Gateway junction works still stalled
East Sussex County Council (ESCC) remains at apparent loggerheads with its contractors Sea Change Sussex over completion of the Queensway Gateway junction road which is intended to connect traffic from the Bexhill link road to the ; On 16 June…
Azur update
Azur Events Limited, the leasehold owner of the Azur Marina Pavilion, survived an initial winding up hearing in the High Court in London on 1 March. Landlords Sea Change Sussex (the trading name of regeneration company East Sussex Energy Infrastructure…
Azur Time Goes By: A Financial History
In 2004 the Marina Pavilion, then a sun lounge and café on the lower promenade of St Leonards seafront opposite the Royal Victoria Hotel, had been abandoned by previous owners for at least a year and was in a poor…
No Change Sea Change
By Kent Barker Plans to complete – or even start work on completing – the Queensway Gateway to the A21 appear to have been put indefinitely on hold. Six years ago the scheme obtained planning consent and the western section…
Sea Change Stripped of North Queensway Funding
The promise of £ of public funds for development of a commercial “innovation park” on a site off the northern stretch of the Queensway link road has been withdrawn. SELEP (South Eastern Local Enterprise Partnership) had allocated this money out…
Sea Change: More of the Same
North Queensway site set for another £ splash On 8th July SELEP (the South East Local Enterprise Partnership, which channels both public and private funds into economic development in Essex, Kent and East Sussex) announced that it had secured £85m…
Chowney Appears In Perry’s Scope As The First Pre-Election Torpedoes Are Fired
In an article printed in Hastings in Focus, Hastings and Rye Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate, Nick Perry, cited indices where areas of Hastings are highlighted as suffering from deprivation. He stated, “The newly-released 2019 Index of Multiple Deprivation shows Hastings…
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…