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Hastings Castle and the West Hill

The Norman castle ruins on the West Hill above the Old Town, the West Hill itself and the West Hill Lift.

Hastings Castle and the West HillFlat 4, 3 Pelham Crescent (New application, 12 May, Castle)Nationwide, Bank and Premises (New application, 21 May, Castle)Roadways and footpaths at Pelham Crescent (Granted permission, 8 Jun, Castle)38 George Street (New application, 11 Jun, Old Hastings)Flat 4, 3 Pelham Crescent (Granted permission, 22 Jun, Castle)Roadways and Footpaths at Pelham Crescent (New application, 25 Jun, Castle)Offices and Premises, 9 Wellington Square (Withdrawn by applicant, 29 Jun, Castle)West Hill Cafe, Castle Hill Road (Granted permission, 6 Jul, Castle)26 George Street (New application, 9 Jul, Old Hastings)Nationwide, Bank and Premises (Granted permission, 13 Jul, Castle)7 Wellington Square (Granted permission, 13 Jul, Castle)Footpath HAS/288/1 adjoining West Hill Cafe, Castle Hill Road (New application, 14 Jul, Castle)Roadways and footpaths at Pelham Crescent (New application, 17 Jul, Castle)38 George Street (Granted permission, 3 Aug, Old Hastings)7 Wellington Square (Granted permission, 3 Aug, Castle)Footpath HAS/288/1 adjoining West Hill Cafe, Castle Hill Road (Granted permission, 10 Aug, Castle)Roadways and Footpaths at Pelham Crescent (Granted permission, 10 Aug, Castle)19 Wellington Square (New application, 10 Aug, Castle)The Deluxe, 2-6 Pelham Place (New application, 21 Aug, Castle)34 Wellington Square (Granted permission, 24 Aug, Castle)19 Wellington Square (Granted permission, 31 Aug, Castle)3 Pelham Crescent (New application, 8 Sep, Castle)West Hill Cafe, Castle Hill Road (New application, 10 Sep, Castle)West Hill Cafe, Castle Hill Road (Granted permission, 14 Sep, Castle)Roadways and footpaths at Pelham Crescent (Granted permission, 14 Sep, Castle)Flytipping (Reported 5 Oct near Albion Lane)The Deluxe, 2-6 Pelham Place (Granted permission, 12 Oct, Castle)26 George Street (Granted permission, 12 Oct, Old Hastings)Flat 2, 3 Pelham Crescent (Granted permission, 12 Oct, Castle)39-41 George Street (Granted permission, 19 Oct, Old Hastings)3 Pelham Crescent (Granted permission, 26 Oct, Castle)
The lights are the 31 things on the record within 300 metres in the last year. What’s near Hastings Castle and the West Hill on the full map

In the council's papers

94 papers on the record mention Hastings Castle and the West Hill. The newest 12 are listed. Where the mention is in the text, the sentence is quoted.

Planning applications

7 planning records name it in the address or the proposal. Each links to the council's file.

On the council's land and assets list

8 entries on the borough council's list use this page's words in their name or address. The list is the council's statement of what it holds; it is quoted, not checked. The whole list.

Listed and protected

Historic England’s entries within 200 m of the point this page’s map is centred on, and scheduled monuments and registered parks within 400 m.

…and 34 more nearby on the full list.

Listed buildings: © Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Money

A floor, not what Hastings Castle and the West Hill cost. These are payments over £250 that Hastings Borough Council published, counted only where it booked them to a service area whose name matches this page's rule. The council's files on this record start in January 2018. Payments booked to other budgets, staff time, and money paid by other bodies (the county council, a private owner, a grant-giver) aren't here.

The borough council's payments

£789,223 in 223 payments from January 2018 to August 2026, booked to the council's service areas named below.

0£200k£400k£600k2017/18: £3.5k2017/182018/19: £19.2k2018/192019/20: £8.5k2019/202020/21: £8.7k2020/212022/23: £5462022/232023/24: £10.7k2023/242024/25: £25.5k2024/252025/26: £510k2025/26£510k2026/27: £202k so far2026/27
Every financial year as a figure
2017/18£3.5k
2018/19£19.2k
2019/20£8.5k
2020/21£8.7k
2022/23£546
2023/24£10.7k
2024/25£25.5k
2025/26£510k
2026/27£202k

By service area

Who was paid

A payee the council's file names as a person is shown as “a named individual”.

How this page is built

A council paper, consultation or planning record is listed when its title or text uses any of these phrases as whole words, in any case: “Hastings Castle”, “West Hill”. Not counted: “West Hill Road”. A match says the paper mentions the place, not that it is about it.

Payments are counted when the borough council booked them to a service area whose name matches any of these patterns: “Hastings Castle”, “\bCastle Access\b”, “West Hill”. Service areas matched: ES28 Castle Access / Interpretation; Hastings Castle; Hastings Castle and West Hill Café Project; National Lottery West Hill Lift(WHL) Feasibility Fund; TFC - Hastings Castle world heritage destination; West Hill Cliff Railway Capital Programme - Major works identified to ensure long term safety and commercial viability.

The rules are in config/places.yaml, published with the site's code.

Every landmark. Payments data published by Hastings Borough Council under the Local Government Transparency Code.