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.
On Tuesday 12 March, Sally-Ann Hart MP led a Westminster Hall Debate on ‘information on support available for parents and carers of infants’, ahead of the Second Reading of her Private Members’ Bill [Support for Infants and Parents etc (Information) Bill] on Friday 15 March.
February was reportedly the wettest February for 258 years. Parts of the South East, including Hastings and Rye, were at risk of flooding, with a number of yellow weather warnings throughout the month. Those warnings did not cover the risk of landslides, four of them across Hastings and Rye.
Many residents, schools and businesses across Hastings and Rye have raised with me the impact of the sudden growth in holiday lets post-Covid, preventing local people from being able to rent or buy a home where they were born and grew up or where they work, and the difficulties of recruiting staf
