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Since December 2025: 1 planning application. 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.
Closing dates on Rock Lane
What you can still act on here, closing soonest first. Each says how to act and where its closing date comes from.
Every planning application and decision we hold for Rock Lane, 1 in all (0 granted, 0 refused and 1 not yet decided), 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 (0 granted, 0 refused and 1 not yet decided)
This asks to change the conditions of a permission already granted. Variation of condition 9 (occupation period) of Planning approval HS/FA/84/00268 (Use for holiday chalets, static caravans, touring caravans and camping). Amendment - Extension of the opening period to allow holiday occupancy throughout the year (amended description).
HS/FA/26/00396, validated Thu 2 Jul 2026. No comments from the public on the council’s file. The council’s file ↗
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.
HS/PR/25/00380
Withdrawn. As the Wed 10 Jun 2026 appeal report lists it: “Spindlewood Country Holiday Park, Rock Lane, Hastings, TN35 4JN (HS/PR/25/00380) Application for a Certificate of proposed Lawful development for use of land as a caravan site for the siting of static caravans for use as a main place of residence between 1st March and 30th November in each year. REFUSED PERMISSION DELEGATED Planning”
The Planning Inspectorate: Dismissed · Lawful Development Certificate, hearing · decided 14 Apr 2026 · its page and decision letter ↗
Conservation, listed buildings and protected trees
None of the town’s 18 conservation areas reaches Rock Lane 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 ↗
Orders with a protected tree, group or woodland within about 40 m of the street’s line, from the council’s map data.
TPO 189: made 18 December 1997, confirmed 6 February 1998; 2 trees in the order. The order (PDF) ↗
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 Rock Lane’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.”
High Weald National Landscape ↗ (National Landscape (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty)): Rock Lane’s line passes within about 10 m of it.
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
Problems reported, roadworks, how long reports take to close, and who looks after the road.
Who looks after this street
Adopted highway: yes. Rock Lane is on East Sussex County Council’s map of adopted roads, so the county looks after it: report a problem to East Sussex Highways.
East Sussex County Counciltwo-way temporary lights
Highway repair and maintenance works · standard works (four to ten days) · in the verge · permit EA00642991948-01
12 to 16 January 2026finished 12 January
Southern Water
Remedial works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · clear of the road · permit LQ002SWAT14015667-02
15 to 17 December 2025finished 15 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 8 standard sales of homes on Rock Lane since 2017, and 24 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.
Month
Home
Price
Jul 2025
Detached, freehold
£200,000
Feb 2023
Flat, leasehold
£213,000
Sep 2022
Flat, leasehold
£185,000
Mar 2022
Flat, leasehold
£164,000
Sep 2018
Semi, leasehold
£147,500
Jun 2018
Flat, leasehold
£144,950
Nov 2017
Terraced, freehold
£212,000
Apr 2017
Flat, leasehold
£145,000
Sales and median price by year, 1997 to 2025
Year
Sales
Median price
2025
1
£200,000
2023
1
£213,000
2022
2
£174,500
2018
2
£146,225
2017
2
£178,500
2016
1
£136,500
2008
2
£137,500
2007
2
£127,500
2006
1
£195,000
2003
1
£182,500
2002
1
£58,000
2001
2
£133,750
2000
1
£39,000
1999
3
£34,950
1997
2
£40,500
Every sale, with the address, is in the Land Registry's own search: Rock Lane. House prices in Hastings, by year, kind of home and ward.
11 homes on Rock Lane have a current energy performance certificate, registered 2017 to 2026. 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.
Food hygiene on this street
1 food premises the Food Standards Agency lists at an address on Rock Lane, 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.
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.
Secondary · ages 11 to 16 · Ofsted's latest: report card 13 January 2026
750 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.
Council papers and other documents that name Rock Lane, 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.
Policy HS10: Land at Rock Lane 1. Landscape and visual impact, 2. High Weald National Landscape location. 3. Ecology including tree and woodland, protected species, 4.
HS10: Land at Rock Lane 1. Landscape and visual impact, 2. High Weald National Landscape location. 3. Ecology including tree and woodland, protected species, 4.
Planning application at te a singlestorey one bedroom flat (amended description). REFUSED PERMISSION DELEGATED Planning Spindlewood Country Holiday Park, Rock Lane
Planning application at ssed: Address/ Application Number Proposal PSM’s Rec Where the decision was made Type of Appeal Spindlewood Country Holiday Park, Rock Lane