Tag archives for Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve
What Next for Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve?
ANDREW COLQUHOUN shares the story of how we can trace back human activity on what is now Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve for thousands of years. But Brexit and local…
The CountryPark is 50!
STEPHANIE DONALDSON, Editor of ‘Over the Glens’, the newsletter of the Friends of Hastings Country Park Reserve The clue is in the name - Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve (HCPNR)…
Hastings Country Park Maintains Funding
Hastings Borough Council has been successful in obtaining another 10-year Countryside Stewardship grant for Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve (HCPNR).This latest grant from HCPNR is estimated to be worth £70,000…
Mary Christmas!
The Bale House Visitor Centre in Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve will be inviting children to meet, not Santa, but the even more rarely seen Mrs Claus. A specially constructed…
Rare Plant Thrives
Dumortier’s Liverwort is thriving since Hastings Borough Council (HBC) took back management of Fairlight Place Farm in the Country Park. Colin Fitzgerald, lead councillor for parks and open spaces said:…
Council’s Climate Pledges One Year On
By Julia Hilton On 13th February 2019 – exactly a year ago – Hastings Borough Council (HBC) passed a climate change motion, pledging to limit its own use of fossil…
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…
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…
ENVIRONMENTAL EVENTS
Hastings Country Park secures National Lottery support Environmental charity Groundwork South, working in partnership with Hastings Borough Council, has received a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant of £277,000 for ‘Hidden…
Heritage Assets – Can’t pay, Won’t Pay
Hugh Sullivan argues that Council plans to look after Hastings’ heritage rely on others being persuaded to provide the funding In 2016 Hastings Borough council commissioned a report by ‘historic environment’…