Social Housing Needs versus Objectors/NIMBYs?

This is a combination of me out walking out along the seafront to Bulverhythe, then to Filsham Reedbed, and reading another excellent article in the Hastings Independent (website), which highlights the problems Hastings Borough Council have in building affordable and social housing, and what they are doing to try to solve the issue. That article is well worth the read, I recommend you do.

One of the objections to council plans comes from the Bulverthythe Protectors (website), who appear to be making reasonable objections to council plans for Bulverhythe, so it's not just the council versus simple NIMBY-ism, there's plenty more to it, and that goes for other areas of Hastings too. 

The Hastings Independent article explains that there is agreement among all political parties on the council that more social housing is required, but it appears to be the reality that they will never agree how to do anything, which is one of the reasons I stopped attending council meetings (it became monotonous the outright opposition to everything the council proposed by the political opposition).

Anyway, I thought it was worth writing this blog, a beautiful walk to Filsham Reedbed (which I've written about many times before, eg blog), if you ignore the crossing the main road at Bulverhythe 😉 and the attempts by Hastings Borough Council to build more affordable and social housing, and their difficulties and honest objections...