Reporting Potholes & Other Highway Problems

This photograph is from the SinkySnap facebook page, many thanks (more about this further down), but it's an excellent and creative method of highlighting problems with potholes, and the photograph is of a very local pothole.* To report any highway problems, concerning potholes, trees, vegetation, street lighting, footpaths, road markings, whatever, you can do so at the East Sussex County Council website.

As I've said recently (blog), together with more money coming from central government, and by raising money from other areas, ESCC has said it is hoping to increase council spending on highways to nearly £34 million for East Sussex, including drainage work, and the patching and repair of potholes, fingers crossed.

And SinkySnap? Well, apart from highlighting problems with potholes on facebook, and they are also on twitter, although haven't posted anything there this year, yet, but the mind behind it is that of a local artist, I'll cut & paste below from her etsy shop site how she describes her project:

"Rediscoving my childhood toys a few years ago, I've carried on playing ~ this time with a camera and my aquired adult skills of prop and scenery making to create stories and iconic homages featuring Sindy, Barbie, Action Man and all their 1/6th scale chums. Most recently producing the 'Pothole' series, highlighting the terrible state of our roads by assembling a tableau in or around the offending pothole, usually in the middle of a street!"

I'm now following both pages. 👍

*Winchelsea Road/Rock Lane 

Save the Isabel Blackman Centre!

Due to austerity cuts thanks to central government, East Sussex County Council have planned to stop day services being provided at the Isabel Blackman Centre, that is, 'social care facilities for adults over 50 suffering from... dementia; stroke; learning disabilities and other long-term conditions.'

This has been going on for a while now, but consultation time is quickly shortening. There are petitions around town, and online (for example at the ESCC website), which need to be completed soon should you wish to support these continued facilities for vulnerable people in Hastings; the ESCC online petition runs until the 12th of October.

Once it's gone that will be it sadly...