Climate plans, flooding, waste, recycling and the town's trees and green spaces.
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Air quality
The borough council monitors nitrogen dioxide at 12 places and reports yearly. Its newest report says: “No exceedances of the annual or 1-hour mean air quality objectives were measured in Hastings Borough, in 2025.” Every site, five years of figures.
Fly-tipping and recycling
From DEFRA's national statistics: the council recorded 1,529 fly-tipping incidents in 2024-25; 30.1% of household waste was reused, recycled or composted in 2023-24. Year by year, beside the other East Sussex districts.
Who holds this brief
The cabinet posts whose own titles name “Environment”, “Environmental”, “Climate”, “Nature”, “Green Spaces”.
Climate, Nature and Green Spaces Portfolio Holder
Hastings Borough Council · Jo Walker (Green Party) · the post's title names “Climate”
Community Safety and Environmental Services Portfolio Holder
Hastings Borough Council · Becca Horn (Green Party) · the post's title names “Environmental”
Lead Member for Resources and Climate Resilience
East Sussex County Council · Stephen Chapman (Reform UK) · the post's title names “Climate”
Lead Member for Transport and Environment
East Sussex County Council · Peter Griffiths (Reform UK) · the post's title names “Environment”
How this page is made: a document appears here when its title
or text contains one of these words: “climate”, “net zero”, “carbon”, “flood”, “flooding”, “recycling”, “waste collection”, “biodiversity”, “tree planting”, “air quality”. We match whole words and
ignore case. A matching word doesn't mean the document is mainly about this
topic, so each entry shows the word that matched and links to the council's
own document.
Committee agenda · Place Scrutiny Committee · Wed 23 Sep 2026 · matched “Flood” in the document text
…and 438 earlier entries. The full record is searchable and in the datasets.
Contract notices on this subject
The same keyword rule, matched against what public bodies are buying. 0 are still open to bid. Awarded isn't the same as spent, and each notice's own page explains how to respond.