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The lights are the 4 things on the record here in the last year. Tap one for its details. What’s near Ponswood 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).
Ponswood 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.
Since December 2025: 2 planning applications and 2 planning decisions. 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 Ponswood Road, 2 in all (1 granted and 1 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 uses the prior-approval route: national rules allow the work, and the council can check only set things, such as its size or its effect on neighbours. Notification for prior approval for a proposed larger homes extension - Proposed single-storey rear extension extending beyond the rear wall of the original detached dwellinghouse with rooflights.
HS/PD/26/00294, validated Fri 15 May 2026, decided in the week of Mon 29 Jun 2026. No comments from the public on the council’s file. The council’s file ↗
Proposed front single storey extension to the existing dwelling.
HS/FA/26/00246, validated Fri 8 May 2026, decided in the week of Mon 29 Jun 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 Ponswood 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 ↗
The council’s map data has no tree preservation order within about 40 m of Ponswood Road’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 Ponswood Road’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.”
No Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Area of Conservation, Local Nature Reserve, ancient woodland or country park is within about 100 m of Ponswood Road’s line, and it is outside the High Weald National Landscape. Protected nature in Hastings
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 Ponswood Road 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.
What homes sold for, their energy ratings, broadband, and business rates.
Homes sold on this street
HM Land Registry records 7 standard sales of homes on Ponswood Road since 2017, and 14 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.
8 homes on Ponswood Road 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.
94 to Bexhill The Harp; 319 to Hollington Whatlington Way, Hollington Hartfield Meadow; 319C to Hollington Whatlington Way; 322 to Hollington Tesco; 322B to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy; 322E to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy
94 to Conquest Hospital, Bexhill The Harp; 98 to Sidley Whitehouse Avenue, Hastings station; 100 to Rye station; 101 to Rye station; 319 to Hastings station; 319C to Hastings station
From the operators' registered timetables (the Bus Open Data Service) for the week of 10 November 2026, and DfT's register of stops (NaPTAN). What is timetabled, not what ran; times are departures.
Crime and policing in Wishing Tree ward
Ponswood Road's middle is in Wishing Tree 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 42 crimes and 9 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Wishing Tree ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 550 crimes and 110 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.
Its police team is Wishing Tree. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community Meeting - Wishing Tree Ward, Monday 9 November 2026, 12pm, Hollington Bowl, Wishing Tree Road North.
The team's priorities, as the police word them: Anti-social Driving; Anti-social Behaviour.
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 St Lukes, Alma Terrace, about 360 m from the middle of this street: an annual mean of 14.1 µg/m³ in 2025.
Every year the report gives: 2021: 18.1, 2022: 16.6, 2023: 15.6, 2024: 14.3, 2025: 14.1 (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
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: children aged 17 or under. The practice last confirmed this on 13 October 2026. Information from the NHS website, read 2 November 2026.
Primary · ages 2 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: ungraded inspection 12 June 2024: “School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next”
910 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.