Hastings Ice Rink: Whatever Happened To It?
Aracely Walker
2025-06-09 10:15:57
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Planet Ice will close in just a few weeks for a year-long refurbishment. Teams who use the facility are now calling for a temporary site to be created, so that players can continue to train in the town. It's due to close for refurbishment leaving teams with nowhere local to train, and they fear the success built here could be lost for good.
Basingstoke and Deane Council said it hasn't ruled out putting a temporary rink in place whilst repairs are made to the existing building.
Rossie Bergstrom
2025-05-31 13:35:25
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It is with a very heavy heart and great reluctance that we have to announce the time has come to draw the Piertown project on Hastings Pier to a close. This also unfortunately means cancellation of the Ice Rink & Christmas Markets that were planned to open on Friday 22 November. All ticket holders will be contacted by Skiddle and will receive a full refund.
Hastings Christmas Ice Rink the council only stopped it because the pier can’t hold the weight of an ice rink. It was never going to happen as it’s been looked at before and vetoed. It would seem that the Piertown team had big dreams which for far too many people, myself included, turned into nothing but a nightmare.
Rodolfo Mann
2025-05-27 01:05:57
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According to the Hastings Observer in November 1974 Hastings White Rock Baths were to have a new look. It would be opened as an ice rink. The Hastings Observer reports that it survived as an ice rink until 1997 since when it slowly started to decay.
Haylie Douglas
2025-05-14 20:24:17
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The building survived as an ice rink until 1997 then it slowly started to decay before being reborn again as the award winning Source Skate Park just a few years ago. In the years before they closed for good the baths also operated as an ice rink and back in 2014 there were still some skates in the racks. According to the Hastings Observer in November 1974 Hastings White Rock Baths were to have a new look and were to be opened as an ice rink.
Darrel Hirthe
2025-05-06 06:45:09
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It was turned into an ice-skating rink in about 1979. It remained as such for the next 18 years, finally closing it's doors in 1997. It's been derelict ever since. Originally, the council wanted to save it as an ice rink, but no-one wanted to know. Then there were talks with the owners of the pier, who liked the idea of turning it into a live music arena. There were also plans to turn it into an underground carpark (an extension to the existing underground carparks).
Heidi Strosin
2025-05-06 05:46:21
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It is with a very heavy heart and great reluctance that we have to announce the time has come to draw the Piertown project on Hastings Pier to a close. This also unfortunately means cancellation of the ice rink and Christmas Markets that were planned to open on Friday 22 November. The overhead costs involved with attempting this project on the pier have became too onerous and too costly to continue any longer.
Piertown Hastings was launched in June 2023 by event organisers Damien Fell and Mark Dickson. In September the Hastings Observer reported that a Hastings Borough Council licensing panel met to review the terms of a premises licence, which allows music events and alcohol sales to take place on Hastings Pier.
Macey Doyle
2025-05-06 05:43:00
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The place has been shut for just over 15 years now, and people are looking for ideas on what to do with the place. Originally the baths was opened as Turkish baths, with all the bells and whistles of its era. Then for a long period it was the baths cinema, and finally in the late 1900's became the White Rock Ice Rink as it was last known by locals. It is situated near the pier and the White Rock Theatre (Hence its name).
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