The pages on this website "Masterplan" & "Area Action Plan" considered the hopes of Hastings Borough Council to see houses built on almost all of the open space at Bohemia. That includes the Bohemia Road frontage, The Oval and the Horntye cricket ground. A planning application HS/FA/21/00845 is now published in October 2021 that if approved will see homes built over the existing cricket ground to occupy all the existing open space that currently exists.
Please see HS/FA/21/00845 for the planning application.
For more details see the updated "regeneration Horntye Homes" page
Please see HS/FA/21/00845 for the planning application.
For more details see the updated "regeneration Horntye Homes" page
The Hastings Pier & White Rock trust was formed when the Hastings Pier needed funds and a plan to bring it back into use. Now that the pier has become a popular visitor attraction for the region. The HP&WRT has become the White Rock Trust and has defined its area of interest shown in the map below.
In December 2017 Hastings Online Times published an article by Nick Terdre that provides a short version of the 64 page document below. Click HERE to see the article in HOT.
Now it is 2020 and an update in Hastings HOT gives more details on how the LABOUR controlled HBC is intent on the first part of turning the green space of White Rock into housing where the main concern is to ensure that the bottm line of profit is in the interest of the developers. Hastings Online Times Jan 2020.
The next area where HBC propose to remove the trees and grass is on the land beside Bohemia from the Museum & Art Gallery to Horntye.
The next area where HBC propose to remove the trees and grass is on the land beside Bohemia from the Museum & Art Gallery to Horntye.
The White Rock Trust.
The White Rock Park & Bohemia Masterplan was published in July 2017.
It is worth a quick read of the 64 pages from the link above to the PDF file that reveal how developers consider along with HBC officers that existing open space in Bohemia would be a good site for more housing affordable and not so affordable. It is a typical document created by consultants.
Houses on the Oval maybe a few years away but houses on the Horntye cricket ground could occur much sooner as cash from the sale of land would fund the Sport Village at Bulverhythe, subject to the Enviroment Agency not raising the issues on flood risk.
Summerfields Wood and the Bohemia Walled Garden are within the area of the White Rock Trust and the transformation of Rothermere House at 49-51 Cambridge Road is is now complete . The former Observer building next door at No 52 built by architect Henry Ward, with its Hathernware frontage, that has remained derelict for several years seems set to have the White Rock Trust influencing the opportunities that the former print works can offer to Hastings and the community. The HM Government funded Seaspace or now Seachange organisations have failed to deal with the urban decay in Hastings leaving places like the Queens Hotel, White Rock Baths, and the Observer Building to receive attention from others who have an interest. Hopefully the White Rock Trust has the vision that Seachange lacks. The recently published White Rock Park & Bohemia Masterplan does raise some concerns on whether the White Rock Trust has concerns for the culture of Hastings and existing community or whether their interest is in profit for the consultants and developers who do not have concern for those who already live in the area. The two maps below offer an idea of how the White Rock Trust seems prepared to sacrifice a huge amount of open space to satisfy the current government desire to build more homes on every possible location.