Tag archives for Rother District Council
Permissions Sought for 471 Greenfield Homes
HUGH SULLIVAN Outline planning applications have been lodged with Rother District Council for the building of two adjacent housing estates off Ninfield Road, Bexhill. The estates are aimed to encompass…
Colonnade Traders Fear Uncertain Future After Cafe Closes
JOEL CHESHIRE The cafe at the Bexhill Colonnade will not now reopen. Its operators are shutting the doors for good after months of refurbishment disruption and mounting uncertainty over the…
NEWS IN BRIEF
Teenage Educational Centre at Former Debenhams Building Planning permission has been granted by Hastings Borough Council for an area on the first and second floor of the former Debenhams store…
No Favours from Rother DC for Colonnade Traders
HUGH SULLIVAN The Bexhill Colonnade, which accommodates a parade of independent shops and cafes along the seafront promenade immediately below the De La Warr Pavilion, is to undergo extensive renovation…
Council Lane Rental Scheme Ignores A21 Disruption
HUGH SULLIVAN East Sussex County Council (ESCC) has announced that it will impose a Lane Rental Scheme on contractors and utility companies undertaking future work on the busiest roads in…
No Housing on High Weald Site
A planning inspector has upheld a decision of Rother District Council to refuse permission to build housing on the site of a former plant nursery at Whatlington which is adjacent…
End Game For Local Councils
PAUL McLAUGHLIN The Councils of Hastings Borough, Rother District and East Sussex County are set to be to be abolished. Taking their place, probably by 2028, will be a new…
Home Office Set to Release Northeye Site
HUGH SULLIVAN A senior civil servant at the Home Office confirmed last week that the former prison premises of Northeye on the outskirts of Bexhill are no longer being considered…
Councils Objectto Solar Farm in Crowhurst
HUGH SULLIVAN Local green energy co-operative Energise Sussex Coast (Energise) has lodged a planning application with Rother District Council, seeking its approval of a prospective solar farm off Swainham Lane…
The Hub and the Pavilion
HUGH SULLIVAN The distance between Sidley Recreation Ground and the De La Warr Pavilion (DLWP) on Bexhill seafront is around a mile and a half. Historically and culturally, it has…
LEVELLING UP FUNDS RAIDED TO COMPLETE LINK ROAD
£ Cash Gap Plugged out of Awards to Hastings and Rother HUGH SULLIVAN On 25 March the Westminster government announced that Hastings borough and Rother district will receive targeted cash…
Affordable Homes Dropped from ‘Greener’ Building Scheme
HUGH SULLIVAN A 200-unit housing development at Blackfriars, to the east of Battle Station, for which outline planning permission was granted in 2020, is to go ahead. But an original…
Staying in the Borough
Town sports clubs’ move to Claremont School “won’t proceed” Hugh Sullivan The plan to relocate the town’s prime cricket and hockey clubs from Horntye Park to Claremont School appears to…
How Green is Local Labour?
DAVID EP DENNIS argues that the environmental agenda of the Labour council in Hastings is at odds with the national policies of the Labour Party … potentially to the serious…
Northeye Purchase: £9m Private Profit Revealed
Jeff Newnham A private finance enterprise, Brockwell Group Bexhill LLP (BGB), has made an astonishing profit in its dealings over the former Northeye prison site on the western edge of…
All Rise
As well as being a regular HIP contributor, DAVID EP DENNIS has been appointed as Project Manager for Bexhill-on-Sea Town Council’s Wild Domesday Project. One of his main areas of…
Normanhurst Plans for Holiday Lodges Dismissed
At a meeting on 7 September, the Planning Committee of Rother District Council refused outline permission for the development of a major holiday complex on the Normanhurst estate, north of…
Northeye: Back to Lock and Key
HUGH SULLIVAN As anticipated in HIP 232 (Changing of the Guard?), the Home Office are now proposing to use the former prison site at Northeye, Bexhill for detention of people…
Icklesham Celebrates New Affordable Housing
On 14 July the community of Icklesham celebrated the completion of 15 new-built affordable homes on the edge of the village - 12 for social rent, three for shared ownership.…
Progressive FlagFlies Over Sussex
The Progressive Pride flag was flown over Hastings and Bexhill Town Halls earlier this month to mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). HRRA The iconic…
Tory Fear, Labour Cheer
PAUL McLAUGHLIN It may have escaped the attention of some folk in Hastings, but last week voters across England went to the polls in the largest round of local elections…
Northiam – Exercises in Democracy
HUGH SULLIVAN Ballots for membership of parish councils up and down the country were scheduled to be held on 4 May, the same day as other local elections. In most…
£30 parking charge at Camber Sands
Rother District Council’s cabinet has resolved to impose a flat fee of £30 per day for parking a car in the main car park at Camber Sands this summer –…
Deterred or Detained?
Former Bexhill Prison Site to House Cross-Channel Arrivals HUGH SULLIVAN The former Category C prison of Northeye, on the western fringe of Bexhill, was one of three sites publicly identified…
Normanhurst fight hots up
The application by Greystoke Land Limited for outline planning permission to build up to 211 holiday lodges on the Normanhurst estate north of Catsfield has attracted scores of local objections,…
Proposed development at Normanhurst
An application for outline planning permission has been lodged with Rother District Council for the development of up to 211 holiday lodges and 350 car parking spaces at the Normanhurst…
No Asylum Accommodation at Pontins
Following the report in HIP 219 of hotels in Hastings being used as asylum hostels, it has emerged that the Home Office approached Rother District Council and East Sussex County…
Azur Company Faces Winding-Up Order (Again)
by HUGH SULLIVAN The future of the Azur Marina Pavilion on St Leonards seafront will be at stake next Wednesday 1 March in the High Court in London. The company…
Bulverhythe Sewage Clean-up
BY SUSAN MCFIE AND KENT BARKER Days after a mains pipe burst in Bulverhythe, flooding local homes with sewage, Southern Water were still involved in a massive clear-up operation. Dozens…
Youth Speak Out Against Violence
Merlin Betts considers Hastings and Rother Safer Community Partnerships’ latest effort to educate and inform people about domestic violence. Hastings and Rother District Councils and White Ribbon UK recently teamed…
Path clearance at Normanhurst “in breach of TPO”
A complaint has been made to Rother District Council that prospective developers of the Normanhurst estate north of Catsfield have cut a track through historic woodland in breach of a…
Fairlight sees off development plan – for now
Residents of Fairlight Cove were toasting Rother District Council and a public planning inspector last week when the news came through. The appeal by developers against refusal of their application…
Plans submitted for new mental health hospital
The Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which is responsible for mental health services across the county, has submitted a detailed planning application to Rother District Council to build a new…
Bexhill Comes Alive with Light
A brand new free light art festival comes to Bexhill on Saturday 29 January Bexhill After Dark, produced by local events company, 18 Hours, will feature 11 light-art installations around…
Industrial Exports Versus Nature Reserve
Planning Collision at Rye Harbour Churchfields is a longstanding industrial site at Rye Harbour. Prior to a fire in 2008, the site buildings were occupied by a furniture manufacturer. Enter…
Bexhill Road: 190 New Homes On A Flood Plain
Hastings Borough Council (HBC) announced last week that Homes England has confirmed its grant of up to £ to develop the first tier of open space at Bulverhythe behind Bexhill…
Doc Of The Bay
The Smuggler pub at Pett Level, which has been shut for the past two years, will not re-open. Following a successful planning application for change of use, made by Hastings…
Regime Change at Rother: The First Hundred Days
Doug Oliver has enjoyed his first hundred days as leader of Rother District Council. The previous Conservative administration, ousted in elections across the board in May, had been, in his…
Wanted: Renewal Of Planned Public Investment – But “No Sign” Of It From Current Government, Says Chowney
Hastings Borough Council leader Peter Chowney has used the August holiday period to post a website report on the history of “regeneration” of the town over the past two decades…
Marshlink Rail Upgrade Stuck On Amber
Since her arrival as constituency MP in 2010, Amber Rudd has consistently talked up the prospect of local railway stations of Bexhill, Hastings and Rye getting a fast connection to…