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Theaklen Drive

In St Leonards-on-sea · Wishing Tree ward · Postcodes on the record: TN38 9AZ · Follow this page (RSS) · how following works

Theaklen DriveSite to West of 22 Theaklen Drive (New application, 23 Oct, Wishing Tree)
The light is the one thing on the record here in the last year. Tap it for its details. What’s near Theaklen Drive on the full map. Green dots are trees under a tree preservation order (indicative only).

Theaklen Drive at a glance

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Since November 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.

Planning on this street

Every planning application and decision we hold for Theaklen Drive, 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)

  • Site to West of 22 Theaklen DriveRegistered

    This asks the council to confirm that planning permission isn't needed. Application for a Certificate of proposed Lawful development for the the installation of metal cabinets, a small antenna, and a secure compound structure, together with enclosure works comprising treated timber with metal posts proposal for building and other operations comprising the siting and installation of broadband equipment and associated telecommunications apparatus

    HS/PR/26/00618, validated Fri 23 Oct 2026. No comments from the public on the council’s file. The council’s file ↗

Conservation, listed buildings and protected trees

None of the town’s 18 conservation areas reaches Theaklen Drive 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 ↗

Listed buildings

Historic England’s list has no entry that names Theaklen Drive or stands beside its line. Every listed building in Hastings

Tree preservation orders near Theaklen Drive

Orders with a protected tree, group or woodland within about 40 m of the street’s line, from the council’s map data.

  • TPO 186: made 12 November 1997, confirmed 6 February 1998; 1 group of 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 ↗

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 Theaklen Drive’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

  • Ponds Wood LNR ↗ (Local Nature Reserve): Theaklen Drive’s line passes within about 100 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

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 2 more on the whole list.

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. Theaklen Drive 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.

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 Theaklen Drive

  • Asda (o/s)

    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

    Weekdays: 99 buses, 06:28–23:38 · Saturday: 93 buses, 07:05–23:39 · Sunday: 49 buses, 08:02–22:14

    178 m away
  • Asda (opp)

    94 to Conquest Hospital; 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

    Weekdays: 98 buses, 06:05–23:09 · Saturday: 94 buses, 06:44–23:09 · Sunday: 52 buses, 08:48–21:55

    185 m away
  • Filling Station (adj)

    94 to Conquest Hospital; 100 to Conquest Hospital; 101 to Conquest Hospital; 321 to Conquest Hospital; 349 to The Moor The Eight Bells

    Weekdays: 50 buses, 06:34–22:24 · Saturday: 53 buses, 06:34–22:34 · Sunday: 28 buses, 06:34–20:40

    230 m away
  • Ponswood Road (adj)

    321 to Conquest Hospital

    Weekdays: 30 buses, 06:33–22:23 · Saturday: 30 buses, 06:33–22:33 · Sunday: 15 buses, 06:33–20:39

    250 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

3 food premises the Food Standards Agency lists at an address on Theaklen Drive, 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 Wishing Tree ward

Theaklen Drive's middle is in Wishing Tree 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 42 crimes and 9 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Wishing Tree ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 550 crimes and 110 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.

Its police team is Wishing Tree. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community Meeting - Wishing Tree Ward, Monday 9 November 2026, 12pm, Hollington Bowl, Wishing Tree Road North.

The team's priorities, as the police word them: Anti-social Driving; Anti-social Behaviour.

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 340 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.

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.

On the record

Council papers and other documents that name Theaklen Drive, 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.

2026-27 P06 Financial Update Report to end of September 2026 - Q2

The affected properties include four industrial units at 8 Castleham Road, 20 Castleham Road, 16 Theaklen Drive and 4 Maunsell Road, together with Unit 2, Lacuna Place, the 1st floor offices at Bank Buildings and the kiosk on Bottle Alley.

Committee report, agenda item 5, mentions it, Mon 9 Nov 2026, Cabinet. Source document ↗ not checked

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