Hastings Seafood and Wine Festival
Accessibility Information
The Hastings Seafood and Wine Festival Site
We aim for this festival to be inclusive and accessible to a wide range of people and abilities, so an access audit of the site has been carried out by a local access auditing organisation. This has helped inform the festival plans and layout. Wheelchair and buggy access has been considered in the entertainments marquee on the beach - there will be hard wooden flooring laid throughout the marquee. Woven coconut matting will lead up to the marquee entrance from the concrete roadway adjacent.
The main festival site, where the food stalls are located, is in the Rock a Nore car park. There are no steps on the site.
The Old Town
George Street is pedestrianised but the rest of the Old Town has narrow and uneven paving. The seafront has high kerbs but there are some pedestrian crossings with tactile paving.
Parking / Drop off point
A designated drop-off area for disabled persons (which will be signed) will be located at the eastern end of the Rock a Nore road.
Rock-a-Nore is a rough surface car park, located at the end of Rock a Nore Road on the beach at the Eastern end of Hastings seafront, in the Old Town. Disabled parking can be found in the area of the Motorboat and Yacht Club.
Number of disabled parking spaces: 14
Height restriction: 2.2 metres (7' 2")
Pelham Place Car Park
Located on the A259 on Hastings sea front between the Pier and the Old Town, opposite St Mary in the Castle.
Number of disabled parking spaces: 18
Height restriction: 2.2 metres (7' 2")
The Bourne Car Park
Located on the A259 in Hastings Old Town, next to the Stables Theatre, with pedestrian access from the car park into the High Street.
Number of disabled parking spaces: 2
Height restriction: 2.2 metres (7' 2")
Toilets
There are three public toilet blocks with disabled access on the seafront:
- Pelham Car Park: on the A259 on the seafront between the Pier and the Old Town, opposite St Mary in the Castle
- The Stade area at the beginning of Rock a Nore Road and another block at the end of Rock a Nore Road opposite Blue Reef Aquarium.
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