WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?
Letter
What the Town Needs
Dear HIP
The Azur is not the name: it is the Marina Pavilion. That ridiculous Teddy’s Bar they built on top should be demolished and the Marina Pavilion brought back to its former glory. Thirty years ago it was lovely going to the bar, then going on the beach. It was great. The Marina Jazz Club formed by Stan Lodder and Michael Monk started at the Pavilion in 1992. It is now called 1066 Jazz Club and is held at the Bowling Club in Bexhill. Not a patch on what it once was, though.
An all-weather Olympic-sized swimming pool, heated by solar power or whatever means of heating allowed year-round usage, would be very beneficial to this town. Where it should be built is the question. We need this for the health of our people, old and young. It would help in keeping people away from the GP surgery and hospital, I am sure. Swimming is a sport you can carry on with to the grave. Walking not so. I have asked Southern Water if they’d pay for it, since they’ve polluted our sea with sewage.
A tidal pool in the sea is not practical because people are getting sick from swimming and doing water sports in the sea, including our rivers, from dumped sewage. Too many people on the planet: that’s the problem with all the sewage. Only wars seem to cure that (to a degree).
Verna Lodder
Letter
Nature versus Development
Dear HIP
Nature and development aren’t opposing forces — they are two sides of the same coin, each vital to our collective future. Thriving ecosystems provide us with clean water, flood protection, and the pollination essential for agriculture; damage them, and we sabotage our own economic stability. Community wellbeing flourishes when people have access to green spaces that heal and inspire, reducing stress and fostering a sense of belonging. Sustainable development isn’t just about meeting housing targets — it’s about creating spaces that respect and enhance nature, ensuring that the places we build today don’t become the environmental crises of tomorrow. To frame nature as a barrier to progress is to miss the point entirely; true progress means building in harmony with the natural world, not at its expense.
Caroline Wiechmann
From our website
How a unitary council can work
My response to HIGs to Oppose Reform Proposals (HIP 276): if every Hastings councillor is a unitary councillor and they all meet half the time in front of the public in Hastings, as the Borough Council does now, and half the time in the new Authority’s centre – they’ll be embedded and accountable locally and able to represent all Hastings’ concerns to their Authority fellow councillors.
Anna Sabin
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