Please return your form to OHPS, Hastings History House, 21 Courthouse Street, Hastings TN34 3AU
or by email to ohpscontact@gmail.com
by Friday 10 th May.
Forms also available in the History House
Friday 26 April 2019
Tuesday 9 April 2019
Competition: Bohemia leisure and cultural centre, Hastings
Hastings Borough Council is recruiting a design team to explore leisure and cultural options for the Bohemia area of its town centre
The winner of the maximum £100,000 contract will complete an initial options appraisal for new leisure and cultural facilities within the 33ha Bohemia district immediately north of dRMM’s Stirling Prize-winning Hastings Pier.
The feasibility study is part of an ambitious comprehensive masterplan drawn up by the London Studio of Swedish practice White Arkitekter for the ‘underused and undervalued’ seafront area, which stretches from White Rock Theatre along Bohemia Road and includes the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus and Summerfields leisure centre.
In its brief, the council says: ‘Bohemia will be transformed through investment in the public realm, the reuse of a key seafront site, regeneration of open spaces, and new housing development, complemented by new leisure, cultural and tourism facilities. The development will be a game-changer, a celebration of the Hastings spirit, which builds on existing qualities and unlocks the potential of this part of town.
Saturday 6 April 2019
Select Committee on Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities The future of seaside towns Report of Session 2017-19 - published 4 April 2019 - HL Paper 320
Contents
Evidence is published online at https://www.parliament.uk/regenerating-seaside-towns and available for inspection at the Parliamentary Archives (020 712 3074).
[The Metro article shows a view of Hastings, below a comment on the success of Brighton and Bournemouth]
Monday 18 March 2019
Chapmans galore - Cemetery update
New Stories
- Chapman, Alfred James -
Fish Buyer of Hastings
- Chapman, Charles & Family -
St Leonards’ Dairy Dynasty
- Chapman, Charles, wife & daughter -
Builder, and one of the founders of Mount Pleasant Church
- Chapman, Henry - builder of Old Humphrey Avenue, Letting Agent, Landlord and The Hughenden Hall opened at 97 All Saints Street
- Chapman, Peter & Family -
Solicitor; born and practised in Barbados
The Next Scheduled Cemetery Walks are
At 2PM on the 19th May & 7th July 2019
To arrange a Cemetery Walk
email Anne Scott
email Anne Scott
Saturday 9 March 2019
Works to Stade Family Amusement Park approved!
Controversial proposals to extend an amusement park on Hastings seafront have been approved by town planners. The proposals for a range of works were granted planning permission by HBC’s planning committee at a meeting on Wednesday (March 6).
The approved works include adding an extra floor to the main park building, creating a new boathouse and jetty at the boating lake and extending the park’s boundaries by reducing the width of a footpath between the A259 and the beach.
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Before making a decision, the committee heard how the application was a duplicate of a previous item, which had been deferred due to concerns its description did not make it clear to a casual reader that replacing the footpath would extend the park’s boundaries. This could have left the council’s decision open to a judicial review, councillors were told at a meeting in October.
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Petitioners were represented at the meeting by local resident Anne Scott, who voiced fears about the potential loss of open public space.
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Objectors had also raised concerns about the restructuring of the footpath, with some raising concerns about the path being gated off and closed to the public.
However a spokesman for the developer said this would not be the case and that access would remain ‘unobstructed’. The developer’s spokesman, architect Bernard Baker, also suggested the inclusion of a condition to preserve the visibility along the path by keeping plants under control in an attempt to allay objectors’ concerns .
Following a short debate the proposals were granted planning permission with an additional condition relating to visibility of the footpath.
Read more at: https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/politics/works-to-hastings-amusement-park-finally-approved-1-8839280
The approved works include adding an extra floor to the main park building, creating a new boathouse and jetty at the boating lake and extending the park’s boundaries by reducing the width of a footpath between the A259 and the beach.
..............................................
Before making a decision, the committee heard how the application was a duplicate of a previous item, which had been deferred due to concerns its description did not make it clear to a casual reader that replacing the footpath would extend the park’s boundaries. This could have left the council’s decision open to a judicial review, councillors were told at a meeting in October.
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Petitioners were represented at the meeting by local resident Anne Scott, who voiced fears about the potential loss of open public space.
.......................................
Objectors had also raised concerns about the restructuring of the footpath, with some raising concerns about the path being gated off and closed to the public.
However a spokesman for the developer said this would not be the case and that access would remain ‘unobstructed’. The developer’s spokesman, architect Bernard Baker, also suggested the inclusion of a condition to preserve the visibility along the path by keeping plants under control in an attempt to allay objectors’ concerns .
Following a short debate the proposals were granted planning permission with an additional condition relating to visibility of the footpath.
Read more at: https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/politics/works-to-hastings-amusement-park-finally-approved-1-8839280
Monday 4 March 2019
Harold Place Toilets
Town Centre Restaurant/Retail development available via a pre let
Location
The site is situated on the pedestrianised area of Hastings town centre at the intersection of Queens Road, Wellington Place and Harold Place. Nearby occupiers include Caffé Nero, Costa Coffee, Jempsons and other local and national traders.
Key Points
- Ideal Restaurant location - ideal underground toilets (extant) & community park
- Close to town centre and Seafront - with a view, coming from the station
- Guide Rent £50,000pa
- Potential for other uses/designs - see above
- 3 Storey accommodation possible stpp - simply, No!
- Available as a rental option only
Monday 18 February 2019
Hastings & St. Leonards [Civic] Society's Open Meeting is on Monday 25 February, 6 pm start, at the White Rock Hotel (seafront meeting room on ground floor).
Main topic: The future of St. Leonard's Church and surrounding area, lead Chris Lewcock.
Free event. All welcome, but please advise hstlsoc@gmail.com in advance if you are attending so that we have idea of numbers.
“St Leonards Church is a key architectural landmark within Burtons’ St Leonards and for the whole Town. Sadly it is now physically unsound and closed for religious use. West of the Church are St Leonards Steps, a main pedestrian route from the West Hill Road area to Marina. Unfortunately the steps are gradually slipping down the cliff and also in danger of closure. East of the Church and below the Burton Family graveyard there is a weedy wasteland and a long-neglected development site. A sorry picture. Secure uses and a future for this Listed Gilbert-Scott Church and its surrounds can and must be found so that this becomes a seafront destination that the Town can be proud of.
Friday 1 February 2019
The Brede Steam Giants - an Illustrated Talk
Saturday 9th November, 5PM
at
Hastings History House
21 Courthouse Street
Tickets £4
In the 1960s many of our Victorian and Edwardian engineering masterpieces were demolished. Fortunately some survived, the Giants of Brede offer a chance to return to the ‘good old days’ and see the past in action!
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Monday 14 January 2019
Posted on the Cemetery Website
- Cemetery History 1916 from the Hastings & St Leonards Observer (“How we bury our heroes”)
- Brown, Private Hugh H W -
Born in St Leonards, enlisted in Canada. WW1 1918
- Proudfoot, James -
Canadian, died 1939, last person buried in Heroes’ Corner before the Second World War?
Saturday 12 January 2019
Friday 11 January 2019
Old Bathing Site. in West St Leonards.
West Marina Partnership (residents' group) have circulated the following e-petition regarding the former West Marina bathing pool site:
We the undersigned petition the council to to request:
(A) that the Council does not proceed with proposals to erect 152 dwellings on its land at Seaside Road; and
(B) that the Council actively and fully engages with the local community and other existing and potential recreational users of the site to develop an agreed plan for its future use.
More information on the Petition page
Petition @:
Thursday 3 January 2019
MP’s petition against plans for solar panels in country park
At a meeting on Monday (January 7), councillors will be asked to consider whether to move ahead with the project to build solar farms at three sites in Crowhurst and Fairlight.
Anyone wanting to sign Ms Rudd’s petition should click here.
Read more at: https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/environment/hastings-and-rye-mp-s-petition-against-plans-for-solar-panels-in-country-park-1-8756997
The reportand, the accompanying business caseIn particular look at page 12 of the business case to see the location for the solar arrays.
Anyone wanting to sign Ms Rudd’s petition should click here.
Read more at: https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/environment/hastings-and-rye-mp-s-petition-against-plans-for-solar-panels-in-country-park-1-8756997
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