Ore Valley: HoH Bid Rejected
Regeneration company Sea Space announced on 13th November the winner of its competitive tender process for development of a housing scheme on the disused power station site in Ore Valley: not the bid made by the Heart of Hastings community…
ORE VALLEY: Our Response To Sea Space
By James Leathers, Executive Director, HoH The Sea Space board stated they would assess proposals not only on price but against community benefit, site specific matters, financial strength and deliverability. The Power Station site lies between two of the poorest…
Ore Valley: Latest Moves
As anticipated in HIP Issue 135, rival bids for the development of the former power station site at Ore Valley are now being reviewed by estate agents Savills on behalf of the regeneration company Seaspace which owns it. Having set…
Ore Valley: Heart of Hastings Confirms Bid Intention
Prospects for residential development of the freehold site of the former power station in Ore Valley seem to be moving forward. At the end of July, the site was put on the open market for sale by owners Seaspace, the…
Ore Valley On The Market
The acre freehold site of the former power station at Ore Valley, allocated in the Hastings Local Plan for up to 50 units of housing and now vacant after the forced departure of community land trust company Heart of Hastings…
Heart Of Hastings Takes On The Trinity Triangle
Although many in the local community are aware of the name ‘Heart of Hastings’, there probably aren’t so many who know what the Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust actually does. If pressed, some people might be able to link…
Darning the Town Fabric
Last Thursday Hastings Green Party, as represented by Julia Hilton, hosted the first of what will be regular monthly or bi-monthly talks on matters of community importance to the town. Entitled “Darning the Fabric: Regeneration from the Bottom Up” the…
Woodland Walking in the Heart of Hastings
Dave Young Only a few metres from Ore station is an urban green space, an area of lakes and woods on the site of a former power station, once used to power the town’s tramways. Participants on a recent Heart…
Sea Change Waives Rules
By Sam Kinch The future of a valuable publicly owned asset in the heart of the Ore Valley has been cast into doubt after the company in charge of its future regeneration, Sea Change Sussex, breached their own constitution by…
Ore Valley
Community members have been put at the heart of plans to regenerate the old Broomgrove power station site in Ore Valley in Hastings. Recently a group of local activists and residents, under the banner of the Heart of Hastings Community…