White Rock Gardens is the second largest park in Hastings and St Leonards and will be celebrating its centenary in 2004. Now there is an opportunity to improve this important area.
Hastings Borough Council has allocated £200,000 to improve the west side of the Gardens. In addition money has been set aside to replace the indoor bowling centre. With the exciting new 5-point plan for the town, more funding could be attracted.
The Council has therefore prepared this Masterplan for the Gardens to ensure that the most is made of the opportunities and that improvements reflect local views.
The Masterplan is based on input from over 200 people who attended two Community Design Days in February, 116 people who submitted written or drawn suggestions in response to the first consultation flyer and 110 people who commented on the Draft Masterplan published in the Summer Issue of the Council’s ‘About’ magazine.
Eight main objectives have been identified and refined through this public consultation, and over 60 detailed proposals for achieving them. These range from fairly simple improvements which can be implemented quite soon, to more visionary ideas which will need further investigation and fund raising.
The overall strategy is to build on and develop the many successful things already happening, at the same time as exploring a range of new initiatives designed to realise the tremendous potential of the area during the Gardens’ second century.
Left: Community Design Days at White Rock Theatre included interactive displays, a ‘design for real’ model and workshop sessions for special interest groups.
This Masterplan will now be used to guide the improvement programme. The next step will be to undertake detailed feasibility and design work on the proposals and then draw up an implementation programme.
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This page last updated: 07/12/2004