Tag archives for housing
MP Questions Nuns’ Exhumations in Hastings
Hastings MP Helena Dollimore has demanded urgent information about the 46 nuns from Holmhurst St. Mary whose remains were exhumed, cremated and then reburied as ashes. Ms Dollimore describes it…
No Access, No Way Out
Commonweal Housing has recently published a report focussing on the impact of the lack of available move-on options in the private rented sector for people experiencing homelessness. No Access, No…
Living the Rental Nightmare
My partner D and I are both 65. He is in poor health. We have lived in our current ground floor flat on St Leonards seafront for five years. We…
New Head of Housing
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has appointed a new Head of Housing whose previous career has straddled the charities and local government sectors. Chris Hancock started his job at HBC last…
EVERSFIELD NOT RISING
Housing hopes set back as building company fails HUGH SULLIVAN Construction work has halted at Eversfield Rise, the estate of 140 affordable homes being built on the former playing fields…
Developers come back for more
Developers Park Lane Homes have already started construction work on the building of 67 new dwellings on land east of 777 The Ridge, following their success at a planning appeal…
Council Tax hikes, budgets approved
by PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Hastings Borough Council (HBC) agreed to raise the local council tax by the maximum amount allowed without holding a local referendum at a fiery meeting of the…
We’ve got the space, so let’s use it
KEN DAVIS from Transition Town Hastings sets out the group’s innovative approach to solving the housing crisis in ; We need more homes, but homes of the right quality in…
Hastings Says “Enough is Enough!”
Simon Hester, Chair of Hastings & District Trades Union Council sums up what’s happening in Hastings and nationally. Hastings marches, 19 November 2022. Photo: Paulo Figurelli When multi-millionaire Nadhim Zahawi,…
Council Plans to Buy Housing for Homeless
By Paul McLaughlin Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has unveiled an ambitious £11 million plan to buy up to 50 properties to provide temporary housing for local residents who need somewhere…
Landlord Licence Scheme Discarded
In what lead housing councillor Andy Batsford describes as “a massive dark and backwards step in the protection of our local families”, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and…
BOOKBUSTER REVIEW
Resist the Punitive State Grassroots Struggles Across Welfare, Housing, Education and PrisonsEdited by Emily Luise Hart, Joe Greener and Rich MothPublished by Pluto Books, November 2019, paperback £ Review by…
Maya
An interview with Maya Evans, Hastings councillor, peace activist and the Council’s new ‘climate change champion’. What does the role of climate change champion involve? My portfolio title is climate…
Where has all the Green Gone?
Julia Hilton of the Hastings Green party has been studying the Area Action Plan (see news story here) which could transform the town over the next 25 years, and wonders…
Grand Plans for Hastings
Residents urged to have their say during public consultation. By Julia Hilton There is less than a month to go to comment on, and influence, the biggest urban development plan for…