Topics
The record by subject, for when your question is "what's happening about parking?" rather than "what did Cabinet decide?". Each topic is a hand-written list of keywords matched over the record. Every topic page shows its own keywords, and every entry names the word that matched.
Every topic
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- Parking
Car parks, on-street parking, charges and enforcement. The borough runs off-street parking and the county runs on-street.
275 entries on the record · 1 contract notice - Housing
Housing supply, housing standards and homelessness. Mostly the borough's responsibility, with some county social care alongside it.
446 entries on the record · 4 contract notices - Seafront & coast
The promenade, the pier, the beaches and the coastal defences that protect them.
358 entries on the record - Transport & roads
Buses, trains, cycling, walking and the roads themselves. Most of these decisions are taken by the county or nationally.
302 entries on the record · 5 contract notices - Schools & learning
Schools, school places, admissions and support for children with special educational needs. East Sussex County Council is the education authority: it plans school places and consults on opening, closing or merging schools.
372 entries on the record · 211 contract notices - Health & care
The NHS locally, adult social care and public health. Most of this goes through the county's Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee.
372 entries on the record · 9 contract notices - Environment & climate
Climate plans, flooding, waste, recycling and the town's trees and green spaces.
478 entries on the record · 1 contract notice - Licensing & trading
Premises licences, street trading, taxis and gambling policy — the rules a business trades under. The borough council decides most of these.
272 entries on the record · 196 contract notices - Regeneration & economy
Town-centre projects, funding bids and the local economy.
474 entries on the record · 5 contract notices - Youth services
Youth clubs, youth centres, youth work and the other services for young people outside school.
52 entries on the record - Visitors & holiday lets
Tourism, the visitor economy, holiday and short-term lets, and any visitor levy.
91 entries on the record - School transport
Home to school transport, including travel for children with special educational needs. East Sussex County Council runs it.
36 entries on the record - Cost of living
Help with household bills and heating, and the funds the councils run for it: the Household Support Fund until March 2026, the Crisis and Resilience Fund since.
82 entries on the record · 1 contract notice - Allotments
The borough's allotments: rents, waiting lists and the allotment federation. Hastings Borough Council runs them.
32 entries on the record - Town of Culture 2028
Hastings' bid to be UK Town of Culture 2028, the money set aside for it, and the Hastings Year of Culture 2028 the council and Arts Hastings CIC say they will run instead.
16 entries on the record - Empty shops and the town centre
Empty shops, vacant units and what the councils say about the town centre's high streets, including empty property relief on business rates.
24 entries on the record