Category: <span>HOT Topics</span>

Getting serious about the climate emergency

If Hastings Borough Council (HBC) is serious about the climate emergency then it needs to focus on working with others to change national policy, argues Gabriel Carlyle.

Posted 09:00 Monday, Feb 14, 2022 In: Point of View

Greens welcome new co-leader to town

The Green Party is riding high, in Hastings as elsewhere after winning their first borough council seat last May. Newly elected co-leader Carla Denyer was in town last week to meet local supporters and add heft to the campaign to win more seats in elections this May. Chris Connelley reports.

Posted 13:04 Monday, Feb 7, 2022 In: Politics Tags: Carla Denyer Chris Connelley Green Party Julia Hilton

Partygate: No harsh words for PM from leading local Tories

Partygate has divided Conservative MPs, some of whom are keen to see prime minister Boris Johnson go while others offer their support. In Hastings Cllr Andy Patmore declines to comment while MP Sally-Ann Hart shies away from openly criticising the party leader. Nick Terdre reports.

Posted 17:44 Friday, Feb 4, 2022 In: Politics Tags: Andy Patmore Boris Johnson Nick Terdre Partygate Sally-Ann Hart Sue Gray

What does gentrification really mean?

In his final interview Michael Madden: painter, sculptor, restorer and environmental campaigner talks with HOT’s Chandra Masoliver about the politics of gentrification in Hastings and beyond.

Posted 15:56 Tuesday, Feb 1, 2022 In: Home Ground Tags: gentrification Hastings Old Town Michael Madden

Hastings needs a Fossil Fuel Treaty!

Hastings Borough Council could be about to become the fifth local council in the UK to endorse the call for a Fossil Fuel Treaty – an international treaty to phase out fossil fuels (oil, coal and gas). Gabriel Carlyle from Divest East Sussex explains what this means and why it matters.

Posted 19:45 Monday, Jan 31, 2022 In: Campaigns Tags: Fossil Fuel Treaty Gabriel Carlyle

XR demand climate action from HBC

Jane Loftin explains why XR are demanding immediate action on climate change from Hastings Borough Council.

Posted 21:58 Sunday, Jan 30, 2022 In: Campaigns

Bus plans

ESCC has been obliged to write a Bus Service Improvement Plan. To that end our Local Transport Authority says it will build an ‘enhanced partnership’ with the County’s bus companies – meaning they’ll staff up and take an interest. Anna Sabin takes a look at the proposals.

Posted 21:43 Wednesday, Jan 26, 2022 In: Transport

No passenger lift for Council’s upstairs town centre restaurant

A town centre site in Harold Place is the subject of a planning application to itself by Hastings Borough Council (HBC). The proposed restaurant is to be on the first floor, but wheelchairs and prams won’t easily get there. Bernard McGinley is unimpressed.

Posted 21:01 Sunday, Jan 23, 2022 In: Home Ground Tags: 905 application Azur Bernard McGinley cafe-bar CIZ DDA discrimination Harold Place HBC Loungers planning prams restaurant wheelchairs