Las Tapas Rock-a-Nore: Exclusively Spanish
By Steven Short If I might be a little A. A. Gill for a moment (ie start a review by talking about myself for ages): I lived in Spain for nine years and my heart would always sink when someone…
Rock-a-Nore: once the Eco-Nore of the East
Local historian Steve Peak explores some of the ways Rock-a-Nore has been ; Instead of pumping all our sewage into the sea, why can’t Hastings have a recycling plant to turn it into fertiliser? And rather than ruin the countryside…
Fairground Plans Spark Criticism of Foreshore Trust
By Emma Harwood The Foreshore Trust – the charity which manages land from Rock-a-Nore to Bulverhythe on behalf of the public- has come under heavy criticism over its handling of controversial plans to develop and extend the amusement park on…
Marina Proposal Sunk
The Hastings Harbour Quarter company which had put forward a multi-million pound scheme to develop a modern marina complex, including over a thousand new executive homes off Rock-a-Nore, has formally withdrawn its proposal. The idea had been widely condemned in…
A Very Hastings Riot: The story of the town’s iconic net shops
Sheds of various shapes and sizes have stood on the shingle in front of Hastings Old Town for centuries, but it was a council planning decision in 1835 that created the design and layout of the distinctive net shops that…