DCSIMG
For you to enjoy all the features of this website Hastings and St. Leonards Observer requires permission to use cookies.
Find Out More
  • What is a Cookie?

  • What is a Flash Cookie?

  • Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?

  • About our Cookies

  • Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.

  • This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.

  • Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

    However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.

  • The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:

    • Revenue Science

      A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.

    • Google Ads

      Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.

    • Webtrends / Google Analytics

      This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.

    • Dart for Publishers

      This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.

    • ComScore

      ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.

    • Local Targeting

      Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.

    • Grapeshot

      We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.

    • Subscriptions Online

      Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.

    • Add This

      Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.

    • 3rd Party Cookies

      We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Ore pub to be replaced with flats

A WELL-KNOWN 106-year-old pub is going to be demolished to make way for flats.

The New Clive Vale, at the corner of Old London Road and Alfred Road in Ore, will be knocked down and replaced by ten flats for people with learning difficulties.

Despite misgivings about the number of flats, parking and the design of the new building the Hastings Borough Council planning committee approved the scheme on Wednesday.

It will be four storeys high and include three one bedroom flats and seven two bedroom flats. Omar al-Hasso, of developers 161 Living Limited, said East Sussex County Council adult social care department saw these kinds of projects as a "strategic priority."

And Ray Crawford, the HBC planing officer, said: "It is a prominent building but it has been vacant for a long time and it is not listed."

Objector Aubrey Ingleton complained that not enough thought had been put into the best way to house people with learning difficulties and compared this application to the plans to move residents of Osborne House, on The Ridge, down to Queen's Road.

The New Clive Vale site already had planning permission for a six flat development and Cllr Anne Bird, who represents Ore, said: "Most residents would be pleased to see that area tidied up and put into use, so a sympathetic development would not be objected to. But ten flats is too many and the design is overpowering.

"As for parking every evening there are people chasing round the streets desperately trying to find somewhere to park and Ore is saturated with parked cars."

The council's highways manager though felt the four parking spaces planned was enough and new chairman of the committee Cllr Godfrey Daniel said: "This used to be a pub and a hotel which would have produced a lot of parking itself.

"This is a gateway building for Ore and has not done Ore any favours for many years now."

The scheme was approved by majority vote.


Find It

"Business owner? - Claim your business and Advertise with us"

In association with qype logo

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Property

Search for a house

Weather for Hastings

Monday 28 May 2012

5 day forecast

Today

Sunny

Sunny

Temperature: 12 C to 22 C

Wind Speed: 22 mph

Wind direction: South west

Tomorrow

Light rain

Light rain

Temperature: 11 C to 21 C

Wind Speed: 10 mph

Wind direction: West

Press Complaints Commission

This website and its associated newspaper adheres to the Press Complaints Commission’s Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then contact the Editor by clicking here.

If you remain dissatisfied with the response provided then you can contact the PCC by clicking here.

Hastings and St. Leonards Observer provides news, events and sport features from the Hastings area. For the best up to date information relating to Hastings and the surrounding areas visit us at Hastings and St. Leonards Observer regularly or bookmark this page.