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…
Gardening Guerrillas And Biophiles
Some lucky Hastings residents have been waking up to see flowers springing up in streets where once there were only weeds. Guerrilla Gardeners have arrived. These activists have been appearing all over Hastings and St. Leonard’s, often carrying seed bombs…
Council Meeting Opposes Modern Slavery
By Bernard McGinley At a full meeting of Hastings Borough Council on 23rd October, councillors debated a detailed motion proposed by leader Peter Chowney on modern slavery, made immediately topical by the grim news breaking on that day of 39…
Climate Justice and Modern Slavery
By Maya Evans “Slavery is the culture in other countries,” said Tory Cllr Mike Edwards during a full council motion discussing modern-day slavery in Britain. Actually, climate change is a class issue and an international social justice issue. It affects…
Labour Roots
HIP’s political editor, Alan Bolwell, reports from a Labour Party drive in the key marginal of Hastings and Rye East Sussex College, Hastings played host to a local Labour Roots Rally last Saturday as the party starts to mobilise its…
Solar Panels Bring Clean Energy And Biodiversity
By Maya Evans Earlier this month the National Biodiversity Network released its shocking 2019 State of Nature report. How many of us realised that one in seven of 8,400 UK species (including plants, insects and fungi) are at risk of…
Afghanistan: Hidden Voices From A Forgotten War By Maya Evans
Voices for Creative Non-Violence, £5 Review by Kay Green 180 years of conflict and misery, and no end in sight. We talk about Iraq, we talk about Syria and Palestine – there’s usually a remarkable silence on events in Afghanistan.…
Maya
An interview with Maya Evans, Hastings councillor, peace activist and the Council’s new ‘climate change champion’. What does the role of climate change champion involve? My portfolio title is climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development – it’s a thematic remit…
The Council Has Made A Commitment To Becoming Carbon Neutral By 2030. What next?
By Julia Hinton Back in February – thanks in part to pressure from the Hastings Green Party and our open letter calling on the council to declare a climate emergency – Hastings Council committed to making our town carbon neutral…