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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…
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…
No Asylum Accommodation at Pontins
Following the report in HIP 219 of hotels in Hastings being used as asylum hostels, it has emerged that the Home Office approached Rother District Council and East Sussex County…
Opt Out and Meet The Neighbours
By Susan McFie Many local residents are furious over the dumping of sewage into our coastal waters. Many more are rightly concerned about the spraying of their streets with a…
Bathers Going Through the Motions
BY PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Hundreds of environmental campaigners recently gathered in St Leonards for the unveiling of a mock Blue Plaque to highlight the continued dumping of raw sewage into the…
Heart Surgery Stitch-Up?
Conquest Hospital Loses Out to Eastbourne on Future Despite an outcry by Hastings Borough councillors and more muted objections from within the local medical community, the Conquest Hospital is to…
New Cabinet Posts at Hastings Borough Council
Following removal of the two Green party councillors, Julia Hilton and Glenn Haffenden, from his cabinet on apparent orders from the Labour party’s National Executive, Hastings Borough Council leader Paul…
Greens booted out of council cabinet
By Hugh Sullivan The coalition of Labour and Green party councillors, which has shared control of Hastings Borough Council since the local election in May, has fallen apart. The two…
Cllr Carr: the dissenting party
Green party leader Julia Hilton showed undisguised emotion in her address to the assembled council last week when she thanked Cllr Claire Carr for her work on behalf of the…
Claire Carr Defects to Greens
Cllr Claire Carr, who was newly elected as Labour councillor for Castle ward at the borough council election in May, announced last week that she had left the party and…
How Green are our Councils?
In October 2019 East Sussex County Council (ESCC) declared a climate emergency. It set a target of achieving carbon neutrality from its activities as soon as possible and in any…
XR on the Beach
In response to the G7 Summit taking place in Cornwall on the weekend of 11th to 13th June, the Hastings and St Leonards members of Extinction Rebellion (XRHSL) will be…
Julia Hilton: Green Shoots
“I would vote Green, but you don’t stand a chance”. Green party canvassers have heard this response on doorsteps so many times in past elections, both national and local. Those…
Greening Hastings
Local Green Party leader Julia Hilton will meet Hastings Council cabinet member for Environment, c, on 28th September as part of a continuing campaign against the use of glyphosate weed…
Who Owns England?
By Julia Hilton Hastings Green Party and Printed Matter Bookshop are co-hosting author Guy Shrubsole talking about his book Who Owns England? on Monday 23rd March at pm at St…
Council’s Climate Pledges One Year On
By Julia Hilton On 13th February 2019 – exactly a year ago – Hastings Borough Council (HBC) passed a climate change motion, pledging to limit its own use of fossil…
RISING TIDE – Youth Climate Protest in Hastings
By Mima Bone “What does democracy look like? This is what democracy looks like!” So went one of the vocal and impassioned chants at Hastings’ second Youth Strike for Climate…
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.…
James Joyce Inspires Local Art
Following the success of Hastings Bloomsday, a local celebration of Joyce’s ground-breaking novel Ulysses in collaboration with Hastings Library, an art exhibition inspired by this work launches at Café Rue…
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…
Hastings Housing New Vision Needed
Julia Hilton, secretary of Hastings Green Party, takes issue with the contention of chairman of the council’s planning committee that nothing can be done to increase affordable housing in the…