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The light is the one thing on the record here in the last year. Tap it for its details. What’s near Mare Bay Close on the full map. Green dots are trees under a tree preservation order (indicative only).
Mare Bay 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.
Since November 2025: 1 planning application. Each dot is one of them, in the month it happened. Our planning records start in April 2026 and our council papers in September 2025, and street problems show only while they are open, so earlier months may look quieter than they really were.
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.
Closing dates on Mare Bay Close
What you can still act on here, closing soonest first. Each says how to act and where its closing date comes from.
Every planning application and decision we hold for Mare Bay Close, 1 in all (0 granted, 0 refused and 1 not yet decided), newest first. Our record starts on 21 April 2026, from the council’s weekly lists; earlier applications here are on the council’s own planning search. An application made before then appears only if it was decided since, and then without its earlier dates.
2026: 1 application (0 granted, 0 refused and 1 not yet decided)
This asks for the council's consent to work on protected trees. Turkey oak reduction by 2 linear metres (25%), Ash and English oak - small cut back to fence line
HS/TP/26/00615, validated Tue 27 Oct 2026. No comments from the public on the council’s file. The council’s file ↗
Conservation, listed buildings and protected trees
None of the town’s 18 conservation areas reaches Mare Bay Close 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 ↗
Orders with a protected tree, group or woodland within about 40 m of the street’s line, from the council’s map data.
TPO 37: made 15 July 1970, confirmed 14 November 1973; 15 trees, 9 groups of trees, 30 areas of trees, 31 woodlands 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 ↗
None of Mare Bay Close’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.”
Marline Valley Woods SSSI ↗ (Site of Special Scientific Interest): Mare Bay Close’s line passes within about 70 m of it.
Ancient woodland: Mare Bay Close’s line passes within about 100 m of 2 parcels on Natural England’s inventory (Marline/Hoads Woods).
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
Problems reported, roadworks, how long reports take to close, and who looks after the road.
Who looks after this street
Adopted highway: yes. Mare Bay 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.
Utility asset works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · partly in the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit UY009TW-200003866452-01
14 to 16 May 2026finished 14 May
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 11 standard sales of homes on Mare Bay Close since 2017, and 78 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.
8 homes on Mare Bay Close have a current energy performance certificate, registered 2017 to 2025. Each home counts once, by its newest certificate; homes without one aren't counted.
The record holds one postcode for this street: every premises there could get gigabit-capable broadband, and every premises could get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s or more).
The postcodes are those of addresses on this street that the record holds (from planning applications and other notices), so a street's other postcodes may be missing. Gigabit-capable means full fibre or cable; Ofcom reports full fibre only for whole council areas. From Ofcom's Connected Nations 2025 data: what the networks reported they could supply in July 2025 (published 19 November 2025, read 15 October 2026). Contains Ofcom data, Open Government Licence v3.0. The town's figures, and your own postcode.
Nearby
Buses and trains, health, schools, care, parks, food hygiene, air, crime and the sea.
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.
Crime and policing in Ashdown ward
Mare Bay 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 1,230 m from the middle of this street (no details mapped).
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.
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.