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Jess Steele Steps Down as CEO of Hastings Commons
Jess Steele has resigned from her role as Chief Executive of Hastings Commons, the community-led project behind the revival of several derelict buildings across the town. She had been CEO…
Can’t Run On Empty
Youth Commons Pleads for More Revenue Fundingto Avoid Closure HUGH SULLIVAN In January 2023 Hastings Commons was awarded £ million of public and charitable funds for investment in youth infrastructure…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Letter Trinity Triangle: Jess Steele Responds Dear HIP In response to Alex Moojen’s letter in HIP 249 about the Trinity Triangle High Street Heritage Action Zone (TTHAZ) programme, we would…
WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
from our website Jess Steele: Questions to be asked Is your article Jess Steele, Community Entrepreneur in HIP 244 what passes for fearless, independent journalism then? Not for the first…
Jess Steele, Community Entrepreneur
HUGH SULLIVAN In an era of squeezed public finances, soaring construction costs and wasting infrastructure, the renovation of buildings around Cambridge Road by the Hastings Commons (HC) group of trusts…
No money for St Mary from Town Deal
HUGH SULLIVAN Provisional Town Deal projects to redevelop the Priory Street car park and the west wing of the Priory Meadow Shopping Centre were withdrawn at the end of the…
St Mary in the Community
Creatives call halt to disposal, seek link to castle. Under an initiative co-ordinated on behalf of Hastings Creatives group by Glenys Jacques, trustee of Barefoot Opera and long-time collaborator on…
Put St Mary back in the Castle!
Commercial land agents Dyer & Hobbis are continuing to market former church-turned-arts-venue St Mary in the Castle for outright sale or lease on behalf of Hastings Borough Council. However, local…
Observe the Observer!
Restored building set for viewings, leases offered from August After nearly three years of renovation works the Observer Building on Cambridge Road will begin to reopen in August this year. Hastings…
Changing Hastings
Town Meeting Addresses Housing Issues By Poppy Prescott Last Thursday evening (21st November), 130 local townspeople met at the Hastings & St Leonards Angling Club to hear presentations, research, talks,…
Ore Valley On The Market
The acre freehold site of the former power station at Ore Valley, allocated in the Hastings Local Plan for up to 50 units of housing and now vacant after the…
The Observer Building: A New Future Unveiled
White Rock Neighbourhood Ventures (WRNV) have announced they have exchanged contracts to purchase the Observer Building at 53 Cambridge Road for a total price of £ ; WRNV is a…
Friends of the Pier: “We’ll be here when the time comes”
Friends of Hastings Pier (FoHP), the community group whose bid to buy the pier in June was unsuccessful, remain buoyant despite the withdrawal from frontline action of two leading activists,…
Darning the Town Fabric
Last Thursday Hastings Green Party, as represented by Julia Hilton, hosted the first of what will be regular monthly or bi-monthly talks on matters of community importance to the town.…
Council Versus Community
Observer Building Rejected As Community Asset. By Emma Harwood An application by a local charity to register the former Observer building as an asset of community value has been turned…
TRUST IN THE COMMUNITY!
Friends of Hastings Pier look to the Foreshore Trust to back their bid Emma Harwood reports The Foreshore Trust, a charity managed by Hastings Borough Council that owns all the…
On The Rocks or on a Roll?
Pier sale is challenged by revived community group EMMA HARWOOD REPORTS The agent responsible for finding a buyer for Hastings Pier –who claims to have been involved with the sale…
Pier Sale: The Story Continues
Emma Harwood reports Last November, when the Pier Charity went into administration, its principal creditor the Heritage Lottery Fund agreed to fund fees and expenses for a further twelve month…
The People’s Pier?
KENT BARKER REPORTS: Discussions have been held over possible future community ownership of the Hastings Pier. A packed meeting of Pier shareholders considered whether they might be able to establish…