Save Our Historic Pier

[Lily]

Please help us spread the word - our pier is not a lost cause! We've composed a song and created a video to go with it that will hopefully help the Hastings Pier and White Rock Trust to gain much-needed members and assistance so that we can have the pier restored to its former glory.

tinyurl.com/onthepier

Hastings is such a wonderful place to live. Let's hold onto as much of it as we can!

[Jaques]

im a newcomer of 8 yrs in hastings which i now like to think of as Home - i love it, it saddens me to see the closure of the pier - i believe there was another at st. leonards - what is the latest news on this or is it just going to stand there till it rots. The last I heard the owners were considering building apartments as part of the redevelopment???

[Lily]

Hi Jaques, here's the very latest news on our pier:
http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/micha ... 6162818.jp

If you have a Facebook account, join the fan page for the battle for Hastings Pier here:
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/gro ... 9andref=ts

The HPWRT are opening a shop soon to help raise money toward the purchase and restoration of the pier. The location is the old Arthur Green shop in the White Rock area. I believe they're hoping to open over the Easter weekend.

It's looking very much like a light at the end of the tunnel for the pier!

[hayley]

we really would love the pier to be fixed ,it would be fantastic for the town

[thimble]

I have great faith the pier will be saved.It would be great if we have concerts again.I was speaking to some one from surrey who cant wait to live here.The word is we are becoming a little brighton in the art world.
I could not believe my ears that little old hastings is on the up.
WE NEED OUR PIER.

[Richard]

Hate to rock the boat but :-

1. how much money is required to re-establish a secure structure at today's reckoning and how are we going to raise the sums required for redevelopment once that has been acheived ?


2. how can the Council compulsorily purchase the Pier if the owner cannot be traced and served notice ?

[Geoff]

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Richard wrote:
Hate to rock the boat but :-

1. how much money is required to re-establish a secure structure at today's reckoning and how are we going to raise the sums required for redevelopment once that has been acheived ?

2. how can the Council compulsorily purchase the Pier if the owner cannot be traced and served notice ?

[/quoted]


Hi Richard

The Trust have a series of fundraising events planned. There's one coming up next month which sounds interesting. Hopefully it will be good weather and there will be plenty of people attending.

More details at_ _ _
http://hpwrt.co.uk/2011/02/party-on-the ... 2th-march/

I don't know about the in's and out's of compulsory purchase, but I believe the owning company is based in Panama.

Please try and stay positive, I for one think we can make this happen if we are all behind the project.

Hopefully see you at Party on the Prom,

Geoff

[Richard]

I must say there are several schools of thought here
At first I too was quite dismayed by the activity of the arsonists but soon realized that the Pier as such is now actually more appealing as a blank canvas to hang ideas upon

The old pier framework looked like an old human body clogged up with problem structures acquired over a good many years_ _ _

Now it looks like the very first pier as it was intended
What do people want to see and will they be able to influence this or will this be decided only by Trustees and funding providers ??

I only ask as an interested observer but obviously it will seem like I am carping in order to play ideas about

I think a very modern pier structure with a gradual descent to an undersea aquarium would be interesting - even scary ?

I suppose almost anything would be better than a closed pier for the next ten years