Tag archives for HASTINGS COUNTRY PARK
Grumpy Cook Leaves Bale House
The café at the Bale House Visitor Centre in Hastings Country Park closed over the Easter weekend and will not reopen until a new operator is ; The centre is…
Standing Upfor Nature!
CHARMIAN KENNER explains how we can find out more about vital local environmental issues. The Unite for Nature group is holding an event for everyone in the Hastings area who…
Hastings’ parks retain Green Flag Awards
Hastings Borough Council is delighted that Alexandra Park, Hastings Country Park, and St Leonards Gardens have retained Green Flag status for another year. The Green Flag Award scheme is managed…
News from the Country Park
The Bale House at Hastings Country Park will celebrate an official Grand Opening tomorrow (Saturday) financed by the Platinum Jubilee Fund. Friends of Hastings Park Nature Reserve, operators Groundwork South…
Council to take £1.6m from reserves
Last Friday Hastings Borough Council issued its draft corporate plan and budget proposals for the next financial year (April 2021 to March 2022). It involves taking nearly £ million from…
Conservation Grazing gets a Boost
Cattle have been part of the council management of Hastings Country Park for many years, along with the wild Exmoor ponies that were reintroduced in February this year. The current…
Mixed Messages On Mowing
Hastings Council has been accused of confused priorities following their recent support of ‘No Mow May’ – a national campaign asking people not to cut their lawns in order to…
A Search For “Illegals”
By Charlie Crabb On the afternoon of 8th April, out on my daily walk with my partner in Hastings Country Park, we were approached by two policemen. They asked us…
England Coast Path Plans Welcomed by SEG
In our article “Waste, Potholes and Footpaths” featured last month (HIP 147), we suggested that the pressure group SEG (Save Ecclesbourne Glen) might be less than impressed by the upbeat…
Waste, Potholes And Footpaths
For Councillor Dowling, It’s All Good News Without a trace of irony East Sussex County Council has heralded a huge spike in its collection of post-Christmas household waste as a…
Climate Emergency
Maya Evans Has Her Say In HIP 145 Julia Hilton reviewed the pledges made by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) in its climate change motion passed in February 2019, and concluded…
Wild Ponies Return
A herd of five Exmoor ponies will be returned to Hastings Country Park nature reserve this February. They form part of a mixed grazing system at the Park and, together…
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…
Hastings Country Park To Say Goodbye To Well-loved Ponies
The Exmoor ponies at Hastings Country Park will be leaving us after six years of grazing the slopes and glens of Hastings Country ;The Sussex Pony Grazing Conservation Trust, who…
Hastings Parks Recognised As Some Of The UK’s Very Best Green Spaces
Alexandra Park, St Leonards Gardens and Hastings Country Park in Hastings have been recognised by the Green Flag Award Scheme as some of the very best in the world. These…
Solar Panel Row Grows
The Friends of Hasting Country Park Nature Reserve (FHCP) have complained to the government advisory body Natural England about council proposals to site a solar panel farm in an officially…
Straw Bale Visitor Centre Gets Underway
The new sustainable centre in Hastings Country Park is part of an ‘Up Straw’ project to demonstrate the benefits of using straw in public buildings across North West Europe. It…
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…
READER LETTER: Green Flagged
IN RESPONSE TO ‘Council scoops award for town's 'outstanding' parks’ from issue 107 available here In your 10th August issue, Bernard McGinley questions whether Hastings Country Park should have a Green Flag…
HASTINGS COUNTRY PARK – Going up
Straw Bale Build to Start in August at Inflated Cost Building of the long planned “Interpretive Centre” at Hastings Country Park is hoped to start in August, according to Cllr…