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The opinions expressed below are not   necessarily those of the proprietors who insist that if any part is found to be untrue or inaccurate full and meaningful retraction will be published with equal prominence.

Slogan from our council's  'explanitory' leaflet

  Rally in Linton Gardens 13/6/99 Click here

March on the Town Hall 16/6/99 Click Here

Hastings Mayor, Councillor Godfrey Daniel with two of Hastings' finest.

On May 10th 1999 Hastings Borough Council indulged in the strangest, some say barmiest new set of parking regulations. Council Officers, I'm reliably informed, found the task of devising a sensible parking scheme beyond their meagre capabilities and employed, at enormous expense to the Hastings community charge payers, a firm of consultants WHO KNEW LESS THAN THE OFFICERS DID. See for yourselves what the Cornwallis area looked like at around 10am June 9th 1999. For those of you that don't know Hastings (the consultants?) this is all within 5 minutes of the once throbbing heart of Hastings and its brand new shopping centre.

What was the Mission Statement? and how much did the consultants charge? - we should be told. The latest info is that it cost �107,000.  - OK, what did we get for the money?

Cornwallis Gardens, residents only parking, but they're all at work! 

More Cornwallis Gardens, it hasn't looked like this since the 1930's

  
Cornwallis Terrace, residents only, but where are they? - when they get home from work the restrictions don't apply!!

Devonshire Road, a pay and display zone mixed with residents, none of either to seen! the car in the picture had a disabled sticker and was parked on double yellow lines!

 
Holmsdale Gardens, residents only,  but they don't need on-street parking, they've got their own private parking round the back

   
The other end of Holmsdale Gardens, not a lot going on here, residents only.

Linton Road Bridge TWO parking payment machines, no cars though

 
View from the other end of the Linton Road Bridge, still can't see any cars.

NOT SHOWN: (ran out of film) Cambridge Gardens, 6 Guest houses, over 70 letting rooms to fill  with people who bring money to our town, and, you've guessed it - residents (not guests) parking on one side and no parking at all on the other!!!

  
And just to help strangers to the town, sign on the left points right to Priory Street Car Park and sign on the right points left to the same car park!!!! to be more helpful than our parking people I can tell you that Priory Street Car Park is on the right.

Have a look at what this firm is offering and see if there is any similarity

On the wider Hastings parking scene, does anyone know of any other town that has a COACH & LORRY PARK in the centre of its historic Old Town? Sensible towns, not just historic ones have coach and lorry parks outside the town and setting down places in the town, here the coach park is full of coaches that set down elsewhere. There are some that will say that there's not enough room in our congested borough to provide this large car parking space, well, there wasn't enough room to build a golf course so it was built in neighbouring Rother, I'm not sure whether it is self supporting - ask the council!!!. Its amazing what space you can find when you want to.    Hastings has another car park opposite the wonderful St.Mary in the Castle Arts Centre in front of Hastings Castle; it's built on reclaimed beach so, Why not bury a multi storey car park in the millions of cubic metres of beach and flog the surplus shingle, there's also the remains of an Elizabethan harbour buried down there and that would add to the town's tourist attractions. Why not re-introduce trolleybuses to show the seafront and ferry people to and from park and ride carparks, and act as another tourist attraction.

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