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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.
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.
Conservation, listed buildings and protected trees
None of the town’s 18 conservation areas reaches Westfield 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 314: made 23 June 2021, confirmed 4 August 2021; 7 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 Westfield 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)): Westfield Lane’s line passes within about 10 m of it.
Ancient woodland: Westfield Lane’s line passes within about 100 m of 1 parcel on Natural England’s inventory (Baldslow/Dines Woods).
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. Westfield 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.
Highway repair and maintenance works · major works (eleven days or more, or needing a traffic order) · in the carriageway · permit EA101Y4-060A-03
8 March to 17 April 2027permit granted
In the last 13 months
National Highwaysmulti-way temporary lights
Works for road purposes · minor works (three days or less) · in the carriageway · permit FN404613044_ENVIRO-01
11 to 12 September 2026no start recorded by 30 September 2026
East Sussex County Councilmulti-way temporary lights
Highway repair and maintenance works · standard works (four to ten days) · in the carriageway · permit EA101HM-0442-Y4-060C-01
27 April to 3 May 2026finished 2 May
National Highwaysmulti-way temporary lights
Works for road purposes · standard works (four to ten days) · in the carriageway · permit FN404MARCH613044WL-01
23 to 28 March 2026finished 28 March
National Highwaysmulti-way temporary lights
Works for road purposes · standard works (four to ten days) · in the carriageway · permit FN404613044WLTTL-02
24 to 29 November 2025finished 29 November 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 3 standard sales of homes on Westfield Lane since 2017, and 14 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.
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.
Charging an electric car
The nearest public charger mapped on OpenStreetMap is GeniePoint near John Macadam Way, about 1,260 m from the middle of this street (no details mapped).
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.
The practice told the NHS it does not accept new NHS patients for routine care. It accepts new NHS patients only for specialist care, by referral from another dentist. Information from the NHS website, read 1 November 2026.
Council papers and other documents that name Westfield 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.
The main underspend was at The Keep, where planned capital expenditure was treated as revenue rather than capital, with smaller underspends across Climate Control Works, Urban Tree Challenge and Hastings Town Centre Public Realm and Green Connections. BSD underspends related to a completed IT project, Schools Basic Need and Westfield Lane. Becky Shaw, Chief Executive How to read this report This report integrates monitoring for finance, performance and risk.