Solar “Harm”?
Planners Challenge Roof Panels In Ore The planning department of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has raised objections to solar panels being installed on the south-facing roofs of a church in Ore and of a nearby school, on the grounds that…
Climate Emergency
Maya Evans Has Her Say In HIP 145 Julia Hilton reviewed the pledges made by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) in its climate change motion passed in February 2019, and concluded that it “does not appear to be taking the declared…
Pier Update:
Council Serves Control Notice, Gulzar Woos MP Following months of complaint from local critics that the owner of the pier, Sheikh Abid Gulzar, and his management company Lions Hastings Pier Limited were failing to comply with planning conditions, building control…
Park Life In The 21st Century
The 100 or so chalet owners of High Beech Chalet Park are individual freeholders, as per the history of the site set out above. The collective services which the site requires - maintenance of the driveways, steps and walkways; grass…
Council’s Climate Pledges One Year On
By Julia Hilton On 13th February 2019 – exactly a year ago – Hastings Borough Council (HBC) passed a climate change motion, pledging to limit its own use of fossil carbon, encourage others to do the same, and set a…
Crippled Badger
A Space For Social Change By Kate Jaggers There are SO many awesome creative people in this wonderful town, all with their own exceptional talent, drive and amazing projects on the go. Our aim at Crippled Badger is to make…
Observer Fervour
OB plans to be launched at public forum this month White Rock Neighbourhood Ventures Limited (WRNV), the local development company which completed its purchase of the derelict Observer Building on Cambridge Road a year ago today, is preparing to submit…
Needy Tenants And Rent Caps
Asked to explain the criteria for selection of future residential tenants at the OB, White Rock Neighbourhood Ventures director James Leathers told HIP that design plans are far from finalised and that the company’s policy “may evolve”. However, at this…
High Beech: From Holiday Park To Full-Year Estate
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines a chalet as “a small wooden house found in mountain areas, especially in Switzerland, or a house built in a similar style, especially one used by people on holiday”. Quite so: the 100-plus wooden chalets…
Help Our Kelp
The details of a new bye-law that will govern trawling off the coast of Sussex from Chichester Harbour to Rye have been finalised by the Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority (Sussex IFCA) after extensive consultation over the past two…