Archives for Housing
Council Plans to Buy Housing for Homeless
By Paul McLaughlin Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has unveiled an ambitious £11 million plan to buy up to 50 properties to provide temporary housing for local residents who need somewhere…
Barnett at odds with Starmer on housing targets
HBC council leader Paul Barnett tweeted last week that the abandonment of mandatory housing targets previously being imposed by the DLUHC was “good news”. It would allow Hastings to decide…
Wherever I Lay My Hat: The Hastings Housing Crisis
By Louise Hester Hastings is a buzzing, creative hub, filled to the brim with incredible minds and potential. By very virtue of this, and the fact it is a coastal…
Council Renews Role as Public Housing Landlord
Hastings Borough Council’s coalition cabinet of Labour and Green party councillors agreed unanimously last week to renew its role as a direct provider of affordable social housing. Since 1996, when…
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…
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…
Horntye Park: Housing to pay for sports relocations
Hastings & St Leonards Priory Cricket Club and South Saxons Hockey Club have issued a joint statement in support of the proposed sale of land at Horntye Park for housing…
Private Housing Boom, Public Dissent
Detailed plans for the building of 151 new homes plus a community centre and major supermarket on the former Department of Work & Pensions (DWP) office-block at Ashdown House were…
Housing boom
According to data sourced from the house price index by property investment company Yes Homebuyers, residential property prices in the borough of Hastings have risen an average of per year…
Councillors Clash over Harrow Lane Housing plans: “Ghetto”, “Nimbyism” & “Panama accounts”
Labour and Conservative councillors traded insults at a full (and live) meeting of Hastings Borough Council last week as they debated the council’s plans to build 200 new homes on…
Plans Lodged Housing on Pilot Field
Hastings United Football Club have lodged twin planning applications with the borough council to pursue their intended relocation from Pilot Field on Elphinstone Road to the Tilekiln playing fields above…
Housing For Older Women Going Ahead
By Kate Moran Howch (Hastings Older Women’s Cohousing) is revving up after the lockdown and has good news: we’ve been given the go-ahead for a survey of the site we…
Hotel Or Housing?
Council Cabinet To Debate Town Centre Car Park Development The cabinet of Hastings Borough Council will debate next Monday (7th October) a proposal to develop the Cornwallis Street car park…
Council Horrified At ‘Slum’ Housing Proposal
By Emma Harwood Hastings Borough Council has called for an end to legislation which could see a developer convert a seven-storey office block in St Leonards into ‘slum’ housing -…
Set Up Your Own Housing Co-op!
St Leonards-based artist Emily Johns will be giving an introductory workshop, How to Set Up a Housing Co-op. The workshop will be based on her experience of co-founding Walden Pond…
Visionary Housing Project for Older Women
Hastings Older Women Co-housing (HOWCH) is a community-based housing project that is working towards providing co-housing for women over 50 in Hastings and St Leonards. Following a series of successful…
Hope for Housing
Our community has a housing affordability crisis, but it’s not just about building more homes, rather it’s about the right sort of homes. We should aim to build genuinely affordable…
Housing Inquiry Cancelled
The three-day Public Inquiry due to be heard by a Planning Inspector at the Hastings Borough Council (HBC) chamber next month has been cancelled following withdrawal of the planning appeal…
LETTER: Housing Provision article in HIP
Dear Hastings Independent, Looking at regulation that affects the provision of housing and its condition are all extremely important and should be continually lobbied for. The effect of holiday lettings…
Hastings Housing New Vision Needed
Julia Hilton, secretary of Hastings Green Party, takes issue with the contention of chairman of the council’s planning committee that nothing can be done to increase affordable housing in the…