There will be NO solar panels on the country park

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 […]

Greenway Group’s last walk of the year this Sunday

The Hastings Greenway Group brings a successful year to a close on Sunday when it stages it’s last walk of the year. The walk gets underway at 1.30pm  from Sandown School and will be a circular stroll around the Ore Valley, walking through Speckled Wood and down to Ore Station, crossing the line and then […]

Greenway walkers enjoy day out in Hastings Country Park

Hastings Greenway Group staged one of its very popular guided walks last weekend, this time heading across Hastings Country Park from the East Hill to the Coastguard tearooms. Greenway Group chair Tony Plain says: “We had about 40 people on the walk…. and it was a lovely day as you can see from the photographs. […]

Our council is committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2030… What next?

In February – thanks in part to pressure from Hastings Green Party and our open letter calling on the council to declare a climate emergency – Hastings Borough Council (HBC) committed to making our town carbon neutral by 2030. Since then HBC has appointed Maya Evans as ‘climate champion’ with responsibility for climate change, biodiversity […]

Protecting Ore’s ‘urban green space’

Ore Community Land Trust (OCLT) has been granted £20,200 by Big Local North East Hastings to progress its plans to buy three plots of land in Speckled Wood in Ore. Speckled Wood covers roughly 13 acres of woodland  in the upper Ore Valley which is the last remaining large green lung in the area. For […]

A walk on the wild side! Greenway Group heads for the Country Park

The Hastings Greenway Group is staging one of its very popular walks on Saturday, this time through Hastings Country Park. The Hastings Greenway Project is an innovative network of linked, almost traffic-free, routes that everyone can enjoy for leisure, amenity and utility walking, as well as cycling and the Greenway Group’s regular organised walks are all about […]

Greenway walk will take in Ore Valley this weekend

Hastings Greenway Group will be walking again this weekend, on Sunday 28th, heading through the Ore Valley. The walk starts at 2.30pm at Ore Station. The walk will then follow the route designated in the Local Plan up to Speckled Wood via Hurrell Road, and returning via Broomgrove back to the station. There will be a […]

Greenway walkers enjoy a stroll through our beautiful ‘town’

There’s little doubt we live in a beautiful town and it’s got everything; stunning seaviews, amazing architecture and fantastic green spaces. Last weekend Hastings Greenway Group staged another of its vey popular walks that guided those taking part along part the route that will ultimately form a greenway route across the town where walkers and cyclists […]