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England Coast Path Plans Welcomed by SEG
In our article “Waste, Potholes and Footpaths” featured last month (HIP 147), we suggested that the pressure group SEG (Save Ecclesbourne Glen) might be less than impressed by the upbeat…
Exercising At A Distance
Last Friday, Kevin Boorman, manager of 1066 Country Marketing at Hastings Borough Council, issued a press release telling “visitors” they are not welcome here during the Covid-19 ; “Don’t make…
Colombia: Don’t Name It
By Michael Watts As a Brit living (for several years) in Colombia it’s been strange reading about coronavirus via the BBC and other British news outlets. I guess that, like…
Hastings Community Transport
Hastings Community Transport has for many years been providing subsidised door-to-door transport for adults in social care and for others too old or disabled, physically or mentally, to cope with…
Letter from Berkshire County, Massachusetts
By Dave Inglis Individual states of the Union have reacted differently to the coronavirus pandemic. In Massachusetts, which I left last week - I am writing this in Hastings –…
US PLANE WRECK
A Time Bomb On Tier 1 Development? By David Dennis On the evening of 31st December 1943, a United States Army Air Force (USAAF) Liberator 24D long-range bomber crashed at…
Wet Wet Wet…
But Mild Temperatures More Concerning “Oh the weather outside is frightful”: there have been many days since last October when Sammy Cahn’s 1945 lyric will have struck a chord with…
What Next?
It was less than three months ago, on 31st December, that China alerted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to several cases of an unusual pneumonia in Wuhan, a port city…
Lockdown In France
By Luther Sullivan I am a British citizen with French wife and two young daughters. Home is on the edge of a village outside Beziers near the south coast of…
Coronavirus: The Conquest Is “Prepared”
In line with national planning directed by Public Health England (PHE), the Conquest hospital has established a priority assessment pod near its Accident and Emergency Department for patients suspected of…
Jenny Lind New Owner, Business As Usual
The Jenny Lind pub on the High Street of the Old Town has changed hands. The new owner, taking over from Linda Challis, is Kieran Canavan, a laid-back Irishman from…
Councillor Glazier
If you want something done, ask a busy man. Such as Cllr Keith Glazier. Starting his political career as parish councillor in Icklesham, and after a business career in heating…
Coronavirus: Getting It Into Perspective
By Kathryn Vale Humans love a plague – it triggers some atavistic terror. But so far the most contagious thing about coronavirus is the worldwide panic attack it has provoked.…
Transport Futures For The South-East: More Road-Building?
Last October, Transport for the South East (TfSE), a forum combining leading local government councillors across southern counties from Hampshire to Kent, with senior representatives of Network Rail and Highways…
Conquest Care Rated ‘Outstanding’
The Conquest Hospital has been rated “outstanding” by the national health and social care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Following detailed inspections made last November and December the CQC…
Waste, Potholes And Footpaths
For Councillor Dowling, It’s All Good News Without a trace of irony East Sussex County Council has heralded a huge spike in its collection of post-Christmas household waste as a…
Ore Solar Panels
Council Officers Overruled By Rick Dillon Hastings councillors have approved a plan to site 30 solar panels on the roof of the ‘historic’ 162-year-old Christ Church in Ore – despite…
A Cycle Of Misdirected Funding?
The government’s statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy published in April 2017 set out the following aims for increase in national cycling activity: • By 2020, increase activity while reducing…
Kim Forward Becomes Leader Elect of Hastings Council
At a meeting of Labour party councillors on 17th February Cllr Kim Forward was elected by them to take over as their leader in the wake of Peter Chowney’s resignation.…
Back Pedallers
Cycle Groups Protest At Diversion Of Council Funding Cycle East Sussex, a coalition of cyclist groups in Hastings, Rother and Eastbourne, is demanding that East Sussex County Council (ESCC) reinstate…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Solar Farms – Half a Step Forward, Two Back
In January last year the cabinet of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) approved a motion to proceed in principle with proposals to install solar energy farms at one or more of…
Peter’s Out
Labour Tributes, Tory Jibes After Council Leader Quits Peter Chowney has announced that he will be stepping down as leader of the Hastings Labour party and as Borough Council leader…
The Man Who Would Be Robert Tressell
Cllr Peter Chowney’s leadership tenure has lasted for nearly five years, arising from the sudden death of previous incumbent Jeremy Birch on the eve of the general election of May…
Labour Party Leadership Part 2: Local Members Vote
While Labour party councillors are deciding which of their number is to take up leadership of Hastings Borough Council, ordinary members of Hastings & Rye constituency party (CLP) will have…
Restaurant Stripped Of Licences After Immigration Offences
Ocean Spice, a restaurant at White Rock, Hastings with the website strapline “Master of Indian Cuisine”, has been stripped of its licences for serving alcohol, providing live entertainment, and remaining…
West Marina – Lease Still Under Wraps
At the full meeting of Hastings Borough Council on 23rd October, Leader Peter Chowney said, in response to a question raised by Cllr Karl Beaney, that a lease to developers…
What Is Extinction Rebellion?
By Christine Harmar-Brown In 31st October 2018 a group of people assembled in Parliament Square in London to announce a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK Government. A couple of…
Bexhill Road: Risks Uncovered
Public Meeting Questions Housing Development By David Dennis The proposal to build 190 new homes on the Tier 1 public recreation ground behind Bexhill Road was reviewed at a pre-planning…
Who’s In Charge?
Arrival Of Electric Car Vehicles Lags In Hastings In the third quarter of 2015 there were just over 50,000 vehicles registered in the UK with ‘ultra-low emissions’ (ULEVs), ranging from…
XR People’s Assembly
Hastings and St Leonards Extinction Rebellion (XRHSL) will be holding an open meeting and People’s Assembly tomorrow (Saturday 18th) at the Quaker Meeting House in South Terrace, Hastings (just off…