News & Thoughts

Hastings Commons have been awarded gold in the prestigious 2025 World Habitat Award in partnership with UN-Habitat. This marks Hastings as the only place in the UK to be recognised amongst the nine winning global projects.  The World Habitat awards were established in 1985 to celebrate, identify and promote good habitat practices. This year, entries were received from 55...Continue reading→

‘Why I spent £85k of my own money to help fix Britain’s housing crisis’ in the BBC

Listen to the: AJ Climate Champions podcast with IF_DO’s Sarah Castle

‘Time to dump the housing ladder’: Inside the fightback against the temporary housing crisis by Greg Barradale of Big Issue

Our Community Land Trust annual report is now available Here are some highlights from the report: This year we launched many new projects and programmes, including the Hastings Youth Commons evening club: March 2024 also signalled the end of the 4 year Trinity Triangle project. Here are some of the outcomes: Here is a quick...Continue reading→

Hastings Commons has been awarded a £1 million grant from the Hastings Towns Fund to support the delivery of 12 affordable, sustainable and energy efficient homes in the Observer Building, which is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. The OB Homes project will repurpose 765sqm of previously derelict floor space on the second and third floors...Continue reading→

Read about the Observer Building renovation with an architectural focus in the Riba Journal

by Jess Kinch (a young person who took part in the programme) What is Commoning the Programme and how did you get involved? Commoning The Programme was an opportunity that I and other young students were given where we commissioned an artist for the Coastal Currents Art Festival. I got involved when people from OBX...Continue reading→

6th/7th/8th September: Dream/Time & Invented Futures  Made collaboratively in Hastings and thinking into the future, Hastings Commons & OBX are proud to present two new art works as part of Coastal Currents 2024.  Dream/Time, by artist Mark Lawson Bell, has been chosen through a programme by OBX (at Hastings Commons) called ‘Commoning the Programme 1’. Over 12 weekly...Continue reading→

Hastings Commons have launched a new programme called ‘Alley Way Learning,’ and will be holding an open day on 10th August between 11am – 1pm in Priory Meadow shopping centre (Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1PH). The programme, which is designed to make learning accessible to the local community, takes inspiration and consultation from the successful Australian...Continue reading→