The owners of a caravan park are appealing against a council decision ordering them to tear down a controversial holiday home.
Historic England has also written to the council recommending Rocklands’ fresh retrospective application for solar panels be turned down.
It said an offence appeared to have been committed under the Ancient Monuments And Archeological Areas Act when some of the panels were installed. The site is next to and partly overlaps the Iron Age cliff castle on the East Hill.
Council bosses’ plans to re-model and revitalise the promenade at White Rock will come under discussion on Wednesday (November 25).
The authority first unveiled the proposals in June, which include planting mature palm trees along White Rock and revamping the existing water feature with a water cascade and a stage for licensed buskers.
The council said the proposals are designed to make the promenade from the pier to the junction with Robertson Street and White Rock more attractive for visitors, as well as complementing the reopening of Hastings Pier next March and the revamp of the disused White Rock Baths into a BMX and skateboarding park.
The site where the homes would be built is more than 13 hectares in size. Part of the land was formerly part of the Holmhurst St Mary estate.
The land has open fields with densely wooded areas, elements of a former formal garden, old outbuildings and classrooms, old tennis courts, a graveyard and a statue of Queen Anne which is Grade II* listed.
Objectors’ concerns include possible traffic generation and congestion, road safety, insufficient parking, impacts of the Bexhill to Hastings Link Road (BHLR) on The Ridge, impacts on heritage including the gardens and statue, impact on the environment and harm to ancient woodland.
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Don’t forget that Save Ecclesbourne Glen’s AGM takes place this Sunday, 15th November from 3pm to 5pm at the White Rock Hotel.
There will be a public meeting first with news, updates and an opportunity to ask questions, followed by the AGM itself. The SEG committee have been working extremely hard behind the scenes and all the issues are still very acute, so public support is still vital and very much appreciated.
The public hearing concerning Rocklands will take place on 20th January, 2016 and we will send you details of that in due course.
Please note the following retrospective application from Rocklands Caravan Park re solar panels which have been installed without planning consent:
http://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=_HSTBC_DCAPR_102723
Campaigners have scored a victory in their bid to have an historic statue placed in a prominent position in the town centre.
A project to have the statue of Prince Albert erected outside the town hall in Queen’s Square, Priory Meadow, has been given approval by the Planning Inspectorate.
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“Now that the community group has the planning inspectorate’s approval for having the statue relocated to alongside the town hall, it is hoped the council, which owns the land where the statue is to be erected, will be happy to let the project to go ahead without any further complications.
“As soon as the council confirms this to the community group, fundraising for the project will start.
This talk will not be presented by John Hodges as previously advertised, but by volunteers from the Hastings Pier Charity
Just to remind you:
History House, 13th November, 7PM
Admission £2 – free to Friends of the Country Park.
http://friendsofhastingscemetery.org.uk/writers.html
Many of these are writers of non-fiction, autobiography, travel, biography, poetry etc.
Dr Elizabeth Allen
History House, 21 Courthouse Street
Tickets available - £3 - refreshments available
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£9.99 (postage extra) – available from Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street
Available from Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street
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