25th September 2023 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
Across the country our public infrastructure is at breaking point. In Hastings one of the starkest indicators of that is our broken housing market which is about to break the council’s finances with a forecast spend this year of £5.6 million on temporary accommodation. It is surprising then that one of the council’s responses to […]
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26th July 2022 / 26th July 2022 by juliahilton
Make 20mph the default speed on our residential streets across Hastings and St Leonards where we live, work, shop, play and learn. by Zelly Restorick In St Leonards, Amanda Jobson – a newly elected Green Councillor for Gensing Ward – was listening to residents’ concerns last spring about speeding. Amanda says: “I’ve lived here for 15 […]
27th May 2022 / 27th May 2022 by juliahilton
The Green group of councillors on Hastings Council has made the decision to enter into a co-operative alliance with Labour to run the council. Hastings Borough Council was left in No Overall Control following the 5 May local elections. Greens won three seats from Labour, meaning that the 32-seat council now consists of 15 Labour, […]
16th May 2022 / 19th March 2024 by juliahilton
Hastings Greens celebrate May 2022 local election wins with co-leader Adrian Ramsay @Stuart Griffiths Hastings Green Party made spectacular gains in the May 2022 local elections, winning three seats from Labour. Central St Leonards, Gensing and Tressell all fell to the Greens, whilst in Castle Becca Horn came within a hair’s breadth of taking a […]
22nd March 2022 / 22nd March 2022 by juliahilton
After the Labour Party issued a leaflet this weekend making misleading claims about the Green Party, I am making a public commitment as Green Group leader that I and all our candidates will be running a positive and honest election campaign, focussing on the skills and energy of our candidates and our ideas for change […]
We thought you might like to know what we have both been up to since Claire joined the Greens in December and we became a Green Group on Hastings Council. Council Budget At the recent full council meeting to agree the budget, two of our amendments were supported. One to make sure climate risk was […]
21st March 2022 / 23rd March 2022 by juliahilton
Caroline Lucas MP visited St Leonards on 19 March to launch Hastings Green Party’s campaign for the 2022 local elections. She met with members and supporters, and spent time door knocking around Central St Leonards, reporting a very positive response on the doorstep. Caroline talked about the impact a Green presence can have on local […]
8th February 2022 / 8th February 2022 by juliahilton
Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer visited Hastings on February 3-4 to support the party’s campaign for the upcoming local elections. Carla was elected as co-leader of the Green Party in October 2021, alongside Adrian Ramsay. She is a councillor in Bristol, where the Green Party made huge gains in the May 2021 local elections, and […]
3rd December 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
Hastings Borough Council’s Labour councillor for Castle ward has announced that she has defected to the Green Party. Councillor Claire Carr, who was elected to HBC in May 2021, says, “I have reached the conclusion that I will never be treated fairly or have my voice properly heard on behalf of the residents of Castle […]
29th November 2021 / 3rd December 2021 by juliahilton
By JULIA HILTON, Green Party councillor for Tressell and Old Hastings, and TONY COLLINS, Green Party campaigner The news is full of environmental doom as COP 26 unrolls. You may feel anger, despair, or confusion at the way our politicians are failing to seize the initiative. We need our leaders to lead, recognising that time […]
