Archives for News - Page 31
Hastings Hustings – A Sketch
By Max Power It started awkwardly. A soft opening question on which fictional character the candidates would like to switch lives with led to several excruciating seconds of dead air…
CHRISTMAS – The Joy of Giving
Hastings Independent Press wishes all our readers a very merry Christmas. Making Christmas special involves giving as well as receiving, so we are running a feature on things people do…
Holiday Bus Services
Stagecoach South East, the monopoly bus provider in Hastings, has issued service information for the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Normal schoolday services will operate up to Friday 20th…
Hastings Youth Still Striking For Their Future
By Mima Bone Over 100 people gathered on Friday 29th November in Hastings town centre for the latest Global Climate Strike. Organised by UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN), this rally marked…
Three Evenings Of Free Parking
As in previous years, Hastings Borough Council are offering free parking at their central car parks on three Thursday evenings in the run-up to Christmas: 5th, 12th and 19th December…
Jews And Anti-Semites In Hastings The Peculiar World Of Dany Louise
In February this year Old Town ward councillor Dany Louise resigned from the Hastings Labour party citing failure of its national leadership to deal with anti-semitism within its ranks. In…
For Hastings, whatever the outcome
By Jeremy Corbyn Hastings is a special place that I’ve visited many, many times. I’ve been camping in Battle, I’ve taken my family up to the funicular and I’ve enjoyed…
GE2019: Question Time
Many weeks of national as well as local focus on voters in the marginal constituency of Hastings & Rye (Conservative majority 346 in 2017) should come to a head next…
Ore Valley: HoH Bid Rejected
Regeneration company Sea Space announced on 13th November the winner of its competitive tender process for development of a housing scheme on the disused power station site in Ore Valley:…
Changing Hastings
Town Meeting Addresses Housing Issues By Poppy Prescott Last Thursday evening (21st November), 130 local townspeople met at the Hastings & St Leonards Angling Club to hear presentations, research, talks,…
ORE VALLEY: Our Response To Sea Space
By James Leathers, Executive Director, HoH The Sea Space board stated they would assess proposals not only on price but against community benefit, site specific matters, financial strength and deliverability.…
St Mary Loses Its Friends
St Mary-in-the-Castle, the Grade-II*-listed structure built as a church in the 1820s in neo-classical style as the grand architectural centrepiece of Pelham Crescent beneath West Hill, remains one of Hastings’…
Model Take-over?
At the end of last month, following a public meeting, Rye Town Council resolved to close the town’s Heritage Centre on Strand Quay including the Town Model housed there. The…
Flood Warnings
By David Dennis How good are humans at seeing what might go wrong in their schemes? In the past few days there have been several flood warnings issued by the…
Open Letter to Cllr Maya Evans
Solar arrays in Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve By Michael Moor, Chair, The Friends of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve I am writing this open letter in response to your…
Ore Library Re-opening, Community Centre Retained
The community group Big Local North East Hastings (BLNEH), a partnership of residents which dispenses national lottery funds, last week announced a grant of £6,000 to Ore Community Library Group…
Hastings Pier: King Canute Lives
The operators of Hastings Pier, Lions Hastings Pier Limited, recently posted a sign at the entrance gates stating: “We would like to remind the general public that the land under…
A Little Bit Rubbish?
Hastings flat dwellers currently experiencing rubbish collection delays are not alone. The Borough Council’s new contractor, Biffa who took over last June, has struggled to organise and complete collection round…
Sunny Side Up
Local Solar Panels By David Dennis Should we site solar panel farms on greenfield sites? Certainly Hastings Borough Council (HBC) thinks we should. Councillor Andy Batsford has confirmed that there…
White Poppy Remembrance
By John Enefer, Hastings Against War Last Saturday Hastings Against War (HAW) held its annual remembrance for all victims of war at the war memorial in Alexandra Park. Local people, including…
Democracy Is Cancelled!
By David Dennis Successive governments have refused to bend when the public protested. For example, over one million people marched against the Iraq War, but we still went ahead in…
Tight Schedule For Potential £25m Towns Fund Boost
Hastings is one of just three towns in Kent and East Sussex – the others are Margate and Newhaven – that have been selected to bid for up to £25m…
West Marina Awaits Its Fate
But councillor calls for “ideas and creativity” Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is about to complete the grant of a long lease of the former bathing pool site at West Marina…
Bexhill Road: 190 New Homes On A Flood Plain
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) announced last week that Homes England has confirmed its grant of up to £ to develop the first tier of open space at Bulverhythe behind Bexhill…
XR REBELLION Something To Tell The Grandchildren
Marnie Johnson tells Hugh Sullivan how and why she was arrested I feel that climate change is an emergency, a crisis. We don’t have much time to turn things around.…
Bexhill Road – The Case For Development
By Andy Batsford Firstly, I want to echo David’s love of the Combe valley. At Hastings Council as a whole, we recognize the beautiful countryside and rich wildlife that lives…
Humans And Nature – The Dilemma
By David Dennis Hastings Borough Council want to build 190 homes inside their own countryside park boundary on a flood plain next to a site of special scientific ; There…
Council Meeting Opposes Modern Slavery
By Bernard McGinley At a full meeting of Hastings Borough Council on 23rd October, councillors debated a detailed motion proposed by leader Peter Chowney on modern slavery, made immediately topical…
Ore Valley: Latest Moves
As anticipated in HIP Issue 135, rival bids for the development of the former power station site at Ore Valley are now being reviewed by estate agents Savills on behalf…
Two days with XR in London
Two weeks ago I wrote about how I joined Extinction Rebellion. A week later I was making last-minute preparations to join the London rebellion with normal life on ; The…
Clearing The Electoral Field
Fight For Amber Rudd’s Seat Reduced To Three-Way Contest The local Green Party issued a statement last Sunday that it has decided not to field a general election candidate in…
Labour Roots
HIP’s political editor, Alan Bolwell, reports from a Labour Party drive in the key marginal of Hastings and Rye East Sussex College, Hastings played host to a local Labour Roots…
Hastings Bonfire 2019
Tomorrow evening (Saturday) it’s the 25th anniversary of Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s annual torch-blazing procession through the town – the longest single file of blazing torches in the county “and…
Walk-In Centre
The medical walk-in centre at Station Plaza in Hastings will be kept open, re-styled as a Primary Care Hub and offering from December an “advanced nurse-practitioner-led service”. That is how…
Solar Panels Bring Clean Energy And Biodiversity
By Maya Evans Earlier this month the National Biodiversity Network released its shocking 2019 State of Nature report. How many of us realised that one in seven of 8,400 UK…
Roads To Ruin
By Dave Young Anyone walking, cycling or driving around St Leonards can’t help but notice the dire state of the roads; but it’s no use complaining to Hastings Borough Council,…
America Ground “Rejuvenation”: Bid Details Released
As reported in HIP 136, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport announced on 14th September that Hastings has been selected as one of 69 English towns and cities…
Why I’ve Just Joined Extinction Rebellion
By Rod Webb Most people know how we put off what is really important in life, like spending more time with our friends and family, because we are too busy…
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…
New Special School Set For Former Helenswood Site
A new ‘free’ special school, known as The Flagship School, is being planned for the former Helenswood Upper site on the Ridge. On 20th September East Sussex County Council (ESCC)…