Ditchling Drive

Ditchling Drive at a glance

The street beside its ward and the town. Each figure is from the section further down that says where it comes from.

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.

What the council lists here

Entries on the borough council's land and assets list whose address names it, in the list's own words. Entries held for the Foreshore Trust say so. The whole list and how it is read.

• Ditchling Drive 9

  9 Ditchling Drive, TN35 5EX · Residential · Land & Buildings

  Freehold; the list's tenure details: Leasehold (out) (let on a lease) · asset DD09-01

• Ditchling Drive 51

  51 Ditchling Drive, TN35 5EX · Residential · Land & Buildings

  Freehold; the list's tenure details: Leasehold (out) (let on a lease) · asset DD51-01

• Ditchling Drive, Land to the North East

  Ditchling Drive, TN35 5EX · Open Space · Land Only

  Freehold; the list's tenure details: Other · asset DDLI-01

On the street now

Problems reported, roadworks, how long reports take to close, and who looks after the road.

Who looks after this street

Adopted highway: yes. Ditchling Drive is on East Sussex County Council’s map of adopted roads, so the county looks after it: report a problem to East Sussex Highways.

From East Sussex County Council’s map of adopted roads, read 12 October 2026. © East Sussex County Council 2026. Only the street’s name and whether it is adopted are used: the county’s map is the record, and its Highway Land Information Team confirms a road’s status. Who looks after what

Roadworks here

In the last 13 months

• Southern Water

  Utility asset works · minor works (three days or less) · in the carriageway · short stops of traffic · permit LQ001SWAT784827-01

  5 to 6 October 2026permit granted
• BT

  Utility repair and maintenance works · urgent works · in the footpath · clear of the road · permit BC004WH2R9F3S-01

  21 to 26 May 2026finished 26 May

From the permits utilities and East Sussex County Council apply for in DfT Street Manager, read from its open archive (September 2025 to September 2026; newest entry 30 September 2026). The archive is published monthly, so works booked since then, and emergencies, aren't here yet, and planned dates can change. Contains public sector information from the Department for Transport's Street Manager, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Homes and premises

What homes sold for, their energy ratings, broadband, and business rates.

Homes sold on this street

HM Land Registry records 5 standard sales of homes on Ditchling Drive since 2017, and 51 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.

Every sale, with the address, is in the Land Registry's own search: Ditchling Drive. House prices in Hastings, by year, kind of home and ward.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Standard sales only: the Land Registry's category A, "single residential property sold for value". Repossessions, buy-to-let purchases with a mortgage and sales to companies (its category B) aren't included. A sale reaches the register weeks or months after it completes, so the last few months to August 2026 are incomplete.

Energy ratings on this street

29 homes on Ditchling Drive have a current energy performance certificate, registered 2017 to 2026. Each home counts once, by its newest certificate; homes without one aren't counted.

Find an energy certificate, the official register, has each home's certificate. What the bands mean.

Energy performance certificate data from the register kept for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Open Government Licence v3.0. Address data © Royal Mail and Ordnance Survey: used only to count each home on its street and in its ward, and not published here. Read from the register on 13 October 2026, with certificates to 12 October 2026.

Nearby

Buses and trains, health, schools, care, parks, food hygiene, air, crime and the sea.

Crime and policing in Ore ward

Ditchling Drive's middle is in Ore 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 40 crimes and 7 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Ore ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 495 crimes and 114 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.

Its police team is Ore. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community Meeting - Ore, Saturday 12 December 2026, 11am, Ore Community Centre.

The team's priorities, as the police word them: Speeding & Motorbikes.

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.

GP, pharmacy and dentist

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 Hill Surgery

  Ore Clinic, 407 Old London Road, Hastings, TN35 5BH · 01424 720878

  530 m
• Laycock Chemist

  494-498 Old London Road, Hastings, TN35 5BL · 01424 436778

  560 m
• Priory Road Dental Surgery

  369-371 Priory Road, Hastings, TN34 3NW

  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 30 October 2026.

  1.4 km

Every GP practice, pharmacy and dentist in Hastings.

Schools nearby

• Ore Village Primary Academy

  Primary · ages 3 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: graded inspection 21 February 2024: overall effectiveness Good

  310 m
• Mulberry Academy Hastings

  Secondary · ages 11 to 16 · Ofsted's latest: report card 13 January 2026

  410 m
• Sandown Primary School and Nursery

  Primary · ages 4 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: ungraded inspection 29 January 2025: “Standards maintained”

  660 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.

Care homes nearby

• Barrington House

  Care homes · rated Good (10 June 2021)

  400 m
• 76 Canute Road

  Care homes · rated Good (18 January 2019)

  680 m

Within 800 m of the middle of this street. Ratings as CQC states them. This page uses Care Quality Commission information. Every care home, surgery and dentist in Hastings.

Parks and play areas

• Hastings Country Park Nature Reserve, the nearest public park or garden: about 290 m to its nearest mapped entrance.
• Play space near Brightling Avenue, the nearest play area: about 100 m.

Measured in a straight line from the middle of this street. Plans to refurbish or replace play areas are in council papers and planning applications, not in these maps: search the papers for “play area” or “playground”, and see what developers pay towards them on Developer contributions. Green spaces: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace (April 2026 edition, read 12 October 2026). Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; OS OpenData, Open Government Licence v3.0. Playgrounds also from OpenStreetMap, read 12 October 2026: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

On the record

Council papers and other documents that name Ditchling Drive, newest first.

On the record

Nothing on our record names Ditchling Drive yet: no council paper or report, and no planning application. When something does, it will appear on this page and in its feed.