Right to Roam – A modest proposal
By Kent Barker For ramblers and walkers the name Kinder Scout has a deep reverence. Hundreds gathered at this plateau in the Derbyshire Peak District in April 1932 for an act of mass disobedience. Angered that the moorlands were the…
Dr Energy
The team at Energise Sussex Coast answer your home energy-related questions to help everyone to save money and keep warm as sustainably as possible. What is the best way to heat one room when working from home? From Tim, St…
Ore continues to Bloom
Local residents have expressed thanks to John Myers, head gardener at Fairlight Hall, for replanting the Ore Sign. John, whose employer supplied the plants, has previous experience planting the parterre carpet bedding at Kew Gardens, so was the ideal person…
Cleaner, safer streets for St Leonards
Tidy Up St Leonards, a Safer Streets project partner, is improving the area for local businesses, residents and visitors. Safer Streets includes Sussex Police, Heart of Hastings, Hastings Borough Council (HBC), the Business Crime Reduction Partnership, Neighbourhood Watch and Tidy…
Put on your walking shoes
1-2-3 Walks East Sussex is a Health & Wellness website regularly updated with direction and printer-friendly maps for short rambles around local green spaces. These are one, two and three-mile routes, intended to help walkers notice nature, enjoy exercise and…
Rag Trade
Recycle and Raise Money is a new Hastings-based, clothes-reuse enterprise hoping to help local charities and schools raise funds. “Clothing has become disposable. As a result, we generate more and more textile waste. A family in the western world throws…
Return to the wild
St Leonards residents Robin and Rachel Holtom visit Knepp Knepp Wildland is an inspirational environmental project near Horsham in West ; In the early 2000s Charlie Burrell and his wife Isabella Tree’s 3,500 acre farm was losing money, so they…
DR ENERGY
Welcome to our new Dr Energy column written by the team at Energise Sussex Coast. In each issue of HIP, we will answer your home energy related questions. We hope this column will help everyone to save money and energy. Kate…
Green homes project
Hastings Borough Council has led a successful bid to the government’s Green Homes Grant fund to help households living in fuel poverty with home energy efficiency improvements. This is as part of a £ million project to retrofit 125 homes…
Rising Seas, Changing Coastlines
By David E P Dennis This odd idea came to me a few years ago – but why would the people of Hastings and Bexhill want to move to Eastbourne? A clue to this puzzle is coastal ; In the…