Our heritage includes how community develops and how it processes its tensions does it not?
It's my view, and probably not my view alone* that the Hastings Pier fire, just like the following summer's riots elsewhere in the country, is an important part of our community's heritage.
My questions to the HPWRT and to anyone entrusting the trust are:
The core values being asked to be upheld by all involved in the recent history of the pier (& it's possible redevelopment) are truth, community action, inclusivity, choice, reparation and re-integration into peaceful existence. These values ring so strongly for me that I moved here to help foster and support them.
Three weeks will have gone by since the latest restatement of the mission for inclusive regeneration in Hastings & St Leonards that starts with the pier fire. To date there has been no contact made from the HPWRT to any of the member organisations of the consortium, though they do know where to find us.
And preparations for the second anniversary of the pier fire are well underway; I hope that the following people in particular are keeping their diaries free on 5th October to join in:
Any of the above -or any member of the public- can book in to attend via this link to the "Ethical Outings" (in Hastings & St Leonards) blog.
*To verify if this is just my view alone, why not ask the Hastings Justice Facebook Group, for example or ask others and add a comment below this blog post letting me know what they said.
My questions to the HPWRT and to anyone entrusting the trust are:
"1) Aren't you interested in finding out how the pier got burnt down?
2) What would make this issue important enough for you to address?"By tomorrow, three weeks will have gone by since the Hastings & St Leonards Observer published the letter from the St Leonards Sharing Consortium that was asking questions along this line.
The core values being asked to be upheld by all involved in the recent history of the pier (& it's possible redevelopment) are truth, community action, inclusivity, choice, reparation and re-integration into peaceful existence. These values ring so strongly for me that I moved here to help foster and support them.
Three weeks will have gone by since the latest restatement of the mission for inclusive regeneration in Hastings & St Leonards that starts with the pier fire. To date there has been no contact made from the HPWRT to any of the member organisations of the consortium, though they do know where to find us.
And preparations for the second anniversary of the pier fire are well underway; I hope that the following people in particular are keeping their diaries free on 5th October to join in:
- Jeremy Birch, CEO, Hastings Borough Council
- Ray Chapman, Hastings Pier & White Rock Trust
- Simon Opie, CEO, Hastings Pier and White Rock Trust
- Maria, CEO, Centre for Peaceful Solutions
- Glynis Jacques, St Leonards Town Team Regeneration Project
- Tony May, (Maybrick 44 YouTube Channel)
- Chris Gidlow, biographer to "Paul Crosland, the famous playwright"
Any of the above -or any member of the public- can book in to attend via this link to the "Ethical Outings" (in Hastings & St Leonards) blog.
*To verify if this is just my view alone, why not ask the Hastings Justice Facebook Group, for example or ask others and add a comment below this blog post letting me know what they said.
In the Hastings Pier Trust we trust?
For those who haven't seen the article from the Hastings & St Leonards Observer that launches this discussion (below), click here
Meanwhile:
- On the 9th May it was reported in the Hastings Observer online that there is an official objection received to the Hastings Pier Compulsory Purchase Order
- To register your interest in the community share issue by the HPWRT, click here
- Other forms and key information sheets for securing a future for the pier have been placed on a wiki site (like wikipedia) run by Mediation Support Ltd; that site being here
- To read how restorative justice work produced remarkable outcomes for a woman whose house was burned down (arson) & was uninsured -read here
- To book for the major event that marks the 2nd anniversary of the pier fire -which is the focus of a further year's work by Paul Crosland, trained Criminologist, Mediator and Community Development Worker (as well as being the famous playwright!), click here
- Click here to get a sense of the Community Development work that took place on the 1st Anniversary
- The press release that followed that event is here
- And a copy of the "Harmonisation Policy" which the HPWRT commissioned from Mediation Support Ltd is here
Sussex Community Blog: New page about St Leonards Sharing Consortium's offers to the HPWRT
Sussex Community Blog: New page about St Leonards Sharing Consortium's offers to the HPWRT
(More text to follow; meanwhile here's a film or two):
Southwater Area Community Centre
1-2 Stainsby Street
St Leonards on Sea
TN37 6LA
HPWRT & St Leonards Sharing Consortium's offers to the HPWRT
"St Leonards Sharing" Consortium have made a number of offers to the HPWRT & engaged well with the chair of the HPWRT over the year leading to the first anniversary of the pier fire:
The offers made by "St Leonards Sharing" Consortium will be listed on this page, AS WELL AS details of how they were responded to!
Meanwhile, before this new page is set up on this blog, here's some videos about this:
Southwater Area Community Centre
1-2 Stainsby Street
St Leonards on Sea
TN37 6LA
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