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The lights are the 2 things on the record here in the last year. Tap one for its details. What’s near Brook Way on the full map. Green dots are trees under a tree preservation order (indicative only).
Brook Way at a glance
Since December 2025: 2 planning decisions. Each dot is one of them, in the month it happened. Our planning records start in April 2026 and our council papers in September 2025, and street problems show only while they are open, so earlier months may look quieter than they really were.
Planning and building here
Closing dates you can still act on, applications and decisions on the street, appeals, the protections that cover it, and the council's land and licensing papers.
Closing dates on Brook Way
What you can still act on here, closing soonest first. Each says how to act and where its closing date comes from.
Every planning application and decision we hold for Brook Way, 2 in all (2 granted and 0 refused), newest first. Our record starts on 21 April 2026, from the council’s weekly lists; earlier applications here are on the council’s own planning search. An application made before then appears only if it was decided since, and then without its earlier dates.
Approval of details relating to access, appearance, scale, layout and landscaping pursuant to Out…
HS/DS/26/00190, decided in the week of Mon 25 May 2026. No comments from the public on the council’s file. The council’s file ↗
Conservation, listed buildings and protected trees
None of the town’s 18 conservation areas reaches Brook Way as mapped.
Measured along the street’s line against the council’s boundaries. Whether a particular building is inside depends on where the boundary runs: each area’s page on the council’s site has its map. All 18 conservation areas
The council’s Article 4 direction on houses in multiple occupation covers the whole town (in force since 2 July 2012): turning a house into a shared house for three to six people needs planning permission. The council’s page ↗
The council’s map data has no tree preservation order within about 40 m of Brook Way’s line.
Indicative only — the council’s order is what counts. The council says of its tree order map data: “This dataset is under review and subject to change. Always refer to the Original Tree Preservation Order and associated plan for confirmation.” The council’s tree preservation orders page ↗
None of Brook Way’s line is in Flood Zone 2 or 3 on the Environment Agency’s flood map for planning. In the Agency’s words: “This means a site in flood zone 1 could still flood now or in the future.”
No Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Area of Conservation, Local Nature Reserve, ancient woodland or country park is within about 100 m of Brook Way’s line, and it is outside the High Weald National Landscape. Protected nature in Hastings
Problems reported, roadworks, how long reports take to close, and who looks after the road.
Who looks after this street
Not adopted. East Sussex County Council’s map names Brook Way but shows none of it as adopted, so the county doesn’t maintain it. It may be a private road or a private street (an unadopted highway): “Private streets are also known as unadopted public highways and are different to private roads. Private streets are also maintained by the owners rather than the County Council but are open to the public.” (the council’s page)
What homes sold for, their energy ratings, broadband, and business rates.
Broadband here
The record holds one postcode for this street: some premises there could get gigabit-capable broadband, not all, and not every premises could get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s or more).
The postcodes are those of addresses on this street that the record holds (from planning applications and other notices), so a street's other postcodes may be missing. Gigabit-capable means full fibre or cable; Ofcom reports full fibre only for whole council areas. From Ofcom's Connected Nations 2025 data: what the networks reported they could supply in July 2025 (published 19 November 2025, read 15 October 2026). Contains Ofcom data, Open Government Licence v3.0. The town's figures, and your own postcode.
Nearby
Buses and trains, health, schools, care, parks, food hygiene, air, crime and the sea.
From the operators' registered timetables (the Bus Open Data Service) for the week of 3 November 2026, and DfT's register of stops (NaPTAN). What is timetabled, not what ran; times are departures.
Crime and policing in Baird ward
Brook Way's middle is in Baird ward. These are the ward's figures, not this street's: we don't publish crime street by street.
In August 2026, the police recorded 54 crimes and 17 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Baird ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 664 crimes and 149 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.
Its police team is Baird. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community Meeting - Baird Ward, Saturday 7 November 2026, 11am, The Firs, Elphinstone Road.
The team's priorities, as the police word them: Drug Related Crime; Anti-social Behaviour.
The team's contact details on data.police.uk: email hastings@sussex.pnn.police.uk. Sussex Police's telephone number on data.police.uk is 101, the police's number for anything that isn't an emergency; Sussex Police's website. In an emergency, call 999.
From data.police.uk (Open Government Licence): crimes reported to and recorded by the police, each counted in the ward that holds its anonymised map point. About these figures.
Charging an electric car
The nearest public charger mapped on OpenStreetMap is Osprey near Hurst Way, about 1,010 m from the middle of this street (Osprey · 3 charging points).
The nearest of each on NHS England's register, measured from the middle of this street in a straight line. Nearest doesn't mean a practice takes patients from this street or is taking new ones; each name links to its NHS website page, with its opening hours.
The practice hasn't told the NHS whether it accepts new NHS patients for routine care. Call to check. Information from the NHS website, read 1 November 2026.
Primary · ages 3 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: graded inspection 21 February 2024: overall effectiveness Good
890 m
Within a kilometre of the middle of this street, as the crow flies. Distance isn't how places are given: the county's admissions rules decide that. Every school in Hastings.
The storm overflow nearest this street, from Southern Water's feed as Swim Hastings records it. Estimates based on public discharge and environmental data — not water quality testing. Swim at your own judgment.
Doleham Ditch CSO (Brede catchment, to Rye)
0.3 km from the street · 0 releases in the last 30 days · 0 in 12 months (0.0 h) · last began Mon 21 Jul 2025
Council papers and other documents that name Brook Way, newest first.
Named in council papers
These papers mention the street by name, but we haven't
checked that each one is about this street. County papers cover all of East
Sussex, and some street names are used in other towns too. The quote under
each paper shows where the name appears.
Local Plan site ES5: Adjacent unit C, 1-8 Brook Way
ES5: Adjacent unit C, 1-8 Brook Way 1. Access. 2. Active travel. Policy ES5 amended. ES6: UK Power Networks, Hastings Main, The Ridge/ Ivyhouse Lane 1.