Grace L. Image: tenants’ protest July 2024 One Tuesday morning in February, tenants in the Four Courts flats in Hollington got a hand delivered letter inviting them to a meeting the very same day with their landlord, Southern Housing. The meeting would be about moving them out of their homes within a year. The whole…
Grace L Our local borough council is being abolished. It’s a done deal apparently. At the moment we have a local borough council in Hastings that makes decisions on a number of important issues – such as planning permission for new developments and dealing with homelessness – and a county council with a vastly bigger…
Gareth Stevens considers the winners and losers of gentrification Even though I have used both the terms DfL (Down from London) and OfB (Over from Brighton) from time to time … I try not to. Both labels are lazy, reductive and divisive. Whenever people use either term in a pejorative way, they redirect fire which…
Words: Merlin Betts, Photos: @sonskaphotographystudio Cold winter sun in the town centre, the occasional ray of light and heat caught by a winter jacket, or touching a frosty face. It’s a Saturday, and among the steady flow of shoppers, drinkers and cafe enthusiasts, people are stopping to read freshly printed copies of Hex, wet paste…
Looking at the plywood boards that now cover our town’s promised wonderland, Lizzie Beck is just left wondering. Where did our £400k go? And where’s Willy?I could be justly accused of overegging the pudding by describing the town centre Debenhams building as iconic, but perhaps I’m fair in saying it’s now a monument to mismanagement,…