Kensington Close

Kensington 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.

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.

• Kensington Close, Land in

  Kensington Close, TN38 9TL · Land · Land Only

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

• Kensington Close, Play Area

  Kensington Close, TN38 9TL · Playground · Land Only

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

Adopted highway: yes. Kensington 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

Roadworks here

In the last 13 months

• BT

  New service connection · minor works (three days or less) · in the carriageway · partly in the road · permit BC004WH6G680B-01

  16 to 18 September 2026finished 16 September
• 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 LQ002SWAT14574797-01

  7 to 11 May 2026finished 11 May
• BT give and take

  Utility asset works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway and carriageway · permit BC411005WGQG3T7K-01

  26 to 30 March 2026finished 27 March
• Lightning Fibre

  Remedial works · standard works (four to ten days) · in the footway · partly in the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit B8003HGS07-29-SPEC-02-03

  2 to 9 February 2026finished 3 February
• BT

  Permanent reinstatement · minor works (three days or less) · in the carriageway · partly in the road · permit BC411001WGKRN96J-02

  14 to 18 November 2025finished 15 November 2025
• BT

  Utility asset works · minor works (three days or less) · in the carriageway · partly in the road · permit BC411001WGKRN96J-01

  13 to 16 October 2025finished 14 October 2025

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 23 standard sales of homes on Kensington Close since 2017, and 86 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: Kensington 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

15 homes on Kensington 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 Hollington ward

Kensington Close's middle is in Hollington 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 43 crimes and 26 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Hollington ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 551 crimes and 160 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.

Its police team is Hollington. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community Meeting - For Hollington Residents, Monday 9 November 2026, 12pm, Hollington Bowl, Wishing Tree Road North.

The team's priorities, as the police word them: Anti-Social Behaviour; Anti-social Driving / Theft from or of vehicles.

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.

• South Saxon House Surgery

  4 Whatlington Way, St. Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 9TE · 01424 717386

  420 m
• Tesco Instore Pharmacy

  Church Wood Drive, St. Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 9RB · 01424 786449

  760 m
• Arthur Blackman Clinic

  Battle Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, TN37 7AN

  1.6 km

Every GP practice, pharmacy and dentist in Hastings.

Schools nearby

• Robsack Wood Primary School

  Primary · ages 0 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: graded inspection 1 March 2022: overall effectiveness Good

  320 m
• Churchwood Primary School

  Primary · ages 2 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: graded inspection 11 October 2022: overall effectiveness Good

  700 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 Warwick Place, the nearest play area: about 70 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 Kensington Close, newest first.

On the record

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