HASTINGS DISUNITED
Council Pulls Offer of Tilekiln for Football Stadium Hastings Borough Council (HBC) announced last Friday that it will not proceed with the projected sale of Tilekiln playing fields to Hastings United FC. After almost four years of collaborative dialogue, and…
ATHLETICS: HALF MARATHON
Out of the Running Last Sunday’s Hastings Half Marathon, resumed after two years of Covid interruption, was the 36th. Runners, spectators, charity fundraisers, hoteliers, bed-and-breakfast providers, shoe retailers, and everyone else in Hastings connected with the run – isn’t that…
Change of Hart?
Local campaigners press Hastings MP on Nationality Bill amendments This Friday 11 March the campaign group Hastings Community of Sanctuary (HCoS) will hand to Hastings & Rye MP Sally-Ann Hart a petition signed by over a thousand of her constituents.…
Seafront Rally
A rally organised at short notice on Hastings seafront last Sunday with the aim of demonstrating solidarity with the Ukrainian people under attack from Putin’s troops attracted over 200 people, many donning the blue and yellow colours of the national…
Piano competitors bridge political divide
The Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition (HIPCC), being held for the first time in three years after abandonment to Covid-19 restrictions in 2021, opened on 24 February, the same day as first news reports of the full-on military invasion of…
Council Begs Businesses: Take Your Money!
Last month Hastings Borough Council (HBC) announced that it had received a little over £ from central government in cash grants to compensate hospitality businesses for the loss of custom over the Christmas/New Year period resulting from the sudden surge…
Affordable housing: council cabinet sets First Homes criteria
Under a government scheme introduced last year, First Homes, at least 25% of all future new-built ‘affordable’ housing units are set to be offered at discounted prices to local first-time buyers and/or key workers. Such ‘affordable’ units themselves represent a…
FOOTBALL
“Don’t Get Too Emotional” Gary Elphick, appointed as Hastings United manager in mid-November, has taken them to the top of the Isthmian League South-East Division, though a run of eight wins in nine games ended last Saturday. Hugh Sullivan questions…
Green Lights for Brownfield Housing
Total of 361 homes get planning approval at Ashdown and Darwell Close A meeting of Hastings Borough Council’s planning committee last week resolved to grant planning permission for the plans of developer Danescroft Land to build 151 housing units plus…
Channel crossings: Government and Royal Navy at odds?
According to Border Force statistics, nearly a thousand people crossed the Channel into England on small boats during the first three weeks of January – that’s around three times the rate of arrival for the whole of January 2021. Almost…