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Douchs Passage
What’s near Douchs Passage on the full map. The shaded area inside the dashed line is a conservation area and green dots are trees under a tree preservation order (indicative only).

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.

Planning on this street

We have no planning applications or decisions for this street. That doesn’t mean nothing has happened here, only that the council’s weekly planning lists haven’t named it since our record starts on 21 April 2026.

Conservation, listed buildings and protected trees

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 ↗

Listed buildings (1)

From Historic England’s list: 1 whose map point is beside its line. The list entry says what is protected, which can include attached walls and railings.

Tree preservation orders near Douchs Passage

Orders with a protected tree, group or woodland within about 40 m of the street’s line, from the council’s map data.

  • TPO 78: made 21 January 1983, confirmed 2 December 1983; 39 trees, 20 groups of trees, 1 area of trees, 1 woodland in the order. The order (PDF) ↗

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 ↗

Conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders: Hastings Borough Council, Open Government Licence v3.0. Street lines © OpenStreetMap contributors. Listed buildings: © Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Flood zones, the coast and protected nature

Flood zones

None of Douchs Passage’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.”

A street’s line is not an address. For a particular address, use the Environment Agency’s Check your long term flood risk ↗; for a planning site, its Flood map for planning ↗. Flood warnings in force now are on Live now.

Protected nature

  • Hastings Country Park LNR ↗ (Local Nature Reserve): Douchs Passage’s line passes within about 100 m of it.
  • High Weald National Landscape ↗ (National Landscape (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty)): Douchs Passage’s line passes within about 100 m of it.
  • Hastings Country Park (Country park): Douchs Passage’s line passes within about 100 m of it.

Natural England’s designations within about 100 m of the street’s mapped line. Each official page says what is protected there. Protected nature in Hastings

Flood zones: © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0. Fetched 2026-10-12.

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.

Protected sites: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Open Government Licence v3.0. Fetched 2026-10-12.

Street lines © OpenStreetMap contributors.

On the street now

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 Douchs Passage 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)

The county’s Highway Land Information Team answers questions about road adoption (highwaysearches@eastsussex.gov.uk, 01273 482 316).

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

Nearby

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

Buses near Douchs Passage

  • Market Cross Harold Road (opp)

    73 to Old Town The Stade; 321 to Conquest Hospital, Hastings station

    Weekdays: 30 buses, 05:53–20:08 · Saturday: 29 buses, 05:53–20:08 · Sunday: 14 buses, 06:58–20:08

    126 m away
  • Market Cross Harold Road (adj)

    73 to Blacklands Ark William Parker Academy; 321 to Ore Crowborough Road

    Weekdays: 30 buses, 06:58–22:22 · Saturday: 29 buses, 06:58–22:22 · Sunday: 14 buses, 07:38–20:33

    137 m away
  • Market Cross (adj)

    70 to Hastings station; 100 to Conquest Hospital, Silverhill Chatham Road; 101 to Hastings station, Silverhill Chatham Road

    Weekdays: 30 buses, 07:32–23:24 · Saturday: 28 buses, 07:59–23:24 · Sunday: 11 buses, 10:10–20:03

    143 m away
  • Market Cross (opp)

    70 to Rye station; 100 to Rye station; 101 to Rye station

    Weekdays: 31 buses, 05:54–22:22 · Saturday: 29 buses, 06:54–22:22 · Sunday: 11 buses, 08:21–18:21

    158 m away

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.

The nearest station is Ore, about 900 m away: next trains, step-free access and facilities. Step-free access: B3, step-free access only to some platforms.

Crime and policing in Old Hastings ward

Douchs Passage's middle is in Old Hastings 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 45 crimes and 22 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Old Hastings ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 451 crimes and 179 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.

Its police team is Old Hastings. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community meeting- Old Town Hastings, Sunday 17 January 2027, 3pm, Outside The Stables Theatre, Old London Road, Hastings.

The team's priorities, as the police word them: Drug Dealing; ASB / Street Drinking.

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 A charging point near Pelham Place, about 810 m from the middle of this street (no details mapped).

Volunteers map chargers, so there may be a nearer one. Every mapped site, and how many the DfT counts. © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

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.

Every GP practice, pharmacy and dentist in Hastings.

Schools nearby

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

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

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.

Sewage releases nearby

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.

Every outfall near the beaches · today's beach-by-beach picture on Swim Hastings

On the record

Council papers and other documents that name Douchs Passage, newest first.

On the record

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

Street names and locations from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.