Community Notices
Part Provided by HVA E-Bulletin Red Box Project coming to HVA The Red Box Project ultimately aims to provide free sanitary products to young women in schools to prevent them missing their education due to their period. We’re taking this…
Funding Crisis to Hit Borough Council Services
Services provided by Hastings Borough Council are expected to be further cut or discontinued following urgent discussions this month. Council Leader Peter Chowney will be closeted with senior council officers and deputy leader Kim Forward to find more ways of…
Hastings Residents Join Global Day Of Action
Fossil fuel disinvestment no threat to pensions By Dave Young On 8th September climate change activists from Papa New Guinea to Panama called for a transition to a world without fossil fuels. Hastings residents joined Rise for Climate, a coordinated…
NEEDS MUST – County Council Plans To Reduce All Services to ‘Core Offer’
At the Cabinet meeting of East Sussex County Council (ESCC) held on 17 July, councillors resolved to agree the development of a ‘Core Offer’ in line with a report produced by Chief Officer Becky Shaw entitled Reconciling Policy, Performance and…
Hastings Greenway Group
Hastings Greenway Group continue to put pressure on East Sussex County Council (ESCC) following its diversion of funding intended for walking and cycling projects to bail out two over-budget road schemes. “This has caused widespread dismay and anger in Hastings…
Duty Of Care
By Rebecca Whippy On 10 July families of special needs and disabled children protested outside County Hall in Lewes with regard to the threatened closure by East Sussex County Council (ESCC) of after-school, holiday and overnight provision facilities. These have…
Day Centres Closure Confirmed
Leaders of East Sussex County Council have agreed to cease day services at the Charter Centre in Bexhill and the Isabel Blackman Centre in Hastings. The two day centres for elderly and disabled residents are to close following a decision…
From Potholes to Pavements
Dave Young If ever there was a surface likely to cause people to trip or slip in the wet it’s these overgrown paving slabs on Carisbrooke Road St Leonards. Grass and even small shrubs are taking over this sloping pavement,…
Bringing television back home
National TV broadcaster Channel 4 is intending to set up three regional creative ‘hubs’ when it moves outside London next year. Hastings is bidding to be one of them. The bid is being led by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) but…
Welcome back!
Hastings Library re-opens in the Brassey Institute, Claremont After works which have taken over two years to complete and cost over £ million - more than £720,000 over budget - Hastings Central Library will re-open its doors to the public…