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 manages the ponies, has told the council that they are…
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 green spaces are among a record-breaking 1,970 UK parks and…
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 designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Last May HBC suggested…
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 will be home to information about the park: its geology,…
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 Hastings Heritage’. Taking place across Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve…
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 award given the landslip in Ecclesbourne Glen, the closure of…
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 Colin Fitzgerald, environment portfolio holder at Hastings Borough Council (HBC):…