Back In The Swim
Along with others around the town, Falaise Fitness and Summerfields Leisure Centres reopened to the public on Saturday following the further relaxation of lockdown restrictions. However, their reopening was in part made possible because Hastings Borough Council‘s cabinet agreed in…
Climate Change Programme Board Won’t Meet In Public
In an article in HIP 150 (Climate Emergency: Ambitious Target, “Paused” Programme) in April this year, we reported on the adoption by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) of its Climate Emergency Strategy and Action Plan. The main focus of the Plan,…
Active Travel In Hastings
Are Councils Failing Cyclists? From mid-March, when PM Boris Johnson closed schools and urged people to work from home and avoid non-essential travel, the volume of road traffic fell sharply across the country. It plummeted further when full lockdown was ; One…
Mixed Messages On Mowing
Hastings Council has been accused of confused priorities following their recent support of ‘No Mow May’ – a national campaign asking people not to cut their lawns in order to encourage bees and other insects. “Uncut grass allows nectar-producing flowers…
My Part In Developing Climate Strategy
By Cllr Maya Evans Being part of the team developing the HBC climate strategy has sometimes been frustrating. Many ambitious ideas could not be included through lack of funding and limited power to effect behavioural change in both big business…
Coronavirus: The Lessons For Climate Change Policy
By Maya Evans In a week when the Coronavirus crisis sent millions into isolation in their homes, and the NHS was braced for an influx of patients, Planet Earth sent its loudest warning shot to date – human behaviour needs…
Climate Emergency
Maya Evans Has Her Say In HIP 145 Julia Hilton reviewed the pledges made by Hastings Borough Council (HBC) in its climate change motion passed in February 2019, and concluded that it “does not appear to be taking the declared…
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 carbon, encourage others to do the same, and set a…
Open Letter to Cllr Maya Evans
Solar arrays in Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve By Michael Moor, Chair, The Friends of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve I am writing this open letter in response to your piece in Hastings Independent Press of 18 October about the…
Sunny Side Up
Local Solar Panels By David Dennis Should we site solar panel farms on greenfield sites? Certainly Hastings Borough Council (HBC) thinks we should. Councillor Andy Batsford has confirmed that there are active proposals to site solar panels at Hastings Country…