
20’s plenty in residential areas
Love our Streets! Make 20mph the default speed on our residential streets across Hastings and St Leonards where we live, work, shop, play and learn. HOT’s
Love our Streets! Make 20mph the default speed on our residential streets across Hastings and St Leonards where we live, work, shop, play and learn. HOT’s
HOT has asked the four local parties for a brief rundown of their policies and reasons why you should vote for them. Here is the response from the Green Party, who marked their election campaign launch last month with a visit from MP Caroline Lucas.
Hastings Green Party launched its campaign for the May council elections with an action day and a VIP visit from Brighton Pavilion MP, Caroline Lucas, who joined candidates and supporters for a walkabout in target wards on 19 March. HOT’s Chris Connelley tagged along.
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.
The Green Party’s Cllr Julia Hilton has added her voice to the many objections lodged against Sea Change Sussex’s plan to develop the North Queensway Innovation Park, complaining of the council’s lack of scrutiny of the company. Meanwhile Sea Change envisages having the Queensway Gateway road in operation by November, and has been granted funding for the Bexhill Enterprise Park North. Nick Terdre reports.
In a town where the prospect of upsets in the upcoming local elections is generally remote, it is the Old Hastings ward where the likelihood looks greatest, following the Greens’ narrow loss to Labour in 2018. Chris Connelley has been out with both parties’ candidates to find out what they have to offer the electorate.
Caroline Lucas, the Green Party MP, will return to Hastings in late March to launch the party’s local election campaign in which the Greens will stand candidates in all wards. Nick Terdre reports.
Walking, cycling and other forms of sustainable locomotion are in focus as Hastings Greenway Group holds its agm and calls for the reinstatement of £3m diverted by the county council from walking and cycling purposes, and a meeting is called to set up a local branch of the Living Streets movement. Nick Terdre reports.