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Nelson Road
What’s near Nelson Road 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).

Nelson Road 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, 2025

£165k

  • Nelson Road£165k
  • Castle£202k
  • Hastings£280k

From 3 sales on the street that year, so one sale moves it.

Homes rated A to C for energy

53%

  • Nelson Road53%
  • Castle49%
  • Hastings52%

Of the 79 homes here with a current certificate.

The figures as a table
HereBeside itBeside it
Median price of a home sold, 2025£165kCastle: £202kHastings: £280k
Homes rated A to C for energy53%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.

Planning appeals on this street

The planning committee's appeal reports list each appeal against a planning decision; the Planning Inspectorate decides them, and its own data lists those it has decided, each linking to its decision letter. Each is shown with its latest outcome.

Every appeal on the record

Conservation, listed buildings and protected trees

None of the town’s 18 conservation areas reaches Nelson Road 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 Nelson Road or stands beside its line. Every listed building in Hastings

Tree preservation orders near Nelson Road

Orders with a protected tree, group or woodland within about 40 m of the street’s line, from the council’s map data.

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

Part of Nelson Road is in Flood Zone 2 (rivers). That is the Environment Agency’s flood map for planning, which shows land that could flood from rivers or the sea, ignoring the benefits of any existing flood defences.

Locations in flood zone 2 have a medium probability of flooding.

This means, in any year, land has:

  • between a 1% and 0.1% (between 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000) chance of flooding from rivers
  • between a 0.5% and 0.1% (between 1 in 200 and 1 in 1,000) chance of flooding from the sea.

Flood zone 2 developments need a flood risk assessment as part of their planning application.

The Environment Agency’s words, from Flood zones and what they mean ↗.

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 Nelson Road’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.

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.

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. Nelson Road 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.

Homes and premises

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

Homes sold on this street

HM Land Registry records 55 standard sales of homes on Nelson Road since 2017, and 145 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.

MonthHomePrice
Jan 2026Flat, leasehold£90,000
Nov 2025Flat, leasehold£120,000
Jul 2025Flat, leasehold£210,000
Mar 2025Flat, leasehold£165,000
Dec 2024Flat, leasehold£150,000
Nov 2023Flat, leasehold£132,000
Jan 2023Terraced, freehold£270,000
Jan 2023Terraced, leasehold£185,000
Sep 2022Terraced, freehold£535,000
Jul 2022Flat, leasehold£115,000
May 2022Flat, leasehold£175,000
Mar 2022Flat, leasehold£117,000
All 55 sales since 2017
MonthHomePrice
Mar 2022Flat, leasehold£80,000
Feb 2022Flat, leasehold£133,500
Feb 2022Flat, leasehold£125,000
Sep 2021Flat, leasehold£165,000
Sep 2021Flat, leasehold£150,500
Aug 2021Terraced, freehold£485,000
Aug 2021Flat, leasehold£194,000
Jun 2021Flat, leasehold£245,000
Apr 2021Flat, leasehold£152,500
Feb 2021Flat, leasehold£142,500
Dec 2020Detached, freehold£314,200
Jul 2019Flat, leasehold£86,000
Mar 2019Terraced, freehold£323,750
Mar 2019Flat, leasehold£168,000
Feb 2019Flat, leasehold£126,000
Nov 2018Terraced, freehold£370,000
Nov 2018Flat, leasehold£108,000
Oct 2018Flat, leasehold£125,000
Aug 2018Flat, leasehold£177,000
Aug 2018Flat, leasehold£135,000
Jun 2018Terraced, leasehold£137,000
May 2018Detached, freehold£225,000
Apr 2018Flat, leasehold£140,000
Apr 2018Flat, leasehold£105,000
Mar 2018Flat, leasehold£104,000
Oct 2017Flat, leasehold£105,000
Sep 2017Flat, leasehold£137,500
Sep 2017Flat, leasehold£120,000
Aug 2017Terraced, freehold£305,000
Aug 2017Flat, leasehold£153,000
Aug 2017Flat, leasehold£112,000
Aug 2017Flat, leasehold£111,000
Aug 2017Flat, leasehold£90,000
Jul 2017Flat, leasehold£115,000
Jun 2017Flat, leasehold£125,000
Jun 2017Flat, leasehold£115,000
Apr 2017Semi, freehold£197,000
Apr 2017Flat, leasehold£130,000
Apr 2017Flat, leasehold£125,000
Apr 2017Flat, leasehold£112,000
Feb 2017Flat, leasehold£150,000
Feb 2017Flat, leasehold£125,000
Jan 2017Flat, leasehold£130,000
Sales and median price by year, 1995 to 2026
YearSalesMedian price
2026 (to August)1£90,000
20253£165,000
20241£150,000
20233£185,000
20227£125,000
20217£165,000
20201£314,200
20194£147,000
201810£136,000
201718£125,000
20164£212,500
20157£125,000
20141£112,000
20131£280,000
20124£77,000
20103£130,000
20085£90,000
20075£99,950
20063£240,000
20052£134,250
20047£90,000
20036£76,500
20028£51,475
20017£30,000
20005£31,000
19993£23,500
19989£28,000
19973£39,000
19965£28,000
19952£33,500

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

79 homes on Nelson Road 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%
B11%
C4152%
D2734%
E911%
F11%
G00%
All79

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 Nelson Road

  • Milward Road North (o/s 129)

    347 to Pett Pett Road, West Hill Mount Pleasant Court

    Weekdays: 6 buses, 09:48–17:43 · Saturday: 6 buses, 09:49–17:43 · Sunday: none

    66 m away
  • Milward Road North (o/s 138)

    347 to Hastings Town Centre Priory Meadow, Hastings station

    Weekdays: 4 buses, 08:51–14:21 · Saturday: 5 buses, 08:46–15:23 · Sunday: none

    83 m away
  • Stonefield Road (adj)

    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, 06:04–22:45 · Saturday: 109 buses, 06:31–22:46 · Sunday: 62 buses, 09:13–21:44

    104 m away
  • Whistlers Steps (S-bound)

    347 to Hastings Town Centre Priory Meadow, Hastings station

    Weekdays: 4 buses, 08:52–14:22 · Saturday: 5 buses, 08:47–15:24 · Sunday: none

    168 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 Ore, about 700 m away: next trains, step-free access and facilities. Step-free access: B3, step-free access only to some platforms.

Crime and policing in Castle ward

Nelson Road'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.

Air quality nearby

The council's nitrogen dioxide tube at Manor Road, about 310 m from the middle of this street: an annual mean of 13.6 µg/m³ in 2025.

Every year the report gives: 2021: 12.5, 2022: 10.9, 2023: 12.6, 2024: 12.8, 2025: 13.6 (µg/m³).

Each figure is for the kerbside spot where the tube or monitor sits, not for the whole street. The report compares each site “with the air quality objective of 40µg/m3”, an annual mean. From the borough council's 2026 Air Quality Annual Status Report (May 2026, read 12 October 2026). Every site

Charging an electric car

The nearest public charger mapped on OpenStreetMap is A charging point near Pelham Place, about 770 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.

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.

On the record

Council papers and other documents that name Nelson Road, 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.

HS/FA/25/00741, Land adjacent to 33 Nelson Road (rear of 133 Milward Road)

Planning application at Land adjacent to 33 Nelson Road (rear of 133 Milward Road)

Committee report, agenda item 4, mentions it, Wed 21 Oct 2026, Planning Committee. Source document ↗ not checked

Street names and locations from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.