Tag archives for Town Deal
Frozen Assets – Would a Town Council do Better?
HUGH SULLIVAN Following intended local government reorganisation, a future unitary council – whether it administers the whole of East Sussex or some other territory – will assume responsibility for the…
Scaled Down Castle Project Will Need Fresh Approvals
HUGH SULLIVAN On the Hastings Town Deal website, the project entitled Hastings Castle World Heritage Destination is still described as “our flagship signature project for the whole Hastings Town Investment…
Getting Involved with the Local Transport Plan
HASTINGS SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT FORUM East Sussex County Council, our Transport Authority, is planning for the future with its Local Transport Plan 4 (LTP4), Town Deal money is going to be…
BLOOM OR BUST?
“£100m” for garden town project, but council cuts still impending HUGH SULLIVAN The cabinet of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) met on 6 November to debate a very mixed financial agenda.…
No money for St Mary from Town Deal
HUGH SULLIVAN Provisional Town Deal projects to redevelop the Priory Street car park and the west wing of the Priory Meadow Shopping Centre were withdrawn at the end of the…
OWENS OUT, ATTRACTIONS WITHDRAWN
So what’s left of £400k Town Deal investment? HUGH SULLIVAN There’s been a major upheaval in the management of OWENS, the entertainment centre opened last November in the former Debenhams…
Between a Bomb, Some Rock, and a Hard Place
by MERLIN BETTS St Leonards Church hasn’t had the easiest history. From the destruction of its namesake in medieval times, it took hundreds of years to be built on its…
St Mary: Community groups lodge “expression of interest”
A community “consortium” promoted by Hastings Commons and Hastings Creatives has lodged a formal “expression of interest” in response to the intended disposal of arts venue St Mary-in-the-Castle by owners…
St Mary in the Community
Creatives call halt to disposal, seek link to castle. Under an initiative co-ordinated on behalf of Hastings Creatives group by Glenys Jacques, trustee of Barefoot Opera and long-time collaborator on…
Put St Mary back in the Castle!
Commercial land agents Dyer & Hobbis are continuing to market former church-turned-arts-venue St Mary in the Castle for outright sale or lease on behalf of Hastings Borough Council. However, local…
New Cabinet Posts at Hastings Borough Council
Following removal of the two Green party councillors, Julia Hilton and Glenn Haffenden, from his cabinet on apparent orders from the Labour party’s National Executive, Hastings Borough Council leader Paul…
Preparing the Soil for a Greener Hastings
By Merlin Betts Hastings now has a commitment to become a garden town. Or, at least, one of the seven programmes making up the £ Town Deal aims to make…