Tag archives for Ore
A Shed of Our Own
MEL STEEL The Hastings & St Leonards Men’s Shed is at last the proud owner of the building that has been their precarious and drafty home for the past ten years –…
Development Special: Destroying Green and Pleasant Land
Sandrock Bends Local residents are campaigning to save an area of land on The Ridge opposite Conqueror’s March pub from an estate of 65 houses. The hectare site is listed…
Not in Ore Back Yard
HUGH SULLIVAN Hastings Borough Council (HBC) has launched a consultation on its draft Local Plan – and stirred the residents of Ore into a hornets’ nest of opposition to several…
New Water Outage Across Ore
PAUL MCLAUGHLIN Some 300 households have been affected by new water outages across Ore. Local residents have been reporting erratic water supply and low pressure since mid-April, with many households…
Southern Water– Bad to Worse
PAUL McLAUGHLIN It has been yet another bad fortnight for Southern Water. After being roundly criticised (see HIP 228) over its failure to provide crucial data to an independent inquiry…
Community Composting Comes to Ore
By Rachel Holtom On a beautiful, sunny and crisp Saturday morning, 30 people braved the cold and went along to Ore community centre to celebrate the launch of Hastings Compost…
Think Big, Act Local
North-east Hastings is not an obviously distinct neighbourhood. With a population of around 8,000 residents, it ranges from Down Farm and Red Lake at the north end to the streets…
Community Café – Celebrates Successful First Year
Simone Brookes A local community café, set up to provide affordable, home-cooked meals for those on low incomes and alleviate food poverty in Ore, will celebrate its first birthday on…
More Trains, More Seats, Better Connections
So say Southern as RMT Union prepare to strike again Hugh Sullivan reports In a Which survey published in January this year, Southern Rail was identified as providing the worst…
Appeal for Solar Energy Sites
BY KENT BARKER The Hastings cooperative, Energise Sussex Coast, has won a grant to install solar panels in Ore. Energise Sussex Coast (ESC) is a community benefit organisation set up…
Opening of Hastings and St Leonards Men’s Shed
On Saturday 3rd December, Deputy Mayor Nigel Sinden presided over the official opening of a new community resource, ‘Hastings and St. Leonards Men’s Shed’. ‘Men’s Sheds’ is an international non-profit…
Invest in your community and give from the heart
The Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust (CLT) has been designed to become a “people’s organisation” - owned and shaped by its shareholding members. It is properly democratic because every…
Ore Valley
Community members have been put at the heart of plans to regenerate the old Broomgrove power station site in Ore Valley in Hastings. Recently a group of local activists and…