At ten o’clock this morning the gates of Hastings Pier swung open for the first time in over a week and within minutes the public were heading out on to the pier. And it was business as usual as the maintenance team headed below deck to to carry out its day-to-day maintenance, while on the […]
Hastings Pier was sold to the bidder most likely to make it a success and secure its long term future. That’s the message in a document published this week by administrators Smith and Williamson (S&W) that says the pier was sold to the bidder who could, “demonstrate the highest probability of supporting its ongoing trading […]
At a meeting yesterday between Hastings MP Amber Rudd and Sheikh Abid Gulzar the new owner of Hastings Pier assurances were given that entry to the pier will always be free. After almost eight months in administration, the sale of the pier was concluded on Friday. Yesterday’s meeting between the MP and the new owner […]
Friends of Hastings Pier (FoHP) have been accused on social media of conducting a ‘witch hunt’ against the new owner of Hastings Pier, Sheikh Abid Gulzar. It was announced late on Friday that Mr Gulzar, owner of the pier in Eastbourne had won the tussle to secure ownership of the pier in Hastings. Almost immediately […]
Hastings Pier has been sold and the new owner is Sheikh Abid Gulzar the man who has owned Eastbourne Pier since 2015. A statement issued by administrators Smith and Williamson to Hastings In Focus just after 10pm tonight read: “…since the Hastings Pier Charity went into administration we have been working extremely hard to find […]
Like the best boxing match the battle for control of Hastings Pier looks set to go all the way to the final bell with neither side giving an inch and the decision going to the judges. Writing on social media this morning Jess Steele, the woman who reconstituted the Friends of Hastings Pier group in […]
It was organised at short notice but the protest staged on Hastings Pier tonight looks so-far to have been a bit of a damp squib. Hastings is a town of almost 100,000 people yet by just before 7pm tonight only a few hundred had turned up to register their protest at the news today that […]
Is it the end of the line for Friends of Hastings Pier’s attempt to keep the town’s award winning pier under community control? There is to be a protest on the pier from 6pm tonight (Wednesday) organised by the pier’s staff. Staff who have been keeping the pier running while it has been in administration […]
Friends of Hastings Pier have extended the deadline for its Crowdfunding campaign. The fund raising effort was due to finish on Friday at 9pm, however it has been extended to June 30. Under the rues of Crowdfunder if a campaign does not reach its target by the deadline it has set the money collected is […]
