The contractors Hawes are on site at Project Art Works and the development of the Arches is under way.
The works will greatly improve the Arches, resurface the front yard and provide completely new studio spaces in Arch 3 (the one nearest the railway line). If all goes well the site will look something like this by mid April 2025:
The funders for the Arches development are: Arts Council England, Wolfson Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, Clothworkers Foundation, Foyle Foundation, and Levelling Up Partnership funding (who have also funded some of the development work at Trinity Hall as well as the Architectural Heritage Fund).
Full details of the scheme can be found on Hastings Borough Council’s planning portal: https://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?keyVal=_HSTBC_DCAPR_120764&activeTab=summary