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8th August 2024 / 9th August 2024 by davidbowden
Hastings Green Party wholeheartedly condemns the organised racist and Islamophobic acts of violence that we have seen in towns and cities across the country over the past week. Our town was named on a far-right target list: a threat designed to intimidate and cause terror within our local communities of colour, Muslims, refugees and migrants, […]
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25th July 2024 / 25th July 2024 by davidbowden
One of the first actions of new Green Council Leader Julia Hilton on her election in May was to call Southern Water to council to face questions on their performance. Yesterday evening CEO Lawrence Godsen and three other senior representatives attended a meeting with the public and councillors for the first time. Julia said, “As […]
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Here are some highlights from last night’s full council: HOUSING We’ve approved Phase 2 of the council’s Housing Programme which will provide around 134 new council-owned homes to help our residents most in need. This includes: This programme will not only significantly reduce our temporary accommodation costs, but all these homes will have to meet […]
23rd May 2024 / 23rd May 2024 by davidbowden
Hastings can be a place where residents are proud of their town and feel safe, valued and heard; where housing is available, affordable and energy efficient, and people can live healthy fulfilling lives.
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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 […]
Hastings Observer Articles Local Elections
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 […]
Hastings Observer Articles
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 […]
Local Elections
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 […]
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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 […]
