Priory Street
It was resolved at the last meeting of the year that the occupiers of property in Priory street should be served with a notice to put the street in proper repair; and that in default of their doing so, the work would be done by the Board and the cost be recovered by means of a private improvement rate. At the same meeting it was also resolved to comply with a memorial from the occupiers of four houses in White-rock place to replace a piece of dilapidated brick pavement with York stone. This was to be the last piece of brick pavement along the front.
Steps in Saxon Road
At the November meeting an offer of Mr. Peter’s was accepted to remove the steps in Saxon road, in the rear of Grand parade, which had been complained of on condition that the Board would make some alterations required to give the tenants access to his property, which could be done at a cost of £14, of which sum Dr. Blakistone had guaranteed a contribution of £8.
H. E. Wyatt and Mount Pleasant Road
Mr. Wyatt having complained that in excavating for a house at the bottom of St. Mary’s terrace, the earth had been thrown upon his land, the Town Clerk, at the February meeting of the Council explained that what Mr. Wyatt claimed as his land was a portion of the roadway that had been dedicated, thereby becoming the property of the Board. The earth had been deposited with a view of making the roadway wide enough for a carriage to turn round, and as soon as the weather was a little settled it was intended to place steps and a handrail leading therefrom.
Mr. Wyatt’s Liberal Offer
At the Spring Assizes in 1859 (see Chap. LXII) a successful suit was tried against Mr. Wyatt for blocking up a public highway, and in December of that year, the same gentleman offered to give up the existing road passing his mansion at Mount Pleasant on condition that the Local Board should make a new road (for which he would give up the land) from the N.W. end of St. Mary’s terrace, to join the one already made. The Board then declined the offer on the ground that they could not legally spend money in making a new road. They, however, would agree to take the existing road from Ore lane to Priory road, in its then state if Mr. Wyatt would make the new road himself. And now, at the Council meeting on Nov. 2nd, the following letter was read, as received by the Town Clerk :-
- "Mount Pleasant” Hastings, Oct. 27th, 1860
- “Dear Sir, - In reply to yours, conveying the views given at a meeting of the Hastings Local Board of Health, that they cannot legally make a road from St. Mary’s terrace, but are willing to take the present road running -
