Helmsman Rise

Helmsman Rise 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.

• Hoads Wood, Helmsman Rise, Land in

  Helmsman Rise, TN38 8BS · Land · Land Only

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

• Hoads Wood, Helmsman Rise Play Area

  Helmsman Rise, TN38 8BS · Playground · Land Only

  Freehold; the list's tenure details: Other · asset HWHR-02

On the street now

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

Who looks after this street

Partly adopted. East Sussex County Council’s map shows part of Helmsman Rise as adopted and part not. The county looks after the adopted part (report a problem to East Sussex Highways); the rest may be a private road or a private street. The county’s map shows which part is which.

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

Roadworks here

In the last 13 months

• Southern Water

  Utility repair and maintenance works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · clear of the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit LQ002SWAT14637491-01

  24 to 28 July 2026finished 28 July

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 40 standard sales of homes on Helmsman Rise since 2017, and 109 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: Helmsman Rise. 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

27 homes on Helmsman Rise 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

Helmsman Rise'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 830 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

  1.5 km
• Laycock Chemists

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

  1.4 km
• Toad Hall Dental Surgery

  1 Upper Glen Road, St Leonards on Sea, TN37 7AX

  The practice told the NHS it accepts new NHS patients for routine care if they are: adults aged 18 or over; adults entitled to free routine dental care; children aged 17 or under. The practice last confirmed this on 23 September 2026. Information from the NHS website, read 30 October 2026.

  1.2 km

Every GP practice, pharmacy and dentist in Hastings.

Care homes nearby

• EVHM LLP - 1 Johnson Close

  Care homes · rated Good (18 July 2019)

  350 m
• EVHM LLP - 5 High Beech Close

  Care homes · rated Good (23 May 2025)

  470 m
• EVHM LLP - 6 High Beech Close

  Care homes · rated Good (28 May 2026)

  470 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

• Park or garden near Hertford Close, the nearest public park or garden: about 1.4 km to its nearest mapped entrance.
• Helmsmans Rise Childrens Playground, the nearest play area: about 50 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 Helmsman Rise, 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.