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Hastings and St Leonards Clean Water Action Group, which was formed last year, is staging the rally at noon by Azur in St Leonards.

Organisers are encouraging people to bring red flags and their own placards.

The move comes amid recent sewage discharges in the sea at Bexhill and across the south east.

Water testing in St Leonards after recent sewage discharges in the area. L-R: Clean Water Action supporters Jackie Innes, Councillor Amanda Jobson and Angela Gunning.

Last Wednesday evening (August 17) in a tweet, Rother District Council (RDC), advised people to avoid Bexhill beach and stay out of the sea ‘until further notice’.

The authority said that there had been a sewage discharge from the Galley Hill pumping station earlier that evening due to a ‘technical issue’, which was later resolved.

On the same evening, Southern Water said in a tweet that ‘significant issues with electrical power at one of (its) wastewater pumping stations caused a release into the sea at Bexhill’.

Normans Bay beach was also closed off.

Water testing in St Leonards after recent sewage discharges in the area. L-R: Clean Water Action supporters Angela Gunning and Councillor Amanda Jobson

Hastings protest against sewage discharges to be held