Save Our Pier: Sign the Observer's online petition now
To sign our petition click HERE
The Observer is urging Hastings Borough Council to act over the continued closure of Hastings Pier.
The town is now in its third summer without a pier after council officials closed the Victorian structure over health and safety concerns.
Since then the once bustling attraction has lay shut amid lengthy legal ranglings and years on inactivity on the part of the owners, the off-shore firm Ravenclaw Investments.
Earlier this year the local authority's tourist manager estimated the closure could have cost the town somewhere in the region of 750,000 visitors and more than 9million.
This is something a town like Hastings simply cannot cope with.
Therefore, The Observer is urging the council to commit to moving things forward and returning the pier to the people of Hastings.
Our simple plan is:
- For the council to start procedure to compulsory purchase the pier from Ravenclaw, allowing the trust to begin attracting funding.
- The, once this funding is in place, complete the CPO and then hand the ownership over to the Hastings Pier and White Rock Trust.
- And for the council to begin working more closely with the trust to help it get its plans up and running.
We are encouraging every Hastings resident - or indeed, anyone who has ever visited the pier, to join our campaign by sign our online petition.
To sign our petition click HERE
What do you think of the idea? Should the council be doing more? What would you like to see happen to the pier? Leave your comments here.
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