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The lights are the 2 things on the record here in the last year. Tap one for its details. What’s near William Road on the full map. Green dots are trees under a tree preservation order (indicative only).
William Road 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.
Since December 2025: 1 planning application and 1 planning decision. 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 William Road, 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.
Proposed first floor front and rear roof extensions and dormer extensions with Juliet balconies, side roof light, replacement rear conservatory at ground floor with extended undercroft workshop below and raised decking area.
HS/FA/26/00330, validated Fri 5 Jun 2026, decided in the week of Mon 17 Aug 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.
Conservation, listed buildings and protected trees
None of the town’s 18 conservation areas reaches William Road 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 William Road’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 William Road’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 William Road’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: Leasehold (Out) (let on a lease) · asset WL49-01
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. William Road 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 · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · partly in the road · permit EA00630216007-01
5 to 7 October 2026permit granted
BTgive and take
Utility asset works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · pavement closed, with another way round · permit BC411002WGQTW42D-01
1 September 2026finished 1 September
Southern Water
Utility repair and maintenance works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · clear of the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit LQ002SWAT14646564-01
5 to 7 August 2026finished 6 August
BT
Utility asset works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · partly in the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit BC411001WGQTW42D-02
27 to 28 May 2026no start recorded by 30 September 2026
Southern Water
Traffic management only (an optional permit) · minor works (three days or less) · in the carriageway · partly in the road · permit LQ003SWAT14527477-02
9 to 11 March 2026finished 11 March
Southern Water
Utility repair and maintenance works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · clear of the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit LQ002SWAT14507902-01
12 to 16 February 2026finished 13 February
Southern Water
Utility repair and maintenance works · minor works (three days or less) · in the footway · clear of the road · pavement closed, with another way round · permit LQ002SWAT14468840-01
6 to 8 January 2026finished 8 January
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 17 standard sales of homes on William Road since 2017, and 72 since 1995. Newest first, by month and price; house numbers and flat names are left out. Flats include maisonettes.
33 homes on William Road 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.
74 to Harley Shute Field Way, Blacklands Ark William Parker Academy; 322B to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road; 322E to Ore The Hastings Academy, Ore Montgomery Road; 323 to Conquest Hospital, Hastings station; 323B to Conquest Hospital
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 West St Leonards, about 650 m away: next trains, step-free access and facilities. Step-free access: B3, step-free access only to some platforms.
Crime and policing in West St Leonards ward
William Road's middle is in West St Leonards 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 41 crimes and 9 incidents of anti-social behaviour in West St Leonards ward. In the 12 months to August 2026: 494 crimes and 136 incidents of anti-social behaviour. The ward's figures by category.
Its police team is West St Leonards. The team's next meeting listed on data.police.uk: Community meeting, Monday 4 January 2027, 11am, The Combe Valley Cafe & Discovery Centre, Freshfields, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex.
The team's priorities, as the police word them: ASB Driving.
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 139 Bexhill Road, about 390 m from the middle of this street: an annual mean of 16.6 µg/m³ in 2025.
Every year the report gives: 2021: 18.8, 2022: 18.5, 2023: 15.1, 2024: 17.3, 2025: 16.6 (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 1,450 m from the middle of this street (Charge Your Car · 3 charging points).
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. The practice last confirmed this on 30 September 2026. Information from the NHS website, read 1 November 2026.
Primary · ages 5 to 11 · Ofsted's latest: report card 11 November 2025
910 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 William Road, 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.
Planning application at LAND EAST OF 46 CONQUEROR ROAD
The location of the site was outlined, with Conqueror Road positioned to the west, becoming William Road to the north. The section of Conqueror Road relevant to the application lay beyond a give way junction and formed a cul-de-sac.
Planning application at Land East of 46 Conqueror Road
The location of the site was outlined, with Conqueror Road positioned to the west, becoming William Road to the north. The section of Conqueror Road relevant to the application lay beyond a give way junction and formed a cul ?
Planning application at Land East of 46 Conqueror Road
site notices were displayed; 1 no. on Conqueror Road directly opposite the site on the nearest lamp post, 1 no. on William Road, and 1 no. on the public footpath between Conqueror Road and Edinburgh Road. 38 responses were received from 33 different addresses and 1 no.