A pier for the 21st century that was likened to a Roman Forum where people could meet to ‘eat, drink and be merry’ was the vision outlined to the public meeting held last night over the future of Hastings Pier. Adam Wide, the man tasked with dreaming up a creative vision for the pier served […]
Hastings’ Carpetrite store on the Bexhill Road Retail Park is one of the firm’s top performing stores in the UK. The town’s borough councillors were told on Wednesday night that the Hastings’ store was on the firm’s ‘A’ list and was not, therefore, facing closure. The issue of Carpetrite came up when Councillor John Rankin […]
The Harold Place toilets built in the 1980s and closed last year have all but been erased from the townscape of Hastings. Bulldozers moved in last week to raze the the former toilet block to the ground bringing to an end an issue which has been politically controversial in the corridors of Hastings Borough Council. […]
It’s D-day for Friends of Hastings Pier as they battle to keep the iconic Victorian structure in the hands of the community. Ahead of a public meeting tonight at 7.30 in the White Rock Theatre an enthusiastic band of volunteers has taken to radio and TV over the weekend to plead their case. The results […]
East Sussex Football League Division 4 Bexhill Broncos 1 South Coast Athletico 2 On a sweltering Saturday afternoon the Chopbacks travelled to Gunters Lane where Bexhill Broncos had gone unbeaten in the league all season, the battle for third spot was well and truly on. The game started off quietly, both teams trying to poke […]
Plans to close the drop-in centre at the Station Plaza Health Centre and relocate it to the Conquest Hospital do not make sense according to Hastings Borough Councillors. Meeting on Wednesday night they agreed that HBC should write to the local Clinical Commissioning Group which is responsible for the decision, to lodge an objection in […]
As Friends of Hastings Pier battle this weekend to prove they have the financial clout to support their bid to buy the town’s iconic victorian pier the man behind the creative vision for a community owned pier says ‘in a curious way’ that the battle has already been won. In the preamble to his document […]
Hastings Pier should be the ‘epicentre’ of the local community, that’s the vision of the man who has drawn up the creative vision to drive the pier forward. Adam Wide drafted the creative content document which you can read in full below and which underpins the business plan developed by Friends of Hastings Pier. He […]
Perhaps unsurprisingly Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has unanimously backed a motion to bring the Bayeux Tapestry to Hastings when its loaned to the UK by France in 2022. At HBC’s full council meeting on Wednesday Councillor Andy Padmore proposed that: “HBC supports the campaign to bring the Bayeux Tapestry to Hastings during its loan period […]
