Tag archives for Lions Hastings Pier Limited
Pier Friends Call on MP
Members of Friends of Hastings Pier (FOHP), who campaign for a positive future for the landmark structure, met with MP Helena Dollimore a fortnight ago to discuss their concerns that…
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…
Crowdfunder Special
The House Girl As previously reported - Local Housing Co-op to Purchase Gensing Manor? in HIP 230 - Hastings Rental Health (HRH), a longstanding campaign group involving renters, compassionate homeowners…
Pier Company Threatened with Winding up Petition
Lions Hastings Pier Limited, the company which manages the pier for its owner Sheikh Abid Gulzar, is facing a potential winding up petition intended to be brought by former employees…
Pier Pressure
In HIP 201 we reported on the recent victory in the Employment Tribunal of the former Hastings Pier engineers Peter Wheeler and Daisy Hill in their claims against Lions Hastings…
Pier engineers vindicated at tribunal – but how will £68,000 awards be collected?
After a tortuous legal process, the former pier engineers Peter Wheeler and Daisy Hill have succeeded in legal claims for constructive dismissal brought against Lions Hastings Pier Limited, the company…
Hastings Pier: King Canute Lives
The operators of Hastings Pier, Lions Hastings Pier Limited, recently posted a sign at the entrance gates stating: “We would like to remind the general public that the land under…
Closed for Planning or Planning for Closure?
By Hugh Sullivan Sheikh Abid Gulzar gave pledges within a few days of his purchase that free entry to the pier would be retained and that it would be kept…
Pier Pressure
The company which owns Hastings Pier has been ordered by a tribunal to pay two former employees thousands of pounds in unauthorised wage deductions and holiday pay. Emma Harwood reports. Sheikh Abid…