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Reasons To Be Cheerful
MP Says Vaccine Take-Up Should Mean Holiday Easing Covid-19 numbers – for positive tests, for hospitalisations and for deaths – have all been reported on a sharply downward trend for…
Courts Go Slow
By Nikki Coward The main focus during the Coronavirus pandemic has been to protect residential tenants and to keep them in their homes for as long as possible; and quite…
Multiple Voting at May Elections
The Government has announced that local elections for County, Borough and District councillors and for each county’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) are to be held on 6th ; At…
Local Plan: Have Your Say
By Chris Lewcock Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has published its Local Plan, potentially setting the course for development of our town over the next 20 years. It sets out proposed…
The Deal Revealed
The Hastings Town Deal Board has launched its bid for £ worth of funds from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) with a claim that additional investment…
Shopping Channel
Debenhams store in Robertson Street remains closed during the current lockdown. This branch is not one of the several which announced immediate final closure last month. It will re-open “as…
Covid News
Two new vaccination centres have been opened in Hastings & Rother to supplement those at Kings Church (on the Ridge), Sidley and the Conquest hospital. Qualifying residents of Rye, Battle…
Restorative Justice After Goat Ledge Break-In?
In the early hours of Sunday 24th January there was a break-in at Goat Ledge café on St Leonards ; The image of two masked men (though no indication in…
Has History Repeated itself in Hastings?
By Nick Pelling As the Brexit deal reaches the age of one month, there are those in the Hastings fishing fleet who feel the need for a far longer sense…
A Picture On Your Wall?
The Home Office is offering up to £10,000 funding for street artists to paint murals in Central St Leonards. A number of artists have put themselves forward; but the promoters…
Covid Dominates Hastings Health Provision
The impact of increased Covid-19 infections in East Sussex is dominating local health provision and putting huge pressure on its staff, according to Dr David Walker, the Medical Director of…
Out of Step
St Leonards Steps, a pedestrian footpath down the cliff edge between West Hill Road and the seafront immediately to the west of St Leonards Parish Church, has been closed off.…
New Covid Testing Machines ‘Game Changers’
ESHT (East Sussex Healthcare Trust) announced last Thursday that they are now operating new Covid testing machines, which should significantly increase Covid testing capacity and speed up the turnaround time…
Culture Recovery: Round Two
Local arts, music and theatre organisations are bidding this month for a second round of awards to be offered under the government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The formal deadline for submission…
Vaccination Roll-Out:
“Courageous” and “Talent” The Conquest Hospital started its Covid vaccination programme at the end of December. Eastbourne DGH followed suit from 4th January. In each case, first doses were of…
Green Party to contest all wards in 2021 election
Hastings Green party is to field candidates in all 16 wards at next year’s Hastings Borough Council elections. Postponed from last spring because of the pandemic, votes can be cast…
Tiers and Fears
Positive tests for coronavirus infections in Hastings were reported last week to have increased almost fourfold within a seven day period. In the week ending 28th November there were 63…
Brexit Countdown:
World Tunes In To Hastings Fishermen Paul Joy, articulate chairman of the Hastings Fishermen Protection Society, found himself in the eye of a media hurricane last weekend, as the Brexit…
More Reasons to Save the Bathing Pool Site
Rod Webb shares his opinions on the area’s future In June this year I visited the former bathing pool site, realised what an important asset this area of West St…
No Peeping At The Town Deal
The Hastings Town Deal Board were due to meet yesterday (Monday) in private to take what were described as “key decisions” in the preparation of their Town Investment Plan. First,…
£5m Government Funding To Combat Drugs Abuse
Hastings is set to receive £5 million funding from central government to address harms caused by the use and abuse of illicit ; The Home Office has selected the town…
From the Ashes of Ashdown
New home building set for DWP site Ashdown House, the six-storey office block between Sedlescombe Road North and Harrow Lane which has accommodated the clerical staff of the Department of…
Town centre church helps community
Holy Trinity Church in Robertson Street, Hastings, is providing food, employment training and debt advice to those struggling under lockdown as part of the nationwide Love Your Neighbour scheme. On…
West St Leonards campaign continues
Campaigners concerned for the future of the old bathing pool site in West St. Leonards are planning a virtual protest on Saturday 5th December. Save our Bathing Site (SOBS) and…
Urgent help needed for private renters
Trade union, Unite, has called on the government to ensure renters get the protection they need. The situation is particularly acute in Hastings and St Leonard’s with 40% of its…
How Should The Money Be Spent?
Other professionals join Cllr Charman in offering suggestions A GP practising in Hastings Illicit drugs – both those described as ‘recreational’ like marijuana and cannabis, and harder, more addictive opiates…
Home collection for small electrical waste
Old and broken small electrical goods may now be recycled from home in the Hastings ; Items should be put into a standard-size carrier bag and placed on top of…
Give your view on walking and cycling plans
Local residents have until 11th December to comment on East Sussex County Council’s walking and cycling plans. Plan implementation is contingent on central government funding and councils applying for money…
New Arts Initiative Announced
Playing the Race Card is an innovative project to provide artists who identify as black with an opportunity to exhibit their work. Conceived by local resident and community activist, Claudine…
Eco homes for Battle
Design details for ac development, including 70 affordable homes, on the Blackfriars site in Battle have been revealed by Rother District Council. The scheme – 200 properties on a sloping…
Local church gets government lifeline
Christ Church, St Leonards on Sea has received money from the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. It’s one of 450 heritage organisations in England awarded emergency grants and loans, from a…
Frock Up Friday helps forge friendships
In response to the UK lockdown in March 2020, firm friends and St Leonards locals, Bev Francis and Susan Simms, decided to cheer themselves up by starting a Facebook group…
St Lennys on Sea?
An article in The Times newspaper has sparked criticism and controversy from St Leonards residents with Will Stevens’ popular seaside café, The Goat Ledge, in the ; The Goat Ledge…
No Deal For St Leonards?
The Hastings Town Deal Board will meet on 16th November to discuss and approve a draft investment plan for the town to be funded by £25m of government money. Receivable…
Free food for kids
On 21st October a parliamentary motion to provide around disadvantaged children in England with £15-a-week food vouchers during school holidays until Easter 2021 was voted down by the Conservative government…
5G Mast on Queens Road Permission Refused
An application submitted by telecommunications giant, Three UK, for erection of a 20-metre high monopole on the pavement outside Morrisons on Queens Road has been rejected by the planning committee…
Antisemitism: Local and national
On 21st October Hastings Borough Council adopted the working definition of antisemitism developed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The working definition comes with eleven examples that are intended…
MP “Blocking” Landlord Licensing Programme
As reported in HIP 162 (Selective Licensing: Ministry Delays Renewal), the system of landlord licensing which Hastings Borough Council has operated in a number of wards of the town over…
Electric Palace Pleads For Support
The Electric Palace cinema in the Old Town is warning that it may have to let the end credits roll after an 18-year run. Closed between March and August due…
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…