The council’s Grotbuster initiative is continuing to have significant success in turning around run down and derelict buildings and other unattractive sites in Hastings and has once again achieved excellent results, this time in St Andrews Square.
Last year, councillors and council officers went on a Grotbuster walk in the St Andrews Square area to identify properties that were in need of action because of their poor appearance. As a result, warnings and/or enforcement notices were issued to a number of owners and successful legal action was taken against another.
“The action taken by the Grotbuster team has resulted in improvements being carried out to a number of properties in the St Andrews Square area and work being carried out on other properties as well” said Cllr Kim Forward Hastings Borough Council’s lead member for housing.
“One of our priorities is to build better neighbourhoods and the Grotbuster scheme is helping us to do this. The cumulative effect around St Andrews Square has meant a big improvement in the overall appearance of the whole area which is great news for the people who live there and the town as a whole” added Cllr Forward.
The continuing work of the Grotbuster initiative has resulted in over 700 properties, structures and areas of land improved across the borough since the scheme began.
