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St. Matthew's Gardens

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St. Matthew's Gardens
What’s near St. Matthew's Gardens 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).

St. Matthew's Gardens 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, 2023

£425k

  • St. Matthew's Gardens£425k
  • Silverhill£305k
  • Hastings£280k

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

Homes rated A to C for energy

46%

  • St. Matthew's Gardens46%
  • Silverhill41%
  • Hastings52%

Of the 26 homes here with a current certificate.

The figures as a table
HereBeside itBeside it
Median price of a home sold, 2023£425kSilverhill: £305kHastings: £280k
Homes rated A to C for energy46%Silverhill: 41%Hastings: 52%

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 St. Matthew's Gardens, 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)

  • First and Second Floor Flat, 24 St Matthews GardensGranted permission

    Replacement of 2no. timber sash windows to first floor side elevation and 4no. timber sash windows to first floor rear elevation with UPVC Rehau Heritage sash windows.

    HS/FA/26/00480, validated Fri 14 Aug 2026, decided in the week of Mon 5 Oct 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.

Every appeal on the record

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 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

Historic England’s list has no entry that names St. Matthew's Gardens or stands beside its line. Every listed building in Hastings

Tree preservation orders

The council’s map data has no tree preservation order within about 40 m of St. Matthew's Gardens’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 ↗

Conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders: Hastings Borough Council, Open Government Licence v3.0. Street lines © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Flood zones, the coast and protected nature

Flood zones

None of St. Matthew's Gardens’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

No Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Area of Conservation, Local Nature Reserve, ancient woodland or country park is within about 100 m of St. Matthew's Gardens’s line, and it is outside the High Weald National Landscape. 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.

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. St. Matthew's Gardens 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

Planned or under way

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 25 standard sales of homes on St. Matthew's Gardens since 2017, and 101 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.

MonthHomePrice
Jul 2025Semi, freehold£865,000
Mar 2025Semi, freehold£895,000
Oct 2024Flat, leasehold£250,000
Oct 2023Flat, leasehold£425,000
May 2023Flat, leasehold£160,000
Mar 2023Flat, leasehold£443,000
Sep 2022Detached, freehold£555,000
Jul 2022Flat, leasehold£300,000
Mar 2022Detached, freehold£860,000
Dec 2021Detached, freehold£394,000
Jul 2021Flat, leasehold£240,000
Apr 2021Semi, freehold£686,000
All 25 sales since 2017
MonthHomePrice
Feb 2021Flat, leasehold£155,000
Feb 2021Flat, leasehold£152,000
Dec 2020Semi, freehold£700,000
Sep 2020Flat, leasehold£260,000
Jun 2019Flat, leasehold£210,000
Feb 2019Flat, leasehold£165,000
Dec 2018Detached, freehold£464,200
Jul 2018Flat, leasehold£150,000
Apr 2018Flat, leasehold£142,000
Mar 2018Flat, leasehold£242,500
Oct 2017Flat, leasehold£284,950
Jul 2017Flat, leasehold£295,000
Jul 2017Flat, leasehold£161,000
Sales and median price by year, 1995 to 2025
YearSalesMedian price
20252£880,000
20241£250,000
20233£425,000
20223£555,000
20215£240,000
20202£480,000
20192£187,500
20184£196,250
20173£284,950
20167£365,000
20155£200,000
20143£250,000
20132£143,225
20102£187,000
20092£111,500
20073£199,950
20062£275,750
20057£165,000
20043£119,000
20034£181,500
20026£109,250
20014£66,000
20002£58,500
19996£49,725
19987£33,000
19972£60,750
19965£102,500
19954£38,000

Every sale, with the address, is in the Land Registry's own search: St Matthews Gardens. 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

26 homes on St. Matthew's Gardens 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%
B00%
C1246%
D1142%
E28%
F00%
G14%
All26

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: 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.

Buses near St. Matthew's Gardens

  • St Matthew's Gardens (adj)

    321 to Ore Crowborough Road, Hastings station

    Weekdays: 30 buses, 06:34–21:57 · Saturday: 30 buses, 06:34–21:57 · Sunday: 14 buses, 07:04–20:02

    161 m away
  • St Matthew's Gardens (opp)

    321 to Conquest Hospital

    Weekdays: 30 buses, 06:31–22:22 · Saturday: 30 buses, 06:31–22:32 · Sunday: 15 buses, 06:31–20:38

    183 m away
  • St Matthew's Road (opp)

    319 to Hastings station; 319C to Hastings station; 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; 1066 to Hastings station

    Weekdays: 83 buses, 06:07–23:11 · Saturday: 77 buses, 07:15–23:11 · Sunday: 47 buses, 08:50–21:57

    187 m away
  • St Matthew's Road (adj)

    94 to Conquest Hospital, Bexhill The Harp; 98 to Silverhill Chatham Road; 100 to Conquest Hospital, Silverhill Chatham Road; 319 to Hollington Whatlington Way, Hollington Hartfield Meadow; 319C to Hollington Whatlington Way; 322 to Hollington Tesco

    Weekdays: 154 buses, 06:27–23:44 · Saturday: 150 buses, 06:36–23:44 · Sunday: 66 buses, 08:00–22:13

    222 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.

The nearest station is St Leonards Warrior Square, about 950 m away: next trains, step-free access and facilities. Step-free access: B2, (refer to quick reference guide).

Food hygiene on this street

1 food premises the Food Standards Agency lists at an address on St. Matthew's Gardens, 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 Gensing ward

St. Matthew's Gardens's middle is in Gensing 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 100 crimes and 10 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Gensing ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 1,179 crimes and 163 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.

Its police team is Gensing. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community Meeting - Gensing, Sunday 24 January 2027, 5pm, St John Evangelist church, Pevensey Road St Leonards.

The team's priorities, as the police word them: Public Place Violence; Robbery and Public Order; Criminal damage.

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 116 Bohemia Road, about 420 m from the middle of this street: an annual mean of 19.4 µg/m³ in 2025.

Every year the report gives: 2021: 24.1, 2022: 23.8, 2023: 21.6, 2024: 21.3, 2025: 19.4 (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 Charge Your Car near Undercliff, about 1,470 m from the middle of this street (Charge Your Car · 3 charging points).

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.

Street names and locations from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.