Hastings Old Town Residents Association
East Hill House
13 Tackleway
Hastings
East Sussex
TN34 3DE
Dick Edwards, Chairman
01424-437069 — dick@hotra.org.uk
For everyone living and working in the Old Town
Report Street Problems
Click here to go to Fix My Street, where you can report problems such as potholes, broken paving slabs and blinking street lights.
Good News!
NEW SURGERY FOR HASTINGS OLD TOWN
At a meeting on Wednesday August 23rd Hastings Council Planning Committee UNANIMOUSLY approved the relocation of the Old Town doctor's surgery to the Ice House, Rock-a-Nore Road.
1,723 people signed the petition pressing for this. Thank you for this display of unity.
Dr Craig Namvar has spent years trying to get this to happen. Now the building will be fitted out to provide the modern and safe health care that Old Town residents deserve.
Dr Namvar deserves the whole hearted thanks of the Old Town community for his investment of time and money to give local residents an up-to-date facility.
Graffiti are not a new problem in the Old Town but in recent months there has been a blitz of tags on some of our walls. Hastings council will remove them if you complain – but only if they are on your property. Vivien Harrison has written a quick guide to notifying the council, which you can download by clicking here.
Croft Road is steep and narrow. Cars and motor bikes go too fast, and lorries and coaches sometimes block it to traffic coming the other way. Would you support making the road a one-way street? HOTRA wants your views! Please complete a two-minute survey. You can find it by CLICKING HERE.
If you have returned a paper form, please do not also fill in this online version!
Hastings Opportunity Area
In October 2016 the government launched Opportunity Areas, aiming "to build young people’s knowledge and skills and provide them with the best advice and opportunities." Click here to learn more.
This intitiative is to run for 3 years in 12 towns around the country where social mobility is believed to be a key factor that impairs the performance of local children. There is a total of £78m available with £1m initially in Hastings.
HOTRA cautiously welcomes the money but holds deep reservations around monitoring outcomes and securing lasting improvements.
At a meeting held on 9th May, the HOTRA management committee unanimously agreed this resolution...
We call upon Hastings Community Network to help secure the best possible outcomes from the Hastings Opportunity zone. In particular we ask that :
- Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Schools be involved in independent monitoring and advice;
- a robust mechanism be set up that allows the local community to be involved;
- that the initial 3 year period be extended where successes are clear.
It is hoped that this matter be discussed by the Local Strategic Partnership at the earliest opportunity.
Please send comments to dick@hotra.org.uk
Anti-social behaviour and dogs
Are you fed up with agressive begging, drug and alcohol misuse or thoughtless dog owners ?
Hastings Council are consulting on new Public Space Protection Orders.
You can read a summary of the proposal on dogs by clicking here, and on anti-social behaviour here. The full proposals are weighty documents of many pages. You can look at the dogs proposal here, and the full anti-social behaviour proposal here.
HOTRA has prepared a response which you can download by clicking here. If you wish to respond individually, take a look at this web page.