A wander along the Seafront

The annual moving the shale around to help reclaim the beach at St Leonards, OK, not as nice weather as this actually, I took this photograph 4 years ago, but...

It still needs to be done, the result of storms throughout the year, particularly during the winter just ended, so, this weekend's effort, and what a difference blue sky makes!

And where the Azur/St Leonards beach huts return to every year has been cleared too, so I'm guessing they will be returning soon from their winter rest at Bulverhythe...

Last Sunday, and the Pipe Band who played before the start of the Hastings Half Marathon, with the 5 of 6 caravans I've previously mentioned shifted to the corner of the car parking in the background of the photograph.

And they're still there, very cosy!

Housing in Hastings, hmmm...

A wander out, quite nice weather, and at Sea Road, by Grosvenor Gardens, I noticed 5 caravans docked without number plates on them (that first one on the right had a wee cat looking out at me as I took the photograph!). Now, we know that mobile caravans do park overnight in such places, but these 5 non-motorised caravans have been docked here for ages! Is this a new way of solving the housing crisis? Apparently no council tax or rent required, sadly I do still have to pay my council tax and rent!

While talking about housing problems... these flats in Undercliffe, below West Ascent, St Leonards, have still not been built! Despite approval being given in 1966, work starting in 1972, then the dodgy underpinning that meant gardens behind slipped and work had to cease, then the builders went bankrupt, I was told. That's 52 years since approval, and they look like they'll not be built in the next 52 years either! 

No wonder there's a housing shortage...