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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
None of the town’s 18 conservation areas reaches Rochester 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 Rochester 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 Rochester 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 Rochester 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
Adopted highway: yes. Rochester 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.
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 3 November 2026, and DfT's register of stops (NaPTAN). What is timetabled, not what ran; times are departures.
Crime and policing in Silverhill ward
Rochester Road's middle is in Silverhill 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 32 crimes and 7 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Silverhill ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 430 crimes and 74 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.
Its police team is Silverhill. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community Meeting - Silverhill, Thursday 17 December 2026, 6pm, St Matthews Church Grounds ( We will try and use the hall if it is raining ).
The team's priorities, as the police word them: Hate Crime; Residential Burglary.
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 190 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 30 October 2026.
Primary · ages 2 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: ungraded inspection 12 June 2024: “School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next”
810 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.
Council papers and other documents that name Rochester Road, newest first.
On the record
Nothing on our record names Rochester Road yet: no council paper or report, and no planning application. When something does, it will appear on this page and in its feed.