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What’s near Portland Place 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).
Portland Place 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.
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.
Conservation, listed buildings and protected trees
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 street index lists these properties on Portland Place under Article 4 directions, which take away some building work that wouldn’t otherwise need planning permission:
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 Portland Place’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 Portland Place’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 Portland Place’s line, and it is outside the High Weald National Landscape. Protected nature in Hastings
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.
Freehold; the list's tenure details: Leasehold (out) (let on a lease) · asset POJH-01
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. Portland Place 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 · standard works (four to ten days) · in the footway · partly in the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit KZ50074340609-01
17 to 26 June 2026finished 25 June
Southern Water
Utility repair and maintenance works · urgent works · in the carriageway · partly in the road · permit LQ002SWAT14559497-01
15 to 20 April 2026finished 20 April
East Sussex County Councilroad closed
Highway repair and maintenance works · urgent works · in the carriageway · permit EA004172132-01
8 December 2025finished 8 December 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 3 standard sales of homes on Portland Place since 2017, and 17 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.
22 homes on Portland Place have a current energy performance certificate, registered 2017 to 2025. Each home counts once, by its newest certificate; homes without one aren't counted.
27 to Hastings station; 323 to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy, Harley Shute Field Way; 328 to Conquest Hospital; 331 to Hastings station; 347 to Pett Pett Road, West Hill Mount Pleasant Court
322 to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road; 322B to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road; 322E to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery 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.
The nearest station is Hastings, about 450 m away: next trains, step-free access and facilities. Step-free access: A, Compliant step-free access to all platform(s).
Crime and policing in Castle ward
Portland Place'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 Carlise Parade, about 480 m from the middle of this street: an annual mean of 16.5 µg/m³ in 2025.
Every year the report gives: 2021: 19.3, 2022: 19.1, 2023: 16.9, 2024: 16.0, 2025: 16.5 (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 320 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 does not accept new NHS patients for routine care. The practice last confirmed this on 21 September 2026. Information from the NHS website, read 30 October 2026.
Special · ages 4 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: ungraded inspection 23 February 2023: “School remains Outstanding”
940 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.
The storm overflow nearest this street, from Southern Water's feed as Swim Hastings records it. Estimates based on public discharge and environmental data — not water quality testing. Swim at your own judgment.
Hastings town centre / Pelham outfall (Priory Stream culvert area)
0.3 km from the street · 1 release in the last 30 days · 3 in 12 months (1.1 h) · last began Thu 22 Oct 2026
Council papers and other documents that name Portland Place, newest first.
On the record
Nothing on our record names Portland Place yet: no council paper or report, and no planning application. When something does, it will appear on this page and in its feed.