Hastings Borough Council

Hastings Borough Council
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Type
Type
Leadership
Judy Rogers,
Labour
since 22 May 2024[1]
Julia Hilton,
Green
since 17 January 2024
Jane Hartnell
Structure
Seats32 councillors
Political groups
Administration (12)
  Green (12)
Opposition (20)
  Labour (8)
  Conservative (5)
  Independent (7)
Length of term
4 years
Elections
Last election
2 May 2024
Next election
7 May 2026
Meeting place
Muriel Matters House, Breeds Place, Hastings, TN34 3UY
Website
www.hastings.gov.uk

Hastings Borough Council is the local authority for Hastings in East Sussex, England. Hastings has had a council since medieval times, which has been reformed on numerous occasions. Since 1974, Hastings has been a non-metropolitan district with borough status.

The council has been under no overall control since 2022. Following the 2024 election a Green Party minority administration formed to run the council. The council is based at Muriel Matters House on the seafront.

The area covered by the council in East Sussex

History

Hastings was an ancient borough. It was given the right to appoint a mayor in 1589.[2] It was reformed in 1836 under the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 to become a municipal borough, governed by a body formally called the "mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Hastings", generally known as the corporation or town council. When elected county councils were established in 1889 under the Local Government Act 1888 it was decided that Hastings was sufficiently large to provide its own county-level services and so it was made a county borough, independent from East Sussex County Council.[3]

On 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the borough became a non-metropolitan district within the non-metropolitan county of East Sussex, giving East Sussex County Council jurisdiction over the town as a higher-tier authority for the first time.[4][5] Hastings kept its borough status, allowing the council to take the name Hastings Borough Council and letting the chair of the council take the title of mayor, continuing Hastings' series of mayors dating back to 1589.[6]

Governance

Hastings Borough Council provides district-level services. County-level services are provided by East Sussex County Council.[7] There are no civil parishes in the borough, which is an unparished area.[8]

Political control

The council has been under no overall control since the 2022 election. A Labour and Green coalition formed after that election, but separated five months later in October 2022, after which Labour ran the council as a minority administration.[9]

In December 2023, six Labour councillors — including the Leader and Deputy Leader — resigned the party in protest at Keir Starmer's leadership and formed a new group, the Hastings Independents.[10] Over the following week, they were joined by two more Labour councillors.[11][12] The group has criticised the national party's 'micromanaging' of local elections, and its position on the Israel–Hamas war.[13][14] In January 2024 a new administration comprising the Greens and the former Labour councillors took over the council, led by Green councillor Julia Hilton.[15]

Following the 2024 election a Green Party minority administration was formed.[16]

Political control of the council since the 1974 reforms has been as follows:[17][18]

Party in control Years
No overall control 1974–1976
Conservative 1976–1980
No overall control 1980–1996
Liberal Democrats 1996–1998
Labour 1998–2004
No overall control 2004–2006
Conservative 2006–2007
No overall control 2007–2010
Labour 2010–2022
No overall control 2022–present

Leadership

The role of mayor is largely ceremonial in Hastings. Political leadership is instead provided by the leader of the council. The leaders since 2001 have been:[19]

Councillor Party From To
Jeremy Birch[20] Labour 2001 17 May 2006
Peter Pragnell Conservative 17 May 2006 19 May 2010
Jeremy Birch Labour 19 May 2010 6 May 2015
Peter Chowney Labour 20 May 2015 18 Mar 2020
Kim Forward Labour 18 Mar 2020 13 Apr 2022
Paul Barnett[10] Labour 13 Apr 2022 14 Dec 2023
Independent 14 Dec 2023 17 Jan 2024
Julia Hilton Green 17 Jan 2024

Composition

Following the 2024 election the composition of the council was:

Party Councillors
Green 12
Labour 8
Independent 7
Conservative 5
Total 32

Six of the independent councillors (all of whom were originally elected as Labour before leaving the party)[10] sit together as the "Hastings Independent Group".[21] The next election is due in 2026.[22]

Premises

The council is based at a modern office building called Muriel Matters House on Breeds Place, overlooking the seafront.[23]

Hastings Town Hall, Queens Road: Council's headquarters until 2012.

The council was previously based at the Town Hall on Queens Road, which had been built in 1881.[24] The council met and had its offices at Town Hall until 2012.[25] Most of the council's offices then moved to Aquila House on Breeds Place, which the council initially rented. In 2016 the council purchased Aquila House, renamed it Muriel Matters House after Muriel Matters (1877–1969) who had lived in the town, and created a new council chamber in the building.[26][27]

Elections

See also: Hastings Borough Council elections

Since the last boundary changes in 2018 the council has comprised 32 councillors representing 16 wards, with each ward electing two councillors. Elections are held in alternate years, with half the council (one councillor for each ward) being elected each time for a four-year term of office.[28]

References

  1. ^ "Council minutes, 22 May 2024". Hastings Borough Council. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  2. ^ Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Municipal Corporations in England and Wales: Appendix 2. 1835. p. 997.
  3. ^ "Relationships and changes Hastings CB/MB through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
  4. ^ "The English Non-metropolitan Districts (Definition) Order 1972", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 1972/2039, retrieved 31 May 2023
  5. ^ "Hastings Borough Council". The National Archives. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
  6. ^ "District Councils and Boroughs, 28 March 1974". Hansard. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Local Government Act 1972", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1972 c. 70, retrieved 31 May 2023
  8. ^ "Election Maps". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  9. ^ Oxburgh, Huw (21 October 2022). "Labour has new cabinet at Hastings Borough Council after split with Greens". Sussex World. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  10. ^ a b c Wright, Charlotte; Lee, Shola (15 December 2023). "Hastings Borough Council: Leader and five other councillors quit Labour". BBC News Online. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  11. ^ Mureddu-Reid, Hamish (16 December 2023). "Seventh Hastings councillor quits Labour to join new group". BBC News Online. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  12. ^ Oxburgh, Hugh (19 December 2023). "Hastings Borough Council: Eighth councillor quits local Labour group". BBC News Online. Retrieved 19 December 2023.
  13. ^ Dillon, Rick (2024-02-27). "Chaos in Hastings after surprise Labour split". Sussex Bylines. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  14. ^ "Labour Cabinet defections rock HBC – more likely to follow". hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  15. ^ Luck, Flaminia; Lucinda, Adam (17 January 2024). "Hastings council elects new leader Julia Hilton". BBC News. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  16. ^ McLaughlin, Paul (5 June 2024). "Green takeover, independents frozen out". Hastings Independent. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
  17. ^ "Compositions calculator". The Elections Centre. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  18. ^ "Hastings". BBC News Online. 19 April 2008. Retrieved 2009-12-11.
  19. ^ "Council minutes". Hastings Borough Council. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
  20. ^ "Memories of Jeremy Birch". Hastings in Focus. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2022. Jeremy Birch was leader of Hastings Borough Council between 2001 and 2006 and then again from 2010 until his death in 2015.
  21. ^ "My councillors by political grouping". Hastings Borough Council. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  22. ^ "Election timetable in England". UK Government. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
  23. ^ "Council office locations". Hastings Borough Council. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  24. ^ Historic England. "Town Hall (1245060)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  25. ^ "Council summons, 18 April 2012" (PDF). Hastings Borough Council. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  26. ^ "Hastings council agrees to buy its seafront home". SussexWorld. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  27. ^ "Council offices renamed after suffragist". Sussex World. 30 December 2016. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
  28. ^ "The Hastings (Electoral Changes) Order 2016", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, SI 2016/1228, retrieved 21 August 2023

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