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Hastings Pier

The pier on the seafront at White Rock. It is privately owned; the borough council doesn't run it.

Hastings Pier24 White Rock (Granted permission, 25 May, Castle)24 Eversfield Place (Granted permission, 3 Aug, Central St Leonards)21 White Rock (Granted permission, 10 Aug, Castle)26 Eversfield Place (New application, 27 Aug, Central St Leonards)24 Eversfield Place (New application, 2 Oct, Central St Leonards)
The lights are the 5 things on the record within 300 metres in the last year. What’s near Hastings Pier on the full map

In the council's papers

11 papers on the record mention Hastings Pier. Where the mention is in the text, the sentence is quoted.

Asset of community value

From the borough council's register. What listing means, and every entry.

Listed and protected

Historic England’s entries within 200 m of the point this page’s map is centred on.

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

The coast and its plan

The Shoreline Management Plan for South Foreland to Beachy Head sets how each stretch of this coast is to be managed over three periods to 2105. Here is this stretch, in the Environment Agency’s SMP Explorer, with its erosion map’s figures.

4C24 Hastings (inc. the Harbour)

“Continue to protect the town and associated infrastructure, which are critical to regional economy, including protection and provision of beach.”

Policy: Hold the line (Maintain/replace) in all three periods, 2005 to 2105: “Where protection is currently provided by coastal defence structures or managed beaches, and the intention is to retain a defence along approximately the current alignment. This will involve replacing defences when needed. Defence type, method and standard of protection may be modified over time.”

The erosion map divides it into 22 frontages in Hastings. By 2105, with Shoreline Management Plans delivered: 0 m; with No Future Intervention: 14 to 110 m.

This unit in the SMP Explorer ↗

The figures are the width of the map’s erosion zone, inland from today’s shoreline, on the Higher Central allowance. In the Agency’s words: “Two periods: Medium Term (up to 2055) and Long Term (up to 2105).” “Two management scenarios: With Shoreline Management Plans delivered and No Future Intervention.” “Three climate scenarios: Present Day climate (2020), Higher Central allowance and Upper End allowance. The two allowances use sea level rise data from UKCP18 RCP8.5 70th and 95th percentiles respectively.” “All distances are cumulative over time and given in metres.”

Management approaches depend on funding and relevant approvals and permissions. Adaptation to coastal change may be needed. Even where defences are present, some risk from storm surges or ground instability may remain. Time periods (short (0 to 20 years), medium (20 to 50 years) and long (50 to 100)) are approximate and do not signify precise dates of management transitions. Where shown, coastal erosion projections are for guidance only. They show areas of land likely to be at risk but do not show the precise future position of the shoreline, nor specific information for individual properties.

The SMP Explorer’s note on every unit.

The data and associated information are intended for guidance only - it cannot provide details for individual properties.

The data shows areas of land likely to be at erosion risk but does not show the precise future position of the shoreline.

Erosion may happen faster or slower than what we show, and risk may change over time.

The Environment Agency’s warnings on its erosion map, from its description of the data ↗.

The coast on the map · The plan’s policy unit maps (PDF) ↗ · The plan (PDF) ↗ · The Environment Agency’s coastal erosion map ↗

Coastal erosion and the Shoreline Management Plan: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2015. Open Government Licence v3.0. Fetched 2026-10-12.

Money

A floor, not what Hastings Pier 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.

Because the pier is privately owned, no service area in the council's files is for running it. The one that names it is for costs of its closure, paid in 2018 and 2019.

The borough council's payments

£97,280 in 16 payments from February 2018 to August 2019, booked to the council's service areas named below.

0£50k£100k£150k2017/18: £15.7k2017/182018/19: £80k2018/19£80k2019/20: £1.5k2019/20
Every financial year as a figure
2017/18£15.7k
2018/19£80k
2019/20£1.5k

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 Pier”. 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 Pier\b”. Service areas matched: Hastings Pier - Closure.

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.