Reopening bowling greens and installing new outdoor exercise equipment is the recipe to improve people’s fitness and mental health Conservative member of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) Councillor Sorrell Marlow-Eastwood says it’s time to improve the town’s green spaces and sports facilities and is calling for up to £1m to be spent improving the towns green […]
It’s time for for the town’s council to start to listen to local people and their concerns about plans to put housing on the old bathing pool site in West St Leonards. That’s the message from a large group of people who turned out on Saturday morning to sign a petition calling on Hastings Borough […]
Last autumn Hastings Borough Council (HBC) said it was just weeks away from signing a deal that would have paved the way for a high density housing development on the site of the old bathing pool in West St Leonards – more than six months on that deal has still not been signed. ‘Hastings Council […]
by Susan Gilbert When we stand by the beach huts at West St Leonards and look out to sea, what are we looking at? We can see waves, gulls, clouds; we watch the rise and fall of the tides. Sometimes there are stormy breakers thundering on the shingle, pounding the water to a frenzy of […]
Local residents made it very clear how much they care about their neighbourhood… Working towards a better future for west St Leonards is the key theme of a campaign that has got off to a flying start. The West St Leonards Forum has received funding support from Common Treasury and Locality, launched its campaign to […]
The community that makes up West St Leonards has been brought together in its opposition to council plans for the old bathing pool site and now there are plans to take things a step further a develop a Neighbourhood Plan for the whole area, Bryan Fisher explains what’s going on. The community in West St. […]
Who remembers a local band called The Telham Tinkers? And if you remember the band do you remember its members and in particular Pete Titchener? Pete was born in 1954 and grew up in West St Leonards but in 1991 he left the UK to head down under and it was in Australia that he […]
When a site has lain undeveloped for more than 30 years there’s probably a reason – property developers are not known to sit back and do nothing when there’s a chance to make a few quid! So perhaps there is a reason why the old bathing pool site at the western end of St Leonards […]
Labour has given a ‘cast iron’ pledge to consult every step of the way on plans to develop the old bathing pool site at West Marina, St Leonards. Councillor Andy Batsford, Housing and Leisure portfolio holder, told a packed, and sometimes noisy council chamber on Monday: “We want to get this right. We desperately need […]
