The Friends of Hastings Pier have made a bold request ........

..........to the administrators to be allowed to run the pier during the second half of the year. 

It has become clear that the Friends are competing not only against the owner of Eastbourne pier, Abid Gulzar, as had recently been thought, but other bidders too.

If the administrators agree to the FoHP proposal, it will give the Friends a chance to show that they can do the job and allow them more time both to bring in alternative funds and to persuade the council to look seriously at their proposal that the Foreshore Trust should acquire the freehold of the pier as a means of securing community ownership in perpetuity. The charity committee which runs the Foreshore Trust is due to meet on Monday 25 June.

See more at http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/hot-topics/campaigns/friends-make-bold-request-to-run-the-pier