Friends Campaign Continues
Ensuring pier’s long term maintenance and enforcement of planning regulations are key objectives. By Emma Harwood The new owner of Hastings pier, Sheikh Abid Gulzar, has erected a wooden hut and applied gold paint to parts of the grade II…
In the Dark
Community group demands answers regarding the sale of Hastings pier. The people of Hastings and St Leonards deserve answers to a long list of questions surrounding the ‘cloudy and often opaque’ process by which the pier was sold out of…
Boycott the Pier in the Hope it Fails Again
I never expected my investment to make a return. It was enough to be part of a community effort to save a historic artifact. There was the added bonus that as the regeneration took place I felt a sense of…
Judge a Man by the Company he keeps
So how did the Sheikh with a string of failed and failing companies get his pier bid approved? “The aim throughout the process was that the heritage asset be sold to the party which demonstrated the highest probability of sustaining…
TIDE US OVER!
Let us manage the pier until the end of December, say FoHP. Emma Harwood reports. As the clock ticks for the Friends of Hastings Pier (FoHP) to persuade administrators to hand ownership back to the Hastings and St Leonards community,…
TRUST IN THE COMMUNITY!
Friends of Hastings Pier look to the Foreshore Trust to back their bid Emma Harwood reports The Foreshore Trust, a charity managed by Hastings Borough Council that owns all the land along the seafront from Rock-a-Nore to Bulverhythe, could play…
Friends of Hastings Pier Crowdfund to Keep Hastings Pier Community Owned
A small community action group is locked in a bidding war with wealthy private investors, and have turned to the Internet for help in their struggle. Friends of Hastings Pier (FOHP) were given a short deadline to prove to the…
PIER FUTURE – Bold Bid on Table
Shareholders and supporters urged to attend public meeting Friends of Hastings Pier (FOHP) has submitted an ambitious £3 million bid to take on Hastings Pier in an attempt to save it from being sold off into private ownership. The group…
The People’s Pier?
KENT BARKER REPORTS: Discussions have been held over possible future community ownership of the Hastings Pier. A packed meeting of Pier shareholders considered whether they might be able to establish ownership of the structure now the Hastings Pier Charity is…