Downey Close

Downey Close 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.

Planning appeals on this street

The planning committee's appeal reports list each appeal against a planning decision; the Planning Inspectorate decides them, and its own data lists those it has decided, each linking to its decision letter. Each is shown with its latest outcome.

• Land to the rear of 12 Downey Close ↗

  Dismissed · Planning Appeal, written representations · decided 21 Sep 2021

  Appeal against: refused planning permission

  Council reference HS/FA/20/00736

  Case 3271199

Every appeal on the record

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.

• Downey Close 23

  23 Downey Close, TN37 7LJ · Residential · Land & Buildings

  Freehold; the list's tenure details: Licence (out) (let on a licence) · asset DC23-01

• Downey Close 27

  27 Downey Close, TN37 7LJ · Residential · Land & Buildings

  Freehold; the list's tenure details: Licence (out) (let on a licence) · asset DC27-01

• Downey Close 29

  29 Downey Close, TN37 7LJ · Residential · Land & Buildings

  Freehold; the list's tenure details: Licence (out) (let on a licence) · asset DC29-01

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. Downey Close 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

Homes and premises

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

Homes sold on this street

HM Land Registry records 18 standard sales of homes on Downey Close since 2017, and 36 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: Downey Close. 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

19 homes on Downey Close 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 Ashdown ward

Downey Close's middle is in Ashdown 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 60 crimes and 13 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Ashdown ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 572 crimes and 85 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.

Its police team is Ashdown. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community Meeting - Ashdown, Wednesday 2 December 2026, 5pm, Sainsbury's, John Macadam Way, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex.

The team's priorities, as the police word them: Anti-social Behaviour & Public Order; Business Crime / Shoplifting.

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 GeniePoint near John Macadam Way, about 370 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.

• High Glades Medical Centre

  9a Upper Church Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, TN37 7AT · 01424 754678

  700 m
• Laycock Chemists

  30 Little Ridge Avenue, St. Leonards-on-Sea, TN37 7LS · 01424 755395

  260 m
• Harrow Lane Dental Practice

  204 Harrow Lane, St. Leonards-on-Sea, TN37 7JZ

  The practice told the NHS it does not accept new NHS patients for routine care. It accepts new NHS patients only for specialist care, by referral from another dentist. Information from the NHS website, read 30 October 2026.

  260 m

Every GP practice, pharmacy and dentist in Hastings.

Schools nearby

• Ark Little Ridge Primary Academy

  Primary · ages 4 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: graded inspection 10 October 2023: overall effectiveness Outstanding

  180 m
• Hollington Primary School

  Primary · ages 2 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: graded inspection 19 July 2022: overall effectiveness Inadequate

  940 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.

Parks and play areas

• Park or garden near Hertford Close, the nearest public park or garden: about 1.1 km to its nearest mapped entrance.
• Play space near Fleet Wood Close, the nearest play area: about 130 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 Downey Close, newest first.

On the record

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