Welcome

St Leonards is a ‘New’ town, built as it was some 180 years ago from almost nothing. This means that it has always welcomed, and depended on, incomers. Even the longest established families came here, maybe just from Hastings, but many from much further afield.

There continues to be a flow of new residents today – some will be transient, others will stay put and become part of the community – but everyone of them has the same rights to participate fully in what St Leonards has to offer – the sea, the parks, the architecture, but also the artistic freedom, the quirkiness, the tolerance, that characterise the ethos of this place.

Gensing and Central St Leonards Forum is committed to working towards making the local community safe and prosperous and to helping everyone to find their place in that community.