Questions the record answers
The questions people in Hastings keep asking, answered from
the councils' own papers. Each answer is a passage quoted word for word,
linked to its source.
How these are answered
Once a day each question below is put to
Ask the record: an ordinary word search over
every council paper we hold picks the closest passages, and a language
model run by TypeSafe judges which of them directly answer the question.
It chooses between the councils' words and never writes any of its own.
Then a person checks the answer before it appears here. When a newer
paper changes the answer, the new one waits to be checked, and the last
checked answer stays up meanwhile. The questions are fixed and published
in config/issues.yaml; changing one is a public edit with a
date.
The councils' money
What did Hastings Borough Council's part of the council tax go up by this year?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
Has Hastings Borough Council asked the government for exceptional financial support?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
Has East Sussex County Council asked the government for exceptional financial support?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
What is Hastings Borough Council's budget gap for next year?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
Housing and homelessness
How many households are in temporary accommodation?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
How much does temporary accommodation cost the council each year?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
How many households are on the housing register waiting list?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
The Local Plan
What is the housing target for the Local Plan period?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
Regeneration money
How much Town Deal funding did Hastings receive?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
By when must the Town Deal funding be spent?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
How much will Hastings receive from the Plan for Neighbourhoods?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
The council itself
What is happening to Hastings Borough Council under local government reorganisation?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.
What is the council doing about Hastings Pier?
Not answered here yet: the answer the record gives is waiting to be checked by a person.