Sea Change Sussex’s Queensway Gateway Road project is not due to come up at the South East Local Enterprise Partnership’s accountability board until March, but important questions have arisen for ESCC as to who is responsible for completing it and for paying for it. The council refuses to comment. Meanwhile another director has resigned from the Sea Change board. Nick Terdre reports.
Hastings Borough Council has taken two important steps towards boosting the town’s supply of affordable homes, following an application by Orbit Homes and ilke Homes to build 140 affordable properties on the Harrow Lane site, while the Council resumed its own career as a registered provider by undertaking to make affordable properties for rent available at York Buildings in the town centre. Report by Nick Terdre, graphics by Russell Hall.
There is a happening new two-part show at Project 78 in Norman Road. HOT’s Judy Parkinson sought out the artist to discover more.
‘XR22’ is a unique project creating a digital repository of the town and its community in 2022. The ‘XR22’ Project is a digital, 3D mass-portrait of Hastings: its town, its culture and its people, using the latest emerging XR technologies – Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, 3D scanning and WebAR. Collaborative venture Digital Arts Hub reports.
Gensing Gardens was officially opened by the Mayor of Hastings, Mr Thomas Ross, on 3 July 1872. 150 years later, the community celebrated the Gardens’ ‘birthday’ by thinking of ways to make it more community-friendly. Over 30 local residents attended and suggestions including bike pods, a compost scheme and a sheltered structure were discussed.
It has variously been referred to as Chinese Whispers, a Conversation and now a Relay; the art of taking a piece of art, sending it to another and them responding to it in their own inimitable way. It is a great way of opening a debate, stretching the artist and creating a body of work. HOT’s Lauris Morgan-Griffiths was excited to see SoCo Artists’ latest iteration, Relay Respond Relay, as they pass the baton from one to another.
Hastings people are never backwards in coming forwards to contribute to those in need. And artists in particular are generous to a fault in putting their creative hands into their studio pockets to help others. Last weekend, they did it again by kindly offering their work for auction to benefit those who have risked unbelievable obstacles to find refuge on our shores. Lauris Morgan-Griffiths spoke to Stewart Walton about the logistics and generosity of his fellow artists.
Sea Change Sussex finds itself under pressure at Selep, its major funder, where the accountability board has set challenging demands on three of its current projects, and raised the prospect of withdrawing funding for two of them. Nick Terdre reports.
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