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FOOTBALL: ‘U’s Manager Agutter Surveys Season
POTTERS BAR 1, HASTINGS UTD 3CANVEY ISLAND 0, HASTINGS UTD 0 HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings United finished the season a creditable seventh in the Isthmian Premier League after two final low-key…
IN WITH THE NEW
Green surge in council election shake-up HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings Borough Council will have 12 new councillors when it reconvenes later this month. Eight are Greens; four are ; Naz Montag…
Not a Drop to Drink
Southern Water Faces Fresh Barrage of Complaint HUGH SULLIVAN Around 32,500 households across the majority of Hastings, St Leonards and Westfield were left without water for most of the bank…
FOOTBALL: United League Season Tails Off
WINGATE & FINCHLEY 2, HASTINGS UTD 2HASTINGS UTD 0, WHITEHAWK 1HASTINGS UTD 0, ENFIELD TOWN 3 HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings United will remain in the Isthmian League for another season. Their target of a…
NO LIKELY WINNER
Will Town Elections Result In New Coalition? PAUL McLAUGHLIN & HUGH SULLIVAN This year’s local elections for Hastings Borough Council (HBC) will be held next Thursday 2 May. Polling booths…
Long Term Plan Fund: Meet the Board
HUGH SULLIVAN In addition to receipt of £20 million capital investments under DLUHC’s Levelling Up Partnership Scheme, Hastings has been selected as one of 75 towns to receive another £20m…
Scaled Down Castle Project Will Need Fresh Approvals
HUGH SULLIVAN On the Hastings Town Deal website, the project entitled Hastings Castle World Heritage Destination is still described as “our flagship signature project for the whole Hastings Town Investment…
LEVELLING UP FUNDS RAIDED TO COMPLETE LINK ROAD
£ Cash Gap Plugged out of Awards to Hastings and Rother HUGH SULLIVAN On 25 March the Westminster government announced that Hastings borough and Rother district will receive targeted cash…
DISSENT, DISORDER, DIVISION
Uproar As Mayor Terminates Council Meeting PAUL McLAUGHLIN AND HUGH SULLIVAN The last full meeting of Hastings Borough Council before May’s local elections was suspended and then abandoned last Wednesday…
Affordable Homes Dropped from ‘Greener’ Building Scheme
HUGH SULLIVAN A 200-unit housing development at Blackfriars, to the east of Battle Station, for which outline planning permission was granted in 2020, is to go ahead. But an original…
FOOTBALL: Cruttwell Returns
HASTINGS UNITED 1, BILLERICAY TOWN 1HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings United matched play-off rivals Billericay Town in an absorbing contest at Pilot Field last Saturday - their first competitive action since 13 February…
FOOTBALL: Home Comfort for United
20 January:Carshalton Athletic 2, Hastings Utd 1 27 January:Hastings Utd 2, Hashtag Utd 0 HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings United’s ten-match unbeaten run came to an end on 20 January when they…
MIXED RECEPTION FOR TOWN CENTRE RE-DESIGN
HUGH SULLIVAN A preliminary re-design of Hastings Town Centre was unveiled at a Town Deal Board meeting last week, then presented in the central hub of Priory Meadow shopping centre…
What’s to be Done About Housing?
HUGH SULLIVAN The economics of the housing crisis in Hastings are easy to summarise: too much demand, not enough supply. The result: a rise in house prices, currently curtailed by…
Staying in the Borough
Town sports clubs’ move to Claremont School “won’t proceed” Hugh Sullivan The plan to relocate the town’s prime cricket and hockey clubs from Horntye Park to Claremont School appears to…
BARNETT’S BLUE MONDAY TURNS GREEN
HUGH SULLIVAN and PAUL McLAUGHLIN The third Monday of January has come to be coined as Blue Monday – the most depressing day of the year in the UK measured…
Labour Pulled Apart
Rebel Group Quit Party But Still Lead Council HUGH SULLIVAN On 13 December a full meeting of Hastings Borough Council approved budget proposals for 2024-25 aimed at saving around £4m,…
TEAM SPORTS – 2023: Highs and Lows of the Competitive Year
HUGH SULLIVAN Football It’s been a tumultuous year off the field for Hastings United. The quashing of the long-pursued ambition of owners Daren Burney and Peter Sherlock to relocate the…
Council Presses for Investigation Into Conduct of Pier Company
HUGH SULLIVAN Lions Hastings Pier Limited, the company which was managing the pier for its owner Sheikh Abid Gulzar, was put into voluntary liquidation in August this year. Its debts…
FOOTBALL: Down, Up, Down
18 November:Enfield Town 3, Hastings Utd 121 November:Hastings Utd 4, Carshalton Athletic 025 November:Hastings Utd 0, Canvey Island 2HUGH SULLIVAN In a fortnight of mixed fortunes for the Hastings United…
THIN TUESDAY
Arts Council Refuses Funding for February Event HUGH SULLIVANThe Directors of Hastings Fat Tuesday CIC (HFT) announced this week that their flagship grassroots music festival, held annually on Shrove Tuesday…
West Hill Road Landslide –Whose Responsibility?
HUGH SULLIVAN On Sunday 5 November, after days of heavy rain, there was a slide of rock, debris and mud down the slope below West Hill Road that affected one…
FOOTBALL: United Resume Winning Ways
4 November:Hashtag Utd 1, Hastings Utd 211 November:Hastings Utd 3, Kingstonian 2HUGH SULLIVAN How much of sport is talent, how much is work, how much luck, how much self-belief? Supporters…
FOOTBALL: Agutter’s Return to Pilot Field Delayed by Rain
21 October:Billericay Town 2, Hastings Utd 024 October:Margate 1, Hastings Utd 228 October:Hastings Utd v Carshalton Athletic postponedHUGH SULLIVAN Hastings United have sacked their manager Paul Barnes, appointed only in…
FORSAKEN CAFE TO BE OFFERED FOR CASTLE PROJECT
HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings Borough Council (HBC) announced on 3 October that it has “taken back possession” of the West Hill Café. It is understood that this was the outcome of…
Hastings Rally Proclaims Solidarity with People of Gaza
HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings & Rye Palestine Solidarity Campaign Reactions to the news of the carnage being suffered in Israel and Gaza over the past fortnight have been divided, both nationally…
Queensway Gateway: Is Council Awaiting LEP Abolition?
HUGH SULLIVAN The Accountability Board of SELEP (South East Local Enterprise Partnership), which channels government funds into local infrastructure projects, is due to meet again today (Friday) for its quarterly…
WHAT’S UP AT OWENS?
Mixed messages to staff and public after sudden closure HUGH SULLIVAN In the week beginning 4 September Owens, the entertainment centre operating in the former Debenhams store in Robertson Street,…
Northeye: Back to Lock and Key
HUGH SULLIVAN As anticipated in HIP 232 (Changing of the Guard?), the Home Office are now proposing to use the former prison site at Northeye, Bexhill for detention of people…
A New GP Service: Private and Remote
HUGH SULLIVAN GPs have been the gatekeepers of the British medical system since the advent of the NHS 75 years ago. Access to medical help should come initially, save in…
Council Finances Suffer Further Pain
Likely staff salary inflation will add to deficit HUGH SULLIVAN The cabinet of Hastings Borough Council held session on Monday evening to review the latest forecasts of the council’s future…
Hotel Costs Soar But Council “Committed”
HUGH SULLIVAN The construction of a Premier Inn hotel on the former Cornwallis Street car park site owned by Hastings Borough Council (HBC), politically controversial since it was first mooted…
CRICKET:Stuttering Priory Seal Division 2 Title
26 August:Worthing 132 for 9; Hastings Priory 135 for 32 September:Brighton & Hove 98; Hastings Priory 99 for 8HUGH SULLIVAN The cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory were celebrating…
CRICKET: Priory Pursue Promotion
12 August:Chichester Priory Park 123; Hastings Priory 127 for 619 AugustWest Chiltington & Thakeham 128; Hastings Priory 129 for 6HUGH SULLIVAN The cricketers of Hastings & St Leonards Priory have…
FOOTBALL: United Unbeaten in Opening Games
HUGH SULLIVAN Fielding an almost entirely new line-up of players, Hastings United have started the new Isthmian League season in a mood that suggests they can build the trust of…
REPORT PROMPTS COUNCIL SELL-OFF
HUGH SULLIVAN A meeting of the cabinet of Hastings Borough Council on Monday evening approved the sell-off of four property assets. Amongst them are two plots of land – at…
POLE POSITIONS APPROVED
5G Masts Getting the Nod From Council Planners HUGH SULLIVAN Dave YoungHalton mast Seven separate planning applications have been approved by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) over the past 13 months…
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…
NEW ACT AT WHITE ROCK?
HUGH SULLIVAN The cabinet of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is scheduled to debate the future of the White Rock Theatre at its meeting on Monday evening, 3 ; It appears…
TENNIS: Championship Final Turns on Broken String
HUGH SULLIVAN Anthony HickeyFinal handshake: Soucek in blue, Preece in red The Amherst Club held its annual club championships this month under a change of format which produced high quality…