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The Observer Building

The former Hastings Observer newspaper building on Cambridge Road.

The Observer Building19 Robertson Street (Refused permission, 18 May, Castle)Crowleys, Public House (Granted permission, 25 May, Castle)24 White Rock (Granted permission, 25 May, Castle)19 Robertson Street (New application, 1 Jun, Castle)Hastings Central Library, 13 Claremont (New application, 3 Jun, Castle)25 Havelock Road (Prior approval refused, 8 Jun, Castle)Newsagents, 6A Bank Buildings (New application, 11 Jun, Castle)42 Redmayne Drive (Granted permission, 22 Jun, Castle)Former Head Post Office, 16 Cambridge Road (New application, 23 Jun, Castle)19 Robertson Street (Granted permission, 29 Jun, Castle)Hastings Central Library, 13 Claremont (Raise no objection, 13 Jul, Castle)39 Cambridge Road (New application, 14 Jul, Castle)39 Cambridge Road (Withdrawn by applicant, 27 Jul, Castle)45 Robertson Street (Granted permission, 27 Jul, Castle)Part first floor. 1-3 Robertson Street, (Former Owens) (Granted permission, 27 Jul, Castle)18 Havelock Road (New application, 29 Jul, Castle)First and Second Floors 25 Havelock Road (New application, 7 Aug, Castle)21 White Rock (Granted permission, 10 Aug, Castle)Holy Trinity Church, Robertson Street (Granted permission, 17 Aug, Castle)Shop, 7 Bank Buildings (Prior approval approved, 24 Aug, Castle)Lansdowne Hotel, 1-2 Robertson Terrace (New application, 26 Aug, Castle)Pothole more than 30 cm wide or 6 cm deep (Reported 29 Aug near Cornwallis Gardens)18 Havelock Road (Refused permission, 31 Aug, Castle)The Creative Media Centre, 44-45 Robertson Street (Prior approval approved, 7 Sep, Castle)6 Cambridge Road (New application, 17 Sep, Castle)8 Cambridge Road (New application, 17 Sep, Castle)Street cleaning (Reported 21 Sep near Robertson Terrace)First and Second Floors 25 Havelock Road (Prior approval approved, 28 Sep, Castle)Former Head Post Office, 16 Cambridge Road (Prior approval refused, 28 Sep, Castle)2 Cambridge Gardens (New application, 7 Oct, Castle)New white arrow road markings issue (Reported 9 Oct near Cornwallis Terrace)1-3 Robertson Street (Former Owens) (New application, 14 Oct, Castle)Newsagents, 6A Bank Buildings (Granted permission, 19 Oct, Castle)
The lights are the 33 things on the record within 300 metres in the last year. What’s near The Observer Building on the full map

In the council's papers

6 papers on the record mention The Observer Building. Where the mention is in the text, the sentence is quoted.

On the council's land and assets list

1 entry on the borough council's list uses this page's words in its name or address. The list is the council's statement of what it holds; it is quoted, not checked. The whole list.

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.

Money

No service area in the borough council's payments files names the building.

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: “Observer Building”. 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: none. Service areas matched: none.

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.