Open Meeting Gensing Forum
OPEN MEETING
THURSDAY 28th JULY 2011
At the Community Information Centre
16 Silchester Road
6pm for 6.30
PRESENTATION
by Kerry Culbert and Stephanie Roots,
Senior Borough Planners
ON
SHAPING HASTINGS
HASTINGS LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
CORE STRATEGY INFORMAL CONSULATION
on
numbers of new homes, specific policy changes,
and spatial strategy.
No Meeting
There is No meeting this Wednesday for SBA members or committee.
Please watch this space for developing news.
How was it for you? Independents’ Day
Last Monday was Independents’ Day when we all encouraged local people to come into the shops and buy local stuff. How was it for you? Various Business forums across the UK seem to think it might not have been our finest retailing hour, and that Tsarina Mary Portas thought this one up after lunch…
But did you know it is actually a whole month, not just a day? No, me neither, but, well, how exciting. You can get details from the UK site all about it here, and from the International website, (for there is such a thing), the link is here.
St Leonards Festival
The wonderful St Leonards Festival, the south coast’s answer to Nottin’ Hill is on the 16th of July.
Grab a stall before they all go.
Tell the world about yourself and your services.
Have fun.
And lend a hand; stewards needed.
Cross Street: Your thoughts…
OK, it’s been some time, things are meant to have settled in, The Kings Road changes are done, but, (big but?), what do you all think of Cross Street been closed off?
It adds a large distance to travel to get to London Road, now you have to go via the sea front or cruise suburban streets, It only seems handy for the patrons of the pubs at each end… what do you think?
Perhaps HBC should be asked what they think (they were doing), and why many SBA members thought there were assurances that this would not happen.
Please leave your thoughts in the comments.
Security in your shop, Free!
The SAFER HASTINGS PARTNERSHIP has a few items left from a government funded initiative for small retailers.
If you are a Small Retailer in Hastings & St Leonards
A Retailer sells goods or commodities directly to the consumer (e.g. household, retail, newspapers, fruit and vegetable and other foods) from a fixed premise.
- Have no more than 3 shops
- have fewer than 10 staff working in each store at any one time
you could qualify to apply for any of the following equipment.
- Till screen
- Safe ( 1 hour fire rated safe ) requires fixing to suitable surface
Please contact Jacqui Lockwood 01424 451436 (jlockwood@hastings.gov.uk ) or Mike Fagan on 01424 451438 ( mfagan@hastings.gov.uk) as soon as possible. The equipment will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
-h/t: Terry Drinkwater
AND.. another freebie. a good but basic web based Bookkeeping system:www.brightbook.co.uk/
(The website is very bright. You can turn it to grey with a button at the top…)
-h/t: Clive Gross, 1066
Got a plan to promote St Leonards?
There might be funding available:
FOLLOWING THE SSL AMB MEETING ON THE 6TH SEPTEMBER, PLEASE FIND THE DETAILS OF THE DEVOLVED 5K AREA BASED GRANTS (ABG) ALLOCATION TO THE SOUTH ST LEONARDS AREA MANAGEMENT BOARD (SSL AMB)
Proposal for the allocation of ABG funds by the SSL AMB are as follows:
1) Invite locally recognised community groups and AMB partners to submit proposals using the application form attached to deliver projects in their neighbourhoods up to £2500
2) ) Projects should be beneficial to as many residents or businesses as possible and may include:
o Planting projects in their neighbourhoods
o Community Safety Projects in their neighbourhoods
o Community Clean up projects
o Community Arts Projects – including public performances
o Business led events and promotions to attract new visitors to their part of the town
o Additional improvements to local services
3) All projects should show high levels of participation or support and be inclusive
4) Project attracting additional sources of funding will be prioritised
Project proposals should be submitted to Terry Drinkwater, South St Leonards Neighbourhood Co-ordinator using the attached form and returned by 22nd October 2010. The selection panel will consist of the Chair and Vice Chair of the SSL AMB and the Neighbourhood Manager & SSL Co-ordinator who will meet by 29th October 2010. An update will be provided to the AMB in November 2010 to confirm which projects have been funded.
Useful Hastings council tel. numbers
There is a new page of useful Freephone telephone numbers for all the Council offices here
We want to put more numbers up: direct numbers for local Police (by area), and the like. If there are any you would like, or you know please let us know through the comments.
Twin assault on street drinkers and beggars in Hastings
(From BBC Sussex)
Drunken people are deterring investors, say councillors
Police and council officials are taking a harder approach to tackling beggars and drinking on the street in Hastings.
In an attempt to protect residents and encourage visitors and businesses, they are pledging a tougher stance.
They will move on nuisance drinkers from the promenade and clamp down on off-licence staff who continue to serve habitual drinkers.
Council leader Jeremy Birch said: “Hastings really needs extra visitors and new businesses to invest here.”
Following a meeting between Mr Birch and Hastings police Chief Inspector Mark Ling, a dispersal area has been identified on the promenade.
‘Robust approach’
The police and Hastings borough council are also calling on businesses selling alcohol in the town to stop selling liquor to known street drinkers.
A council spokesman said: “Habitual Drink Orders will be considered which make it an offence to sell alcohol to a named habitual drinker.”
Ch Insp Ling added: “We will take a robust approach against persistent street drinkers who are responsible for intimidation, harassment and anti-social behaviour.
“We will also use powers available to us under the Licensing Act to ensure that access to alcohol is restricted and sold responsibly. We will continue to work with Hastings Borough Council and other support service to find new ways of working to tackle and reduce this problem.”
Councillor Birch said: “We get complaints from residents who feel intimidated by groups of drinkers and by aggressive begging. They also complain of offensive behaviour by individual drinkers.
“But we also have to look at these issues from the point of view of the prosperity of the town… The sight of large gatherings of street drinkers can deter the people we need to boost our economy and help us create jobs.
“But the message we are sending is that public drunkenness, anti-social behaviour and street begging will not be tolerated in our town. If anyone comes here thinking this behaviour is acceptable in Hastings we don’t want them.”
An SBA refurb
We are starting a complete refurb of the SBA website. We want to get it running as a source of information about St Leonards, especially but not only about the business side.
What do you want? What can we give you, and what can you give us? We would love to hear from you with ideas, criticisms, suggestions, and always, always, information which is the lifeblood of any site.
We want to involve as many as possible to give a good picture of St Leonards, and a view of how we can improve it. This means we want the good bits and the bad bits. The good bits we can tell people about, and the bad bits we can try and fix, together.
Ideas? Please email us at sba1066@gmail.com. Thanks
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