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Rock-a-Nore Road

In Hastings · Old Hastings ward · The Stade and Rock-a-Nore · Postcodes on the record: TN34 3DW · Follow this page (RSS) · how following works

Rock-a-Nore RoadThe Ice House, Rock-a-Nore Road (New application, 14 Aug, Old Hastings)The Ice House, Rock-a-Nore Road (Granted permission, 12 Oct, Old Hastings)
The lights are the 2 things on the record here in the last year. Tap one for its details. What’s near Rock-a-Nore 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).

Rock-a-Nore 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, 2022

£325k

  • Rock-a-Nore Road£325k
  • Old Hastings£342k
  • Hastings£290k

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

Homes rated A to C for energy

67%

  • Rock-a-Nore Road67%
  • Old Hastings31%
  • Hastings52%

Of the 15 homes here with a current certificate.

The figures as a table
HereBeside itBeside it
Median price of a home sold, 2022£325kOld Hastings: £342kHastings: £290k
Homes rated A to C for energy67%Old Hastings: 31%Hastings: 52%
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Since November 2025: 1 planning application and 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 Rock-a-Nore Road, 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.

2026: 1 application (1 granted and 0 refused)

  • The Ice House, Rock-a-Nore RoadGranted permission

    Proposed replacement of existing timber decking on all existing external balconies with AliDeck aluminium decking boards. (amended description)

    HS/FA/26/00410, validated Fri 14 Aug 2026, decided in the week of Mon 12 Oct 2026. No comments from the public on the council’s file. The council’s file ↗

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 Rock-a-Nore Road 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 ↗

Listed buildings (7)

From Historic England’s list: 1 whose list entry names Rock-a-Nore Road and 6 whose map point is beside its line. The list entry says what is protected, which can include attached walls and railings.

  • Net and Tackle Stores on Beach including Groups L to W (Consecutive)

    beside the street · listed 14 September 1976 · The list entry ↗

    Grade II*
  • 21 and 22, Rock-A-Nore Road

    listed 14 September 1976 · The list entry ↗

    Grade II
  • East Hill Lift

    beside the street · listed 14 September 1976 · The list entry ↗

    Grade II
  • East Well (At Base of East Hill Lift)

    beside the street · listed 14 September 1976 · The list entry ↗

    Grade II
  • Fishing Net and Tackle Store (Immediately West of the Net Shop Jellied Eel Bar)

    beside the street · listed 14 September 1976 · The list entry ↗

    Grade II
  • Hastings Fishermen's Museum

    beside the street · listed 14 September 1976 · The list entry ↗

    Grade II
  • Lavender House

    beside the street · listed 19 January 1951 · The list entry ↗

    Grade II

Tree preservation orders near Rock-a-Nore 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. Listed buildings: © Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Flood zones, the coast and protected nature

Flood zones

None of Rock-a-Nore 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.”

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

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

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.

And 5 more on the whole list.

Licensing applications here

From the council's list of licensing applications and reviews.

All licensing applications

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. Rock-a-Nore 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 4 standard sales of homes on Rock-a-Nore Road since 2017, and 40 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.

MonthHomePrice
Dec 2022Terraced, freehold£392,500
Sep 2022Flat, leasehold£305,000
Jul 2022Flat, leasehold£325,000
Jan 2017Flat, leasehold£340,000
Sales and median price by year, 1996 to 2022
YearSalesMedian price
20223£325,000
20171£340,000
201611£350,000
20154£280,000
20121£205,000
20091£200,000
20081£130,000
20072£204,000
20062£243,250
20052£274,500
20041£127,000
20031£158,000
20021£142,000
20011£92,000
20002£71,000
19991£49,500
19982£48,498
19971£45,500
19962£43,750

Every sale, with the address, is in the Land Registry's own search: Rock A Nore 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

15 homes on Rock-a-Nore Road have a current energy performance certificate, registered 2017 to 2026. Each home counts once, by its newest certificate; homes without one aren't counted.

BandHomesShare
A00%
B427%
C640%
D320%
E17%
F17%
G00%
All15

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.

Broadband here

The record holds one postcode for this street: some premises there could get gigabit-capable broadband, not all, 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.

Buses near Rock-a-Nore Road

  • Roebuck Street (opp)

    70 to Hastings station; 73 to Old Town The Stade; 100 to Conquest Hospital, Silverhill Chatham Road; 101 to Hastings station, Silverhill Chatham Road; 321 to Conquest Hospital, Hastings station

    Weekdays: 60 buses, 05:54–23:25 · Saturday: 57 buses, 05:54–23:25 · Sunday: 25 buses, 06:59–20:09

    207 m away
  • Roebuck Street (adj)

    70 to Rye station; 73 to Blacklands Ark William Parker Academy; 100 to Rye station; 101 to Rye station; 321 to Ore Crowborough Road

    Weekdays: 61 buses, 05:53–22:21 · Saturday: 58 buses, 06:53–22:21 · Sunday: 25 buses, 07:37–20:32

    231 m away
  • The Stade (opp)

    70 to Rye station; 73 to Blacklands Ark William Parker Academy; 100 to Rye station; 101 to Rye station; 321 to Ore Crowborough Road

    Weekdays: 61 buses, 05:53–22:20 · Saturday: 58 buses, 06:53–22:20 · Sunday: 25 buses, 07:37–20:31

    294 m away
  • The Stade (adj)

    70 to Hastings station; 100 to Conquest Hospital, Silverhill Chatham Road; 101 to Hastings station, Silverhill Chatham Road; 321 to Conquest Hospital, Hastings station

    Weekdays: 59 buses, 05:55–23:26 · Saturday: 57 buses, 05:55–23:26 · Sunday: 25 buses, 07:00–20:10

    373 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.

Food hygiene on this street

17 food premises the Food Standards Agency lists at an address on Rock-a-Nore Road, by name. A rating is what an inspector found on the day. Each business links to its Food Standards Agency page, which has the scores behind it.

Every rating in Hastings

Crime and policing in Old Hastings ward

Rock-a-Nore Road's middle is in Old Hastings 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 45 crimes and 22 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Old Hastings ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 451 crimes and 179 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.

Its police team is Old Hastings. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community meeting- Old Town Hastings, Sunday 17 January 2027, 3pm, Outside The Stables Theatre, Old London Road, Hastings.

The team's priorities, as the police word them: Drug Dealing; ASB / Street Drinking.

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.

Charging an electric car

The nearest public charger mapped on OpenStreetMap is A charging point near Pelham Place, about 710 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.

Sewage releases nearby

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.

Every outfall near the beaches · today's beach-by-beach picture on Swim Hastings

On the record

Council papers and other documents that name Rock-a-Nore 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.

Appendix 1 Draft Local Plan - Pre Submission (Regulation 19) September 2026

Again, defined on the Policies Map, the town centre boundary for The Old Town covers George Street and High Street, East Parade and Rock-a-Nore Road. George Street and High Street form the PSA. 4.64. Though smaller in scale to St Leonards and The Old Town, Silverhill has a large-scale supermarket justifying its inclusion as district centre.

Committee report, agenda item 6, mentions it, Wed 23 Sep 2026, Full Council. Source document ↗ not checked

Appendix 1- Plan V19.2.4 Cabinet Issue with Annex 1

Again, defined on the Policies Map, the town centre boundary for The Old Town covers George Street and High Street, East Parade and Rock-a-Nore Road. George Street and High Street form the PSA. 1.60. Though smaller in scale to St Leonards and The Old Town, Silverhill has a large-scale supermarket justifying its inclusion as district centre.

Committee report, agenda item 5, mentions it, Mon 7 Sep 2026, Cabinet. Source document ↗ not checked

Coastal Users Group 04 06 26 Minutes

Tim said he had nothing further to add beyond his regular updates but returned to an issue he has raised repeatedly in previous meetings, namely the condition of Rock-a-Nore Road. He emphasised that this area remains the main tourist route, yet still looks “pretty disastrous,” and as the first thing many visitors see, it gives a poor impression not just of Rock-a-Nore but of the town as a whole.

Committee report, agenda item 4, mentions it, Mon 22 Jun 2026, Charity Committee. Source document ↗ not checked

CUG meeting 19 03 26 minutes

Some ideas discussed at the meeting today included placing history boards at various locations along the seafront, screens around rotundas, showers and various events to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Sidney Little being appointed as Borough Engineer, 100th anniversary of White Rock Theatre, 200th anniversary of St Leonards, setting up a heritage zone in Rock-a-Nore Road, All ideas should be forwarded to Abbie in the first instance. Officers will then look at costing these and carry out feasibility studies where necessary.

Committee report, agenda item 4, mentions it, Mon 23 Mar 2026, Charity Committee. Source document ↗ not checked

Minutes Public Pack, 17/12/2025 Planning

Planning application at 39.2 Car Park, Rock-a-Nore Road

Committee report, agenda item 3, mentions it, Wed 4 Feb 2026, Planning Committee. Source document ↗ not checked

Planning Committee agenda

Planning application at Car Park, Rock-a-Nore Road

Committee agenda, mentions it, Wed 17 Dec 2025, Planning Committee. Source document ↗ not checked

Planning Committee minutes

Planning application at 39b Car Park, Rock-a-Nore Road

Committee minutes, mentions it, Wed 17 Dec 2025, Planning Committee. Source document ↗ not checked

HS/FA/25/00322, Car Park, Rock-a-Nore Road

Planning application at Car Park, Rock-a-Nore Road

Committee report, agenda item 5, mentions it, Wed 17 Dec 2025, Planning Committee. Source document ↗ not checked

CUG 27.10.25 Minutes

Tim reported that there have been 85-90k visitors this year to the Shipwreck Museum, with the hands-on activities still proving popular. Rock-a-Nore Road, however, is still a disgrace and as it has not reached the required level of degradation according to ESCC, nothing is being done to fix it.

Committee report, agenda item 3, mentions it, Wed 5 Nov 2025, Charity Committee. Source document ↗ not checked

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