Category Archives: Ore Valley

Heart Break – Ore Valley let down again

Posted on November 29, 2019 by jesssteele

The decision to sell the former power station site at Ore Valley to a private developer rather than to Heart of Hastings community land trust is finally sinking in for me, a fortnight after it was announced. This is how … Continue reading →

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Investing Upside Down (ppt)

Posted on March 4, 2018 by jesssteele

Here’s a link to the slides I showed yesterday at the Labour Party #NewEconomics conference in Southampton. Plus the narrative notes. Investing Upside Down – Jess Steele Investing Upside Down – narrative

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I am losing my heart to Ore Valley

Posted on February 5, 2017 by jesssteele

  I feel like a love-struck teenager. I’ve always been in love with places, and always attracted to the underdogs – my towns Deptford and Hastings and all the other-people’s-places that I fall in love with: Blackpool, Scarborough, Bradford, Greater Manchester, Liverpool 8. If … Continue reading →

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