Convent future under debate
Opponents of the proposed redevelopment of the convent site in Magdalen Road, St Leonards, have called a meeting to be held in the White Rock Hotel on Sunday 3 February at 3pm.
Here they will discuss alternatives to the plan for a high-density residential development involving 165 dwellings put forward by the Goicolea family of Spain which owns the site.
The Local Development Framework scheme may offer a way forward, opening the possibility of having the site designated as private open space and the grounds to the north, where the new dwellings will be sited, removed from allocation to housing, according to Maureen Jarvis, one of the opponents of the Goicolea plan.
Such a proposal could be made as part of the LDF public consultation which started on 3 February and will run to 27 April. In this connection an exhibition will be held from 10am to 1pm on Wednesday 8 February at the Gensing and Central St Leonards Community Centre.
Happiness for Hastings!
A new group has formed to promote happiness throughout the town… Hastings Happy Crew formed in July this year, inspired by the launch of the national ‘Action for Happiness’ campaign and modelled on the pilot scheme run in Bristol …
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A new library at last!
Fantastic news was announced this week by East Sussex County Council. They have purchased 12 Claremont, the property next door to the existing library. This will allow refurbishment of The Brassey Institute building and re-locating the Children’s …
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Hastings Anti-cuts campaigners call rally and march to support pension cut strikes.
On Wednesday 30 November, the main teaching, civil service and local government unions are due to strike against pension cuts. Unions say these cuts will leave the average worker paying a …
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Mayor on peace duty
Mayor Kim Forward and Deputy Mayor Alan Roberts visited Grosvenor House Care Home to mark the International Day of Peace on 21 September. As members of the Mayors for Peace movement, ratified by Hastings Borough Council, they spoke to the …
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A wet and wonky welcome
A wet and windy start for the inaugural meeting of the Wonky WI – but if you thought this may have been a damp squib then think again. Nearly 70 interesting, engaging, intelligent and feisty women turned …
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Hiroshima remembered
Local anti-war activists Hastings Against War were delighted when up to 100 people gathered in Alexandra Park to commemorate Hiroshima Day recently, writes John Enefer. Hiroshima Day on 6 August is marked around the world and recalls the atomic bomb …
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People’s Pier seeks inspirational leader
Earlier this year, the Hastings Pier and White Rock Trust secured a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £357,000 to set up a feasibility study for the future of Hastings Pier. If this process is successful, it will …
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Anti-dog poo campaign goes Guerilla!
If Dick Whittington visited Hastings and Saint Leonards, he’d be sad to find the streets were paved not with gold, but with dog muck. Dog-fouling isn’t just unsightly and unhygienic, it can lead to tragic and expensive …
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While the council fiddles, Archery Ground suffers – and at times burns.
Waiting for Gladedale
The council’s failure to set any deadline for Gladedale Estates to respond to its criticisms of the developer’s amended proposal for redeveloping the Archery Ground has prompted …
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Hastings Friends of Yatma
ROS MEADOW writes
In Palestine, our visitors Amena and Ra’ida have been doing feedback sessions from their visit here on and around Mothers’ Day at that end (which was 21st March). In Abu Dis/ Aizariya, I’m told …
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