{"id":815989,"date":"2026-10-28T00:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815989\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T00:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T00:44:15","slug":"hastings-tennis-and-padel-centre-planned-for-white-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/815989\/","title":{"rendered":"Hastings tennis and padel centre planned for White Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The development is planned for White Rock Gardens in Hastings and would be funded by \u00a31 million from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, via Sport England.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A further \u00a3300,000 would be delivered through the Lawn Tennis Association and Hastings Borough Council would also contribute \u00a3500,000 towards the project.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If secured, the funding would see three covered tennis courts and three covered padel courts built in the gardens.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Ivan Horsfall-Turner, Cllr Glenn Haffenden and Toby Reed at the pop-up padel courts in White Rock Gardens\"\/>Ivan Horsfall-Turner, Freedom Leisure, Cllr Glenn Haffenden and Toby Reed, Freedom Leisure, at the pop-up padel courts in White Rock Gardens during the summer (Image: Hastings Borough Council)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Councillor Glenn Haffenden, leader of the council and lead councillor for sport and leisure, said: &#8220;It is fantastic news that we are being considered for this funding, and I\u2019d like to thank the LTA for their support of this project.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The success of the pop-up padel courts at White Rock Gardens over the summer has shown that there is a demand for padel in Hastings, and this funding would allow us to bring covered courts that can be used all year round to help keep Hastings\u2019 residents active.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The popularity of padel is growing across the country and we are keen to provide excellent facilities for our residents.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Over the summer, hundreds of people enjoyed the pop-up courts which opened in mid-June.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The temporary courts were part of a summer scheme to introduce Hastings residents to the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The development is planned for White Rock Gardens in Hastings and would be funded by \u00a31 million from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-815989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}