Eco homes for Battle
Design details for ac development, including 70 affordable homes, on the Blackfriars site in Battle have been revealed by Rother District Council. The scheme – 200 properties on a sloping 16 hectare plot, by architects BE Design – will deliver…
DR ENERGY
Welcome to our new Dr Energy column written by the team at Energise Sussex Coast. In each issue of HIP, we will answer your home energy related questions. We hope this column will help everyone to save money and energy. Kate…
What’s on your mind?
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Enhance Your Environment
Free to enter urban design competition Should buildings mimic their surroundings or should they be distinctive and challenge us visually? Hastings Urban Design Group (HUDG) is running two competitions seeking locally relevant design proposals. The primary aim of the competitions…
An Editor’s Welcome
Voicing Thoughts on ‘Thoughts and Voices’ Thoughts and Voices is a new space in HIP subtitled ‘Comment and Opinion on Matters That Matter’ and designed to house, well, exactly this! We wanted to create an open space in which people…
HIP Environmental News
Council protects nature reserves Colin Fitzgerald, lead member for the Environment said: “Hastings Borough Council has protected the very best wildlife areas in the town by declaring them Local Nature Reserves, …high-quality open spaces for our local community to enjoy.…
GE2019
As the General Election approaches, the hustings are bustling, sleigh-bells ring in the distance, and spectres of Christmas past, present and future loom long over the upcoming winter - the time has come to place a vote and elect a…
Flood Money Spurs Council Development
On 8 July the cabinet of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) approved proposals for the first new housing development to be carried out in its own name for more than 20 years – the construction of 190 homes on the lower…
Wonderfill Just One Month In – Already Having An Impact
By Rod Webb Wonderfill isn’t yet a month old but Hannah Robbins, who both owns and runs the shop, is already responding to feedback from her customers. Opened as the first plastic-free shop in St Leonards in response to the…
Not An Overnight Process
MP calls for an end to UK’s unfair allocation of quota Getting a fairer deal for under ten-metre fishing fleets around the country is “not an overnight process” according to Amber ; However, the MP for Hastings and Rye has…