Hastings flooding: Priory Meadow Shopping Centre closed 'until further notice'

A statement on the shopping centre’s website said: “Due to localised flooding, the mall and the car park are currently closed until further notice.”

The following businesses are currently open:

M&S

Pizza Express

Khalid's Kitchen

Age UK charity shop

Bonmarche

Specsavers

1066 Cafe and Bakery

Trespass

Vision Express

Priory Meadow closed on Monday morning (January 16). Resident Sarah Stewart, who was on the scene on Monday as she left the gym, described seeing ‘a large flooded area with water just pouring out of Priory Meadow’.

She said: “I’ve never seen anything like it! It was coming out so fast.”

Crews left the scene yesterday afternoon, after spending the day pumping water from affected shops and premises at Priory Meadow, and said the scene ‘has now been handed back to local centre management’.

While the floods have significantly reduced, it is still unclear when the remainder of the shops will reopen.

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See photos of the town as 'water pours out of Priory Meadow' and cars become submerged