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Earl Street
What’s near Earl Street 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).

Earl Street 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.

Median price of a home sold, 2023

£242k

  • Earl Street£242k
  • Castle£192k
  • Hastings£280k

From 4 sales on the street that year, so one sale moves it.

Homes rated A to C for energy

60%

  • Earl Street60%
  • Castle49%
  • Hastings52%

Of the 67 homes here with a current certificate.

The figures as a table
HereBeside itBeside it
Median price of a home sold, 2023£242kCastle: £192kHastings: £280k
Homes rated A to C for energy60%Castle: 49%Hastings: 52%

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

None of the town’s 18 conservation areas reaches Earl Street 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 ↗

Listed buildings

Historic England’s list has no entry that names Earl Street or stands beside its line. Every listed building in Hastings

Tree preservation orders

The council’s map data has no tree preservation order within about 40 m of Earl Street’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 ↗

Conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders: Hastings Borough Council, Open Government Licence v3.0. Street lines © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Flood zones, the coast and protected nature

Flood zones

None of Earl Street’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

No Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Area of Conservation, Local Nature Reserve, ancient woodland or country park is within about 100 m of Earl Street’s line, and it is outside the High Weald National Landscape. 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

Adopted highway: yes. Earl Street 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

Who has dug up this street or plans to, and why, from their permits.

Roadworks across town

In the last 13 months

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.

How long street reports here took to close

Of the 1 problem reported near Earl Street that our record holds, 1 is closed on FixMyStreet and 0 are still open. The median time from report to close was 11 days: half the closed reports took longer, half less. Reports still open aren’t in that figure.

“Closed” is FixMyStreet’s status, set by the council or the person who reported it. It is not proof that anything was fixed. Our record of reports starts on 3 August 2026. Older open reports have been checked again for closure since 11 October 2026; before then a report that closed later could still show as open here.

Homes and premises

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

Homes sold on this street

HM Land Registry records 23 standard sales of homes on Earl Street since 2017, and 105 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.

MonthHomePrice
Mar 2025Flat, leasehold£140,000
Jan 2025Flat, freehold£48,000
Jan 2024Flat, leasehold£150,000
Nov 2023Terraced, freehold£300,000
Nov 2023Terraced, freehold£250,000
Oct 2023Flat, leasehold£117,500
Sep 2023Flat, leasehold£233,000
Jan 2022Flat, leasehold£232,500
Dec 2021Terraced, freehold£415,000
Nov 2021Terraced, freehold£340,500
Aug 2021Flat, leasehold£135,000
Aug 2020Flat, leasehold£140,000
All 23 sales since 2017
MonthHomePrice
Jul 2020Flat, leasehold£160,000
Jun 2020Terraced, freehold£300,000
May 2020Flat, leasehold£95,000
Jul 2019Flat, leasehold£165,000
Feb 2019Flat, leasehold£58,500
Jul 2018Flat, leasehold£250,000
Dec 2017Flat, leasehold£107,500
Dec 2017Flat, leasehold£107,500
Aug 2017Flat, leasehold£82,000
Jun 2017Terraced, freehold£195,000
Apr 2017Terraced, freehold£240,000
Sales and median price by year, 1995 to 2025
YearSalesMedian price
20252£94,000
20241£150,000
20234£241,500
20221£232,500
20213£340,500
20204£150,000
20192£111,750
20181£250,000
20175£107,500
20166£173,500
20152£84,500
20141£168,500
20131£153,000
20122£141,500
20113£70,000
20102£132,500
20089£128,000
20076£57,500
20064£204,750
20053£97,500
20043£75,000
20036£70,500
20023£54,950
20012£47,250
20006£34,700
19995£34,000
19983£42,000
19975£33,000
19962£34,250
19958£22,900

Every sale, with the address, is in the Land Registry's own search: Earl Street. 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

67 homes on Earl Street have a current energy performance certificate, registered 2016 to 2026. Each home counts once, by its newest certificate; homes without one aren't counted.

BandHomesShare
A00%
B1015%
C3045%
D1624%
E1116%
F00%
G00%
All67

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.

Buses near Earl Street

  • Stanley Road (opp)

    384 to Baldslow Ashdown House

    Weekdays: 1 bus, at 16:22 · Saturday: none · Sunday: none

    173 m away
  • Morrisons (opp)

    7 to Hastings Town Centre Priory Meadow; 300A to Hastings station; 300C to Hastings station; 322 to Hollington Tesco, Hastings station; 322B to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy; 322E to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy

    Weekdays: 115 buses, 06:05–22:46 · Saturday: 109 buses, 06:33–22:48 · Sunday: 62 buses, 09:14–21:46

    220 m away
  • Priory Meadow (Stop H)

    322 to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road; 322B to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road; 322E to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road

    Weekdays: 40 buses, 07:08–22:22 · Saturday: 38 buses, 07:45–22:22 · Sunday: 25 buses, 09:21–22:18

    269 m away
  • Morrisons (adj)

    7 to Hastings Town Centre Priory Meadow; 300A to Hastings station, Conquest Hospital; 300C to Hastings station; 322 to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road; 322B to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road; 322E to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road

    Weekdays: 113 buses, 06:27–23:05 · Saturday: 111 buses, 06:27–23:05 · Sunday: 63 buses, 09:11–22:19

    270 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 Hastings, about 350 m away: next trains, step-free access and facilities. Step-free access: A, Compliant step-free access to all platform(s).

Crime and policing in Castle ward

Earl Street's middle is in Castle 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 301 crimes and 114 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Castle ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 2,459 crimes and 689 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.

Its police team is Castle (Hastings). The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community Meeting - Castle Ward, Saturday 14 November 2026, 10am, Hastings Police Pod, Wellington Place, Hastings.

The team's priorities, as the police word them: Shoplifting; Anti-social behaviour; Street Community / Drinking in public.

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 Priory Street, about 380 m from the middle of this street (8 bays 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 Earl Street, 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.

Minutes Public Pack, 24/09/2025 Full Council

…housing This is evidenced by the extensive caseload of local councillors • Both Housing Associations have responsibility for estates requiring regeneration i.e. Clifton Court and Earl Street (Orbit); The Four Courts (Southern Housing) • Southern Housing have refused to recognise the tenants association which has been set up by the tenants themselves – Hastings Area…

Committee report, agenda item 2, mentions it, Wed 26 Nov 2025, Full Council. Source document ↗ not checked

Full Council agenda

…housing This is evidenced by the extensive caseload of local councillors Both Housing Associations have responsibility for estates requiring regeneration i.e. Clifton Court and Earl Street (Orbit); The Four Courts (Southern Housing) Southern Housing have refused to recognise the tenants association which has been set up by the tenants themselves – Hastings Area…

Committee agenda, mentions it, Wed 24 Sep 2025, Full Council. Source document ↗ not checked

Full Council minutes

…housing This is evidenced by the extensive caseload of local councillors Both Housing Associations have responsibility for estates requiring regeneration i.e. Clifton Court and Earl Street (Orbit); The Four Courts (Southern Housing) Southern Housing have refused to recognise the tenants association which has been set up by the tenants themselves – Hastings Area…

Committee minutes, mentions it, Wed 24 Sep 2025, Full Council. Source document ↗ not checked

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