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Planning permission for Queensway Gateway withdrawn

Monday 22 June 2015

Council bosses have quashed permission for the £15m Queensway Gateway road to be built, it has been announced today (Monday, June 22).

A judicial review into the original permission, which was granted by the authority in February, was due to be heard on Thursday and Friday this week at the High Court in London.

Kevin Boorman, spokesman for Hastings Borough Council, said: “The High Court has already ruled that the majority of Mr Carlyle’s arguments are misconceived.

“However, we do accept that the report which went to our planning committee in respect of the Queensway Gateway road did not draw committee members’ attention to the policy regarding air quality. It should have done, and we apologise for this omission.

“We do not think that it is in the interests of local council taxpayers for us to continue lengthy and potentially costly legal debate and so we have agreed to reconsider the scheme again at a further planning committee meeting.

http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/planning-permission-for-queensway-gateway-withdrawn-1-6810969

To celebrate the bi-centenary of the Battle of Waterloo ……

There is a display in the History House (21 Courthouse Street) with an accompanying slide show.

The Duke of Wellington was posted to Hastings in 1806 in order to take command of the brigade of infantry. His troop was based locally and he stayed at 54 High Street, using this as his headquarters.
The Swan Inn (situated opposite 54 High Street) was used for a public dinner in his honour in April 1806.
Wellesley then travelled back to his place of birth in Dublin and married Catherine Lady Pakenham, bringing her back to Hastings, where they lived at Hastings House, a beautiful Palladian Mansion at the North end of Tackleway. The plot where Hastings House and gardens once stood is now occupied by Old Humphrey Avenue.

East Hill ‘Bunker Protest Picnic’.

There is to be another ‘Bunker Protest Picnic’.   The event will be on Sunday 28 June, from 1p.m – 4pm on the East Hill, just to the west of the Bunker.  (The site is a short walk from the top of the East Hill funicular railway in Rock-a-Nore, Hastings Old Town.)

The Picnic will be a fun occasion – open to all – to let HBC know how much those present (and those unable to make it) care about the desecration of Hastings Country Park and the threats it remains subject to, such as unauthorised treefelling and severe administrative carelessness.

Back in March, the Planning Committee of Hastings Borough Council (HBC) refused another retrospective application. The Vice-Chair of the Committee, Cllr Michael Wincott, said at that meeting:

“As some of you know, I proposed refusing the retrospective application in June of last year, and I’m very very pleased this has been recommended for refusal.  It’s long overdue.  Take it down.” [Applause]

Subsequently, an Enforcement Order was issued, ordering the owners (Rocklands Caravan Park) to demolish the building.

Game over?  No — anything but.

Detailed discussion of the case includes the Bahcheli Report for HBC, and itsAddendum. Responses included the Save Ecclesbourne Glen critique and theDetailed Comments. The Landslip was discussed in the Coffey Report and itsAppendices. The geotechnical experts have done a sequel — as yet unpublished.

The Country Park remains at risk of permanent blight.   For more information on the event, contact Save Ecclesbourne Glen (SEG).

From  http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hottie/hot-topics/home-ground/country-park-bunker-protest-picnic

Robertson Street corner to Pier–new designs

http://www.hastings.gov.uk/decisions_democracy/voting_petitioning_having_your_say/consultation/current_consultations/whiterockpromenade/

Judicial review into Queensway Gateway road

A judicial review of the decision by Hastings Borough Council’s planning committee to grant permission for the £15 million Queensway Gateway road will be heard in the High Court on June 25 and 26.

The legal challenge claims that the authority should not have granted planning permission for the project as the road would breach national and EU laws on air pollution.

Developers were ordered to stop work on the Queensway Gateway road after the High Court agreed the judicial review could go ahead.

More at http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/local/judicial-review-into-queensway-gateway-road-1-6798541

OHPS 2015 AGM

Friday 12th June 2015
7 PM for 7.30

21 Courthouse Street, Hastings

Refreshments will be available after the meeting

Followed by
OHPS Projects : Past & Future
by Anne Scott