Tag archives for David Dennis
Celebrating Past Features
Here we are at 300 issues! HIP asks DAVID DENNIS to celebrate the many feature articles written over the last 299 issues The paper’s name declares its independence, and it…
Historic Revelations at the Edith Festival
A couple of years ago, HIP published DAVID DENNIS’ article on the life of ‘Edith the Swan Neck’. He introduces another Edith Festival coming to Hastings soon. Everyone loves a…
Corrections
Water outflows In HIP 229 we published an article We Just Want to Swim in the Sea! written by David Dennis which included the following paragraph: “Gradually, as legislation demanded…
David Dennis to Head Bexhill Wildlife and Landscape Project
The Bexhill Wild Domesday Project, a scientific evaluation of the natural environment of Bexhill-on-sea, will be launched on 1 June. The purpose is to plan for its future conservation and…
Land speculators move in on Combe Valley
A six-and-half acre plot of land on the western edge of Combe Valley Countryside Park, which used to be a part of Pebsham Farm, was sold off last year. Estate…
Hastings Council Admits Defeat
On 10 March, eight days before its renouncement of the Tilekiln football stadium, Hastings Borough Council (HBC) issued a press release stating that it has decided to withdraw its planning…
Understanding Bulverhythe
David EP Dennis, founder of Friends of Combe Valley, applauds the council’s belated decision to withdraw its development proposal. Combe Valley is the vale of the Combe Haven River. Its…
Local Labour at Odds with Party’s National Policy?
Why is Hastings Borough Council (HBC) intent on building on green spaces within the borough when there are extensive brownfield sites in the town that could be developed instead? That…
JMW Turner Paints Hastings
Millions of people love Turner’s romantic and remarkably atmospheric paintings. He needed money to live, so who were his sponsors? What is his connection to Hastings? How did he develop…
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…
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…