Hastings Old Town named 'Best Neighbourhood' in national awards - 2016

The Old Town of Hastings has been crowned best neighbourhood in the UK and Ireland at the 2016 Urbanism Awards Ceremony.

The award is one of five given out annually by built-environment network The Academy of Urbanism to recognise the best, most enduring or most improved urban environments.

It's voted on by its members, who include leading architects, planners and developers.

The Jerwood gallery was highlighted for praise Credit: Jerwood Gallery

Judges were particularly impressed with the way in which it has kept much of its historic fabric and layout intact, yet managed to embrace contemporary additions that creatively respond to the townscape.

Shepherds Cottage, Fairlight Place, Barley Lane

Demolition of existing building and erection of new dwelling with facade retention

http://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=_HSTBC_DCAPR_102432

Andrew Blackman, Chairman of the Friends of Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve on behalf of the committee. writes:
We object to the proposed development. Attempting to add a two storey extension to an existing single storey building is rarely a recipe for success and, in the present case, the result is a deeply unsatisfactory. The site is a prominent one within a particularly sensitive part of the High Weald AONB so the design of any proposed building here is of the greatest importance. The current design is unacceptable. The Friends would not object to a significant single storey extension in keeping with the look and feel of the existing cottage.

Book Sale – good quality secondhand books raising funds for Hastings History House

Friday 18th - Sunday 20th November - 11-4pm

 

UNCANNY LANDSCAPES

NOVEMBER 9 @ 7:00 PM | FREE

University of Brighton, Hastings, Priory Square
Hastings, TN34 1EA United Kingdom + Google Map

ADULTS

Gareth E Rees is an author, psychogeographer, spoken word performer and editor of UnofficialBritain.com, a website that takes a skewed look at our lesser-explored landscapes.

His debut book ‘Marshland’ was a time travelling adventure in London’s urban wilderness while his latest work explores his home town of Hastings, where he finds unexpected magic in its memorial benches, supermarket car parks and concrete walls.

With musical support from James Wvr (The Warrior Squares).

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS IN THE LECTURE THEATRE AT THE HAVELOCK ROAD SITE.

TALKING POSTS BY SHARED SPACE AND LIGHT -

NOVEMBER 7 @ 5:00 PM - NOVEMBER 13 @ 10:00 PM | FREE

near Debenhams, Robertson St
Hastings, TN34 1HN United Kingdom + Google Map

ADULTS FAMILY UNDER 10S

Talking Posts offers a novel twist on the ancient tradition of stories shared around the campfire.  Two ornate Victorian street lamps flicker in the dark and eerie projections emerge. Perfectly contained within their glass enclosures, licked by gas flames, disembodied, life-sized talking heads relate accounts of supernatural activities in Hastings.

Talking Posts is the brainchild of Brighton-based company Shared Space and Light, creators of unforgettable collective experiences using a combination of moving image, sound and light.  Stories are told by local actors.*

5pm-10pm every evening from Monday 7 November to Sunday 13 November.

This event is free and suitable for all ages.

CONSULTATION LAUNCHED ON NEW VISION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN HASTINGS

The Future of Higher Education in Hastings: A new University Centre

A three-month public consultation to help shape the proposed new University Centre that could replace the University of Brighton’s Hastings campus over the next three-to-four years was launched today. The consultation runs from 1 August to 30 October 2016

The University of Brighton is seeking views on the shape of the proposed new University Centre for Hastings and how this might best serve the people and local economy of the town.

This consultation process runs from 1 August 2016 to 30 October 2016.

If you would like to take part in the consultation you can complete the online survey. If you require a paper copy or any additional help with this consultation please contact hastingsquestions@brighton.ac.uk.

Complete our online survey

 

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Heritage Forum

Wednesday 12th October 2016
10.00am - 4.30pm (Registration at 09.30)
Lecture Theatre, University of Brighton in Hastings, Priory Square

"The Saxon Times" with David Clarke

Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street

Saturday 8th October 2016

5.30 pm

Tickets - £3 (can be ordered in advance - tel: 01424 424744)

David Clarke will talk on how the events of 1066 might have been reported if today's press had existed then.

Refreshments available

Email ohpscontact@gmail.com

Tel 01424 424744

When Harold Won in 1066

Chris Rock, author and chair of the
Battle of Stamford Bridge Society is
travelling down from Yorkshire to
talk about Harold's forgotten victory

in 1066.

Thursday 13 October at 3pm

Hastings Museum

and Art Gallery

Free Admission

The Battle of Hastings, as the Bayeux Tapestry tells it

.Thurs 29th Sept, 2pm (doors open 1.30pm) at St. Mary-in-the-Castle.

This is a fundraiser for The Art Fund (patron The Queen), which buys works of art for public museums and galleries, organised by their Sussex branch. Further information email MilRob.Meeching@gmail.com

There are two sources of tickets: via the venue (£16.50 see https://www.musicglue.com/stmaryinthecastle/events/29-sep-16-the-battle-of-hastings-as-the-bayeux-tapestry-tells-it--whoever-rules-life-is-hard-for-the-underclasses-st-mary-in-the-castle/ ),

or - £18 inc tea & biscuits at the SMIC café -  please send your name and address, plus a cheque in favour of “Art Fund” marked with the name of the event on the back of your cheque, (and an email address):     Battle of Hastings    to:

Miles Robinson
Volunteer – Art Fund Sussex
Meeching, BURWASH, East Sussex TN19 7JP

On receipt of your cheque you will be issued you with a ticket by email which you will need to print off and take with you to enter & claim your tea, etc.

This is not part of the Root 1066 festival of contemporary arts

Dr Gale Owen-Crocker is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the University of Manchester, and an expert on textiles / costume.  Her most well-known book is Dress in Anglo-Saxon England, and she has written on the Bayeux Tapestry

The Prince Albert Statue Project

Special fundraising event to be held at

The West Hill Community Centre
(junction of Croft Road and Bembrook Road, small car park)

On Saturday 8 October, at 6.30 p.m.

Illustrated talk by Brian Lawes on the statue of Prince Albert and its sculptor Edwin Stirling, followed by a talk ‘Trials and Tribulations’ on the project to have the statue erected alongside Hastings Town Hall.

Admission £2 (on the door).

Refreshments available, and there will be a raffle at the interval.

For further information e-mail: albertstatue@outlook.com

Hidden Corners of Hastings

Albert!

A satisfactory meeting re the Prince Albert Statue project was held. . Stone for the pedestal being ordered, work is to proceed on the foundations, and aiming for completion in October.

But there is a need to raise some more funds,

A fund-raising event (talk on statue and project, refreshments and raffle) will be held at West Hill Community Centre early October. (More details later.)

Donations of raffle prizes needed.  These may be left at the History House, 21 Courthouse Street, Thursday – Sunday, 11am – - 4pm

The New Hastings Tapestry–apologies for late posting–you only have a week!

Celebrating the people of Hastings 2016. A new ‘tapestry’ of 950 panels is being commissioned to represent the people of Hastings. It will be displayed in St Clement’s Church in the Old Town to mark the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings – and you can be a part of this inspirational project from St Clements.

Join in this unique new art work: you will dress your panel as yourself – and
together the panels will create a rich tapestry showing the people of
Hastings 2016. We are aiming to make 950 panels. Each completed
panel will form part of the sewn collage.

For more information contact 01424 422242, email office@oldtownparish.org.uk or see the Hastings 950 Tapestry Facebook page.