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 […]
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 […]
Frankie Woodgate and her heavy working horses Yser and Tobias returned to Hastings Country Park last week. The traditional method of landscape management involves working horses pulling heavy rollers to ‘bruise’ the bracken. Bruising bracken with horse drawn rollers is an effective, low impact method of reducing the vigour and growth of bracken in hard-to-reach […]
New leisure facilities, a purpose built theatre plus housing, open space and new retail areas are just some of the items on the wish list as Hastings Borough Council (HBC) prepares to launch a three month consultation process on its Area Action Plan (AAP) for the town centre and ‘Bohemia Quarter’. The consultation process is […]
It might seem that it started weeks ago but the official consultation process in to the future of the East Sussex Music Service has only been officially announced this week. A statement from East Sussex County Council (ESCC) says: “A public consultation on proposals to reduce the role of the county’s music service has been […]
Hastings might have been just a bit too creative for Channel 4? That’s what borough council leader Peter Chowney thinks. Responding to the news that Hastings had failed in its bid to reach the shortlist to become on of the national broadcaster’s new regional creative hubs Mr Chowney said: “The shortlisted locations were all larger cities […]
Two of the town’s beaches have been named as some of the best in the country. Keep Britain Tidy (KBT) has given its prestigious Blue Flag Awards to beaches at the Marina in St Leonards and Pelham Beach won a KBT ‘seaside award’. They are two of just 15 beaches in the South East to […]
