9th May 2024 / 10th May 2024 by juliahilton
Southern Water will be offering local businesses more than the company’s standard level of compensation for the massive disruption, in particular those who rely on the May Day weekend for a huge portion of their income. The Southern Water team should be thanked for their hard work on the ground to resolve this emergency but […]
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9th May 2024 / 9th May 2024 by juliahilton
At last week’s local elections, Hastings residents gave the local Green Party eight new councillors, bringing the total to twelve. We feel honoured by your trust and energised by the responsibility that entails. Throughout the campaign you told us you’d had enough of bickering between parties, disliked all negative campaigning and wanted us to work […]
2nd March 2024 / 5th April 2024 by juliahilton
This has been a devastating week for some Hastings residents, who have had to leave their homes due to landslides in both Old Roar Gill and Caves Road. On Wednesday evening Deputy Leader Glenn Haffenden and I, along with other councillors and senior officers, met with residents who have been affected by the landslip at […]
20th February 2024 / 5th April 2024 by juliahilton
Next week we will finalise the budget for the council. The good news is that, thanks to hard work by officers to identify additional savings after years of government cuts to our budget, Hastings Borough Council is NOT going bankrupt. The situation is still challenging, requiring savings of £3.9 million because of the expenditure required […]
18th January 2024 / 5th April 2024 by juliahilton
Yesterday evening at an Extraordinary Full Council meeting, Green Group Leader Julia Hilton was voted in as Leader of the council to lead an interim administration until the local elections in May. Julia said: ‘This solution has been reached after lengthy discussions with all political groups. I had hoped to be able to form a […]
5th January 2024 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
Green View Column – January 2024 2024 presents big challenges but also opportunities for the council, our town and the whole country as we head for both local and general elections this year. At the last council meeting in December an outline budget was passed which commits the council to making radical changes and huge […]
If you live in Hastings and work in the public sector – eg the local council, or the fire service – then your pension may be propping up fossil fuel companies. In April 2016, thanks to campaigning by Divest East Sussex Group, Hastings became the first council in East Sussex to call on our County […]
In February 2019 Hastings declared a climate emergency thanks in part to pressure from Hastings Green Party. Other councils have taken a similar step. Now an independent agency, appropriately called ‘Climate Emergency UK’ and funded by a variety of charitable bodies and private donations, has quizzed councils across England and Wales to assess their progress. […]
15th December 2023 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
The local Labour party has been riven by tensions for some time now with many former activists either being expelled or leaving as the party moves to the right. I am not surprised that half of the Labour councillors have finally decided to leave an increasingly autocratic Labour Party however their timing leaves much to […]
19th November 2023 / 20th March 2024 by juliahilton
Today we have launched our Crowdfunder to raise £10,000 to win big in May 2024 and become the largest group on Hastings Borough Council. We’ve grown so fast in the last two years and now we want to go even further, aiming to go from five councillors to at least twelve in May 2024. To do that […]
