Words: David Williams. Images: Hastings Urban Bikes. It’s unavoidable sometimes, but making comparisons to our capital city (L**don) are often unhelpful, even damaging. Take housing, for example. In the city, it is now not uncommon to be paying close to a grand a month for a room in a shared house! And the median house…
Words: Merlin Betts Artwork: Chris Sav @disappointman Well, it was a little more than a month to decide, and they’re backdating it so it’s more like the next 18 years, but you get the idea. The Local Plan is out for consultation, and our Hastings future is being decided. The decision-makers are a government in…
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…