Cabinet report on Hastings United Football Club

Hastings Borough Council's Cabinet is set to discuss a report into Hastings United Football Club's plans to build a new stadium at Tile Kiln and a housing development at their current Pilot Field ground.

The report was requested at Full Council in December 2022 and sets out the history of the discussions and negotiations between the football club and the council, which have been on-going since 2017.

The report outlines how certain conditions were set out by the council that the club needed to achieve before a further report could be brought back to Cabinet or Full Council to confirm the sale of council land to allow the scheme to go ahead.

The conditions included, among others, consulting with the local community, providing a business case showing that the sale of the land would generate sufficient funds to develop and sustain a new football stadium and signing a draft Heads of Terms document which included an £8m bond to safeguard the interests of council taxpayers in the proposed scheme. None of these have been met to the council's satisfaction.

The report concludes that there is no viable scheme for the council to support.

The council will not be making any further comment on this until after the Cabinet meeting on Monday 5 June.

The report will be discussed by the council's Cabinet on Monday 5 June at 6pm. You can watch the meeting online and read the full report online.