Regeneration
Hastings and St Leonards are being transformed. A Labour government working with a Labour MP and a Labour-led council has brought substantial sums into the borough for its regeneration and revival – and it’s working.
Four years ago Tourism South East found that the image outsiders had of Hastings was one of dereliction and decay. Now they say it is one of the towns in the region people want to visit.
Last year the Daily Mirror wrote of the town: “Hard work by the locals, plus massive private and public investment has seen it rise, phoenix-like from the ashes.”
Just think back what has happened to Hastings in the last four to five years. We can now boast a University Centre, offering higher education locally for the first time. We now have a modern railway station providing a shiny new gateway to the town, the Creative Media Centre mark one and the mark two in Robertson Street, the new Innovation Centre at Churchfields and expansion taking place iin the Priory Meadow.
Work is underway on the millennium community housing projecst in Ore Valley and on the Marina pavilion and will soon start on the Havelock Road Gap site and on a new business park off Queensway. And the housing renewal programme iin Central St Leonards continues.
There is no other town of our size in the country with so much going on that’s what labour has meant for Hastings.
Hastings and St Leonards are being transformed. A Labour government working with a Labour MP and a Labour-led council has brought substantial sums into the borough for its regeneration and revival – and it’s working.
Four years ago Tourism South East found that the image outsiders had of Hastings was one of dereliction and decay. Now they say it is one of the towns in the region people want to visit.
Last year the Daily Mirror wrote of the town: “Hard work by the locals, plus massive private and public investment has seen it rise, phoenix-like from the ashes.”
Just think back what has happened to Hastings in the last four to five years. We can now boast a University Centre, offering higher education locally for the first time. We now have a modern railway station providing a shiny new gateway to the town, the Creative Media Centre mark one and the mark two in Robertson Street, the new Innovation Centre at Churchfields and expansion taking place iin the Priory Meadow.
Work is underway on the millennium community housing projecst in Ore Valley and on the Marina pavilion and will soon start on the Havelock Road Gap site and on a new business park off Queensway. And the housing renewal programme iin Central St Leonards continues.
There is no other town of our size in the country with so much going on that’s what labour has meant for Hastings.
posted by diogenes at 11:33 PM
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Whilst I agree with the aims of some of the regeneration projects proposed I feel there are some glaring omissions.
For countless years people visiting Hastings as well as the locals themselves have had to put up with traffic congestion caused by the poor road layout on Sedlescombe Road North near the Ridge bridge. If the Hastings planners cannot sort that simple mess out (I suggest a roundabout by the way) what hope have they in regenerating the rest of our town?
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