Hastings Green Party

The borough’s fastest-growing political party.

Cabinet Statement 7 Oct 24

9th October 2024 / 9th October 2024 by Becca H

New Capital Assurance Board to give “much needed oversight” to council’s capital finances Tonight’s cabinet meeting announced the creation of a new ‘Capital Assurance Board’ – a cross party councillor and officer working group who will advise and help to develop the council’s capital investment strategy as well as better manage the assets we own […]

Stand Up to Racism

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, […]

Statement Following Southern Water meeting 24th July 2024

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 […]

HIGHLIGHTS FROM FULL COUNCIL – 17 JULY

25th July 2024 / 25th July 2024 by davidbowden

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 […]

Council Leader Julia Hilton’s Speech to Annual Full Council.

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.

Council Julia Hilton

Water outage

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 […]

Eight new Green councillors!

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 […]

Landslides in Old Roar Gill and Caves Road.

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 […]

HBC Budget 2024-25

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 […]

Press Release — Hastings Green Party

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 […]