AS we reported last week work has begun on the new eco-friendly visitor centre at Hastings Country Park. Yesterday Hastings Borough Council issued a press release about the project which we publish here in its entirety. Work is now underway to build a new visitor centre for Hastings Country Park nature reserve. The centre will […]
Environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy is presenting 208 awards to England’s very best beaches, including 71 international Blue Flags and 137 Seaside Awards, with 52 beaches achieving both awards. These include awards to Hastings Borough Council’s beaches at the Marina in St Leonards and Pelham Beach in Hastings. The Beaches at Marina and Pelham join […]
Increased VAT on solar panels is undermining the renewable energy sector at a time when young people are demanding action to stop global warming says Peter Chowney. Mr Chowney – leader of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) and Labour’s prospective parliamentary candidate for Hastings – has hit out at the tax hike saying it puts Hastings’ […]
He concedes it has been a ‘long, slow process’ but Hastings Borough Council (HBC) leader Peter Chowney says he is pleased the council stuck with its plans to build the new Hastings Country Park visitor centre out of straw. The project that will have cost in excess of £700,000 when it is complete will be, “…a […]
A former Mayor of Hastings has admitted charges of fraud by abuse of position and will be sentenced later this month. Paul Roger Smith, 74, of Addington Grove, Lewisham, London, initially entered no pleas to the four charges when he appeared before Hastings Magistrates on April 10th. Mr Smith was a Liberal Democrat councillor on […]
The man who designed Hastings pier has hit out at a decision by local planners to allow a ‘family entertainment centre’ to be developed right in the middle of the Stirling Prize winning structure. In the latest edition of Architects Journal dRMM co-founder and the man behind the design of the pier, Alex de Rijke, […]
Priory Meadow is now one of the most successful shopping centres in the country and has a waiting list of businesses that want to locate there. Figures just out show the centre is bucking the national trend with footfall and sales both growing at a time when many other town centre shopping centres are in […]
In his monthly report to the people of Hastings council leader Peter Chowney has hailed the policy of buying up commercial property a ‘success’ on many levels. Having borrowed close to £50m in the last four years there has been growing interest in Hastings Borough Council’s (HBC) property owning ambitions with many local people unhappy […]
It’s a year since Ore Library closed its doors – the community facility was axed as part of a round of spending cuts by East Sussex County Council (ESCC). Shortly before its closure local Conservatives – during the election campaign for Hastings Borough Council (HBC) – proclaimed they had ‘saved’ the library for the community […]
