More charging points for electric vehicles (EVs) are on their way for Hastings. On Tuesday members of Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) ruling cabinet approved spending of £35,000 to install charging points in Priory Street and in the Carlisle underground car parks. For Councillor Maya Evans, the cabinet’s climate change champion the investment in charging points […]
Are new charging points for electric cars being installed on the seafront actually up to the job? Owners of electric vehicles have been in touch to say the points that have been installed by Hastings Borough Council, combined with the restrictions on how long you can park beside one, make them virtually useless. Paul Cockerton […]
Criticism is mounting over what is being described as a lack of transparency and willingness to communicate at Hastings Borough Council (HBC). The criticism is not just coming from politicians but from campaigners, former councillors and members of the public too. Liberal Democrat Nick Perry says: “I am increasingly aware from various different local sources […]
Last year then council leader Peter Chowney said climate change was “The biggest challenge facing the council.” Just 15 months after passing what was seen to be a radical climate emergency motion and appointing a special cabinet member with responsibility for climate change there’s grave concern this week that Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is back […]
“I thank – from behind tears of joy – everyone who has helped in this campaign…” Michael Moor Chair, The Friends of Hastings Country Park. Officially the borough council’s decision to abandon its plans to site solar panels on Hastings Country Park and Nature Reserve was down to a ‘review’ being carried out by the […]
There will be no solar panels on Hastings Country Park and Nature Reserve, Hastings Borough Council has announced this afternoon it is abandoning plans first put forward in January last year. It was at a council cabinet meeting in January 2019 that councillors agreed to spend more than £80,000 investigating the possibility of housing ground […]
Earlier this week Hastings’ Green party issued a press release critical of Hastings Borough Council’s ruling Labour group over what they perceived to be the council’s lack of action over climate change, even going so far as to brand last year’s climate emergency motion as ‘tokenism’. Today, almost exactly a year on from the passing […]
“So far the climate emergency motion feels very much like tokenism from a council determined to carry on with business as usual.” A year after Hastings Borough Council (HBC) declared a climate emergency, the town’s Green Party has condemned the authority for its lack of action. The climate emergency motion was passed unanimously by HBC’s […]
