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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 Meadowsweet Close on the full map. Green dots are trees under a tree preservation order (indicative only).
Meadowsweet 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 December 2025: 1 planning decision. 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.
Planning on this street
Every planning application and decision we hold for Meadowsweet Close, 1 in all (1 granted and 0 refused), 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.
This asks the council to confirm that planning permission isn't needed. Application for a Certificate of Proposed Lawful development for a proposed single storey rear e…
HS/PR/26/00328, decided in the week of Mon 20 Jul 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 Meadowsweet 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 ↗
The council’s map data has no tree preservation order within about 40 m of Meadowsweet Close’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 ↗
None of Meadowsweet 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.”
Combe Haven SSSI ↗ (Site of Special Scientific Interest): Meadowsweet Close’s line passes within about 100 m of it.
Ancient woodland: Meadowsweet Close’s line passes within about 100 m of 1 parcel on Natural England’s inventory.
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. Meadowsweet 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.
What homes sold for, their energy ratings, broadband, and business rates.
Homes sold on this street
HM Land Registry records 6 standard sales of homes on Meadowsweet Close since 2017, and 33 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.
6 homes on Meadowsweet Close have a current energy performance certificate, registered 2019 to 2024. 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.
74 to Blacklands Ark William Parker Academy; 94A to Conquest Hospital; 322B to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road; 322E to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road; 323 to Conquest Hospital, Hastings station; 323B to Conquest Hospital
74 to Harley Shute Field Way; 322B to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy; 322E to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy; 323 to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy, Harley Shute Field Way; 359 to Bexhill Penland Road
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 West St Leonards ward
Meadowsweet Close's middle is in West St Leonards 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 41 crimes and 9 incidents of anti-social behaviour in West St Leonards ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 494 crimes and 136 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.
Its police team is West St Leonards. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community meeting, Monday 4 January 2027, 11am, The Combe Valley Cafe & Discovery Centre, Freshfields, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.
The team's priorities, as the police word them: ASB Driving.
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.
The practice told the NHS it accepts new NHS patients for routine care if they are: adults entitled to free routine dental care; children aged 17 or under. The practice last confirmed this on 12 October 2026. Information from the NHS website, read 1 November 2026.
Secondary · ages 11 to 16 · Ofsted's latest: graded inspection 28 January 2025: overall effectiveness not judged
990 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.