On Thursday 2nd May, residents in Hastings and St Leonards will be going to the ballot box to vote for local councillors to represent them on Hastings Borough Council and the Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner.
In my bi-monthly column for the Hastings, St Leonards and Rye Observer, I have recently written about improved fiscal support for families through tax-cuts to National Insurance Contributions, changes to Child Benefit and the roll-out of free childcare.
In the 2023 Spring Budget, the Chancellor announced the single biggest investment in childcare in England’s history, expanding 30 free hours of childcare for working parents from nine months old up to when they start school, and, as of 1st April, the first fifteen hours for working parents of two
Sally-Ann Hart, Member of Parliament for Hastings and Rye visited the Shipwreck Museum, Rye Heritage Centre, and Charles Palmer Vineyards to show her support for English Tourism Week.
Hastings and Rother are next in line for a £40 million boost that will upgrade their towns, community centres and build more affordable homes for local people.
The Department for Transport has awarded East Sussex County Council £875,000 to improve safety on the A2101. The funding comes as part of the Government’s Safer Roads Fund with £38.3m awarded in this tranche.
At a recent meeting in Bexhill, local MPs Sally-Ann Hart and Huw Merriman, pressed the Chief Executive of Southern Water and the Area Director for the Environment Agency to take further action to clean up local bathing waters, provide accurate information on sewage releases and for real-time data
The last few years have not been easy for the British economy nor locally here in Hastings and Rye. We have faced the legacy of Covid, war in Ukraine and the Middle East. These challenges have made life tough for people in Hastings and Rye.
On Friday 15th March, Sally-Ann Hart spoke in the Second Reading of Selaine Saxby’s Animal Welfare (Importation for Dogs, Cats and Ferrets) Bill in the House of Commons.
