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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 Watermill 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 ↗
The council’s map data has no tree preservation order within about 40 m of Watermill Drive’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 Watermill 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.”
No Site of Special Scientific Interest, Special Area of Conservation, Local Nature Reserve, ancient woodland or country park is within about 100 m of Watermill Drive’s line, and it is outside the High Weald National Landscape. Protected nature in Hastings
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.
Freehold; the list's tenure details: Ground Lease (out) (let on a ground lease) · asset MAYL-04
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. Watermill 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.
Utility asset works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · partly in the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit UY013200003864645-01
19 to 21 August 2026finished 19 August
BT
Utility repair and maintenance works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · partly in the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit BC004WGTLK62D-01
27 to 31 March 2026finished 27 March
Southern Water
Utility repair and maintenance works · urgent works · in the footway · clear of the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit LQ002SWAT14532742-01
11 to 13 March 2026finished 13 March
Southern Water
Utility repair and maintenance works · urgent works · in the footway · partly in the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit LQ002SWAT14456510-01
29 November to 3 December 2025finished 4 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.
Energy ratings on this street
58 homes on Watermill Drive have a current energy performance certificate, registered 2017 to 2025. Each home counts once, by its newest certificate; homes without one aren't counted.
74 to Blacklands Ark William Parker Academy; 319 to Hastings station, Hollington Hartfield Meadow; 319C to Hastings station; 322B to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy, Ore The Hastings Academy
74 to Blacklands Ark William Parker Academy; 319 to Hastings station; 319C to Hastings station; 322B to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy, Ore The Hastings Academy
74 to Blacklands Ark William Parker Academy; 319 to Hastings station, Hollington Hartfield Meadow; 319C to Hastings station; 322B to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy, Ore The Hastings Academy
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 Hollington ward
Watermill Drive's middle is in Hollington 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 43 crimes and 26 incidents of anti-social behaviour in Hollington ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 551 crimes and 160 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.
Its police team is Hollington. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community Meeting - For Hollington Residents, Monday 9 November 2026, 12pm, Hollington Bowl, Wishing Tree Road North.
The team's priorities, as the police word them: Anti-Social Behaviour; Anti-social Driving / Theft from or of vehicles.
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.
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.
Primary · ages 2 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: graded inspection 11 October 2022: overall effectiveness Good
930 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 Watermill Drive, newest first.
On the record
Nothing on our record names Watermill Drive yet: no council paper or report, and no planning application. When something does, it will appear on this page and in its feed.