Hastings Pier this Lunchtime, CLOSED!
I've been away over the weekend, and guess what happened, indeed, Hastings Pier was sold to the owner of Eastbourne Pier, Mr Gulzar, a businessman who doesn't appear to be too successful when taking note of comments about the other Pier miles over from our west side! Even more worrying is that he doesn't appear to have any plans about what to do with it, he got it for less money than Friends of Hastings Pier were prepared to pay, reported to be a mere £50,000, for a pier that has had £14 million or so from the Heritage Lottery Fund, and, again it is reported, that he can sell it after 2 years... it doesn't look too promising does it, but it does look suspicious!?!
I've regularly reported about
Friends of Hastings Pier, who actually do have a plan, and today I read Jess Steele's excellent explanation of funding '
How the Money Works' (
link), which is well worth the read, please don't have an opinion until you do read it, else you'll not really have an informed opinion! I'm guessing there will be some sort of demonstration tomorrow, because the Pier is reported to be reopening tomorrow (Tuesday 19th June), presumably with labour coming in from Eastbourne?
In the meantime, there is an online petition '
Why have the Heritage Lottery Fund sold Hastings Pier?' (
link) to sign, if you, like me, believe what has happened to be very suspicious, consequently it really does need to be investigated by someone in authority, surely?!? Whatever, watch this space, there's
something fishy going on...
And I've not even mentioned shareholders being ignored and getting no recompense, supporters buying planks and making donations, etc etc...
Here is the
Heritage Lottery Fund Statement.
