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13 Ponswood Road (New application, 8 May, Wishing Tree)13 Ponswood Road (New application, 15 May, Wishing Tree)70 Hollington Old Lane (Granted permission, 18 May, Wishing Tree)248 Wishing Tree Road (Part granted - part refused, 18 May, Wishing Tree)211 Wishing Tree Road (Granted permission, 18 May, Wishing Tree)54 Ironlatch Avenue (New application, 19 May, Wishing Tree)Iris Court & Primrose Court, Snowdrop Rise (New application, 6 Jun, Wishing Tree)Rear of 248 Wishing Tree Road (New application, 8 Jun, Wishing Tree)Land to the rear 1 Celandine Drive (Granted permission, 8 Jun, Wishing Tree)13 Ponswood Road (General pd refused, 29 Jun, Wishing Tree)13 Ponswood Road (Granted permission, 29 Jun, Wishing Tree)54 Ironlatch Avenue (Refused permission, 6 Jul, Wishing Tree)Rear of 248 Wishing Tree Road (Granted permission, 13 Jul, Wishing Tree)Iris Court & Primrose Court, Snowdrop Rise (Refused permission, 27 Jul, Wishing Tree)Street Record, Celandine Drive (New application, 20 Aug, Wishing Tree)Land adjoining, Wartling Gardens (Refused permission, 24 Aug, Wishing Tree)Philips House, Drury Lane (New application, 15 Sep, Wishing Tree)Land adj Stonehouse Drive Recycling Point, Stonehouse Drive (New application, 15 Sep, Wishing Tree)Pothole more than 30 cm wide or 6 cm deep (Reported 29 Sep near Coventry Road)Site to West of 22 Theaklen Drive (New application, 23 Oct, Wishing Tree)
The lights are the 20 things on the record in Wishing Tree in the last year. Tap one for its details. Wishing Tree on the full map. Ward boundary from the Office for National Statistics; roads © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Councillors and elections

Who represents you

Borough councillors (planning, housing, licensing, the borough's own services) are the ward's own, from the borough's register. At county level (highways, social care, schools) this area is in the division named; a division covers more than one ward, and the exact boundary is the county's rather than ours.

How this ward voted

Hastings Borough Council Election, 7 May 2026. Candidates most votes first; the elected candidate is marked.

This election in full
Earlier results for this ward

The next elections here

These are the councils’ usual cycles, counted from the last elections on the record; the returning officer confirms a poll when its notice of election is published, on the council’s elections and voting page. Local government reorganisation, which the government paused on 7 September 2026, could change this: where reorganisation stands.

Am I registered? You register once, online, at gov.uk/register-to-vote. To check whether you’re already on the register, gov.uk says to contact your electoral registration office: for Hastings, that is the borough council’s Electoral Services. Where do I vote? finds your polling station by postcode at election time.

Who stood here on Thursday 7 May 2026, with the statements of persons nominated

Candidates from Democracy Club, who copy them from the councils' statements of persons nominated (CC BY 4.0).

You can act on these now

Closing dates in Wishing Tree

What you can still act on here, closing soonest first. Each says how to act and where its closing date comes from.

Everything you can still act on, across Hastings, soonest first.

Consultations open to everyone

Open consultations cover the whole borough, including this ward. Live status for floods, power and transport is on the live page.

Coming up

Council meetings in the next 31 days whose papers mention this ward's streets. Reading the papers before the meeting gives you time to ask a councillor about them.

Planning and decisions here

What has been applied for and decided in the ward, the plans that cover it, and appeals.

What has been proposed and decided in this ward

Local Plan sites in this ward

Sites the council's draft Local Plan names in this ward, from their policy headings. What each allows is in the plan itself; the Local Plan page has every site, the timetable and how to respond.

Show planning appeals in this ward

Appeals on this ward's streets. 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.

  • HS/FA/24/00239, Chambers Road

    Dismissed: the council’s decision stands. As the Wed 22 Oct 2025 appeal report lists it: “Mission Church (St Annes), 11 Chambers Road, St Leonards-onsea, TN38 9HY HS/FA/24/00239 Demolition of redundant church and erection of five dwellings with some on-site parking REFUSED PERMISSION DELEGATED Planning”

    The Planning Inspectorate: Allowed · Planning Appeal, written representations · decided 23 Sep 2025 · its page and decision letter ↗

  • 2 Chambers Crescent ↗

    Dismissed · Householder (HAS), written representations · decided 26 Jul 2023

    Appeal against: refused planning permission

    Council reference HS/FA/22/00960

    Case 3320874
  • Battle Road, Hollington ↗

    Dismissed · Planning Appeal, written representations · decided 7 Apr 2022

    Appeal against: refused prior approval of permitted development rights

    Council reference HS/TL/21/00521/MJ

    Appellant: CK Hutchison Networks (UK) Ltd

    Case 3280683
  • Office and Land, 46A Battle Road ↗

    Allowed · Planning Appeal, written representations · decided 21 Dec 2021

    Appeal against: refused planning permission

    Council reference HS/FA/20/00631

    Appellant: Coleman Construction and Utilities Ltd

    Case 3273769

Every appeal on the record

Conservation areas and listed buildings

1 listed building (1 grade II) is in or beside the ward. The list for Wishing Tree

Listed buildings: © Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Living here

Homes, crime, schools, care, green space, buses, food hygiene and the sea nearby.

Homes sold in this ward

In 2025 HM Land Registry recorded 69 standard sales of homes in Wishing Tree ward, at a median price of £275,000.

YearSalesMedian price
2026 (to August)33£277,000
202569£275,000
202443£280,000
202352£262,500
202272£280,000
202196£245,000
202065£227,000
201970£214,000
201896£200,000
201771£212,000
Earlier years, 1995 to 2016
YearSalesMedian price
201676£179,975
201578£178,250
2014104£159,950
201371£143,000
201247£145,000
201149£126,000
201058£134,500
200964£128,000
200883£160,000
2007144£155,975
2006137£143,000
200583£134,950
2004106£125,000
200383£120,000
2002114£91,000
2001113£77,500
200092£63,750
1999106£53,500
199886£53,500
1997110£45,500
199663£42,000
199558£49,250

A sale is in the ward when its postcode is, by the ONS postcode directory; a sale whose postcode has since been retired goes by its street. Each street page lists its own sales. House prices in Hastings.

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 in this ward

1,387 homes in Wishing Tree ward have a current energy performance certificate, registered 2016 to 2026. Each home counts once, by its newest certificate; a home is in the ward its postcode is in.

BandHomesShare
A4under 1%
B18513%
C72752%
D38228%
E776%
F9under 1%
G3under 1%
All1,387

Each street page has its own counts. Energy ratings in Hastings, and 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.

Reported crime in the ward

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.

Category, as the police name itAugust 202612 months to August 2026
Bicycle theft02
Burglary017
Criminal damage and arson570
Drugs010
Other theft440
Possession of weapons215
Public order239
Robbery212
Shoplifting785
Theft from the person01
Vehicle crime228
Violence and sexual offences17210
Other crime121
All crimes42550
Anti-social behaviour (incidents)9110
0255075September 2023: 38 crimesSep 23October 2023: 41 crimesNovember 2023: 44 crimesDecember 2023: 51 crimesJanuary 2024: 42 crimesJan 24February 2024: 55 crimesMarch 2024: 52 crimesApril 2024: 49 crimesMay 2024: 49 crimesJune 2024: 54 crimesJuly 2024: 58 crimesAugust 2024: 56 crimesSeptember 2024: 36 crimesOctober 2024: 43 crimesNovember 2024: 62 crimes62December 2024: 60 crimesJanuary 2025: 38 crimesJan 25February 2025: 47 crimesMarch 2025: 55 crimesApril 2025: 48 crimesMay 2025: 40 crimesJune 2025: 36 crimesJuly 2025: 47 crimesAugust 2025: 45 crimesSeptember 2025: 46 crimesOctober 2025: 50 crimesNovember 2025: 42 crimesDecember 2025: 48 crimesJanuary 2026: 43 crimesJan 26February 2026: 39 crimesMarch 2026: 49 crimesApril 2026: 56 crimesMay 2026: 37 crimesJune 2026: 45 crimesJuly 2026: 53 crimesAugust 2026: 42 crimesAug 2642
Crimes recorded each month in Wishing Tree ward, as a table
Sep 2338
Oct 2341
Nov 2344
Dec 2351
Jan 2442
Feb 2455
Mar 2452
Apr 2449
May 2449
Jun 2454
Jul 2458
Aug 2456
Sep 2436
Oct 2443
Nov 2462
Dec 2460
Jan 2538
Feb 2547
Mar 2555
Apr 2548
May 2540
Jun 2536
Jul 2547
Aug 2545
Sep 2546
Oct 2550
Nov 2542
Dec 2548
Jan 2643
Feb 2639
Mar 2649
Apr 2656
May 2637
Jun 2645
Jul 2653
Aug 2642

These are crimes, and incidents of anti-social behaviour, reported to and recorded by the police, as published on data.police.uk. Not every crime is reported to the police, so they are not all the crime there is. Anti-social behaviour is counted separately: the police record it as incidents, not crimes.

Each crime is published with an anonymised map point, and we count it in the ward whose boundary holds that point. In data.police.uk's words: “The latitude and longitude locations of Crime and ASB incidents published on this site always represent the approximate location of a crime — not the exact place that it happened.” Each point is the nearest of a fixed list of points over a street or public place, so a crime near a ward's edge can be counted in the ward next door. The site also says that, of the crimes published, “some may be reclassified as a different type of crime in future months, or confirmed as a false report after investigation”, and that “Estimates of geocoding accuracy in different forces range from 60% to 97%.” About the data.

From data.police.uk, read 12 October 2026; Open Government Licence. Ward boundaries from the ONS (OGL). We keep only the count for each ward, category and month: no crime's place or outcome.

Every ward, and the town.

The ward's police team

Sussex Police's neighbourhood team for this area is called Wishing Tree.

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.

data.police.uk's entry for the team says: “Monday to Saturday from 9am until 8pm”

The team's priorities

As the police word them on data.police.uk, with their dates.

Meetings and events coming up

What the council lists here

Entries on the borough council's land and assets list whose postcode is in the ward, in the list's own words. Entries held for the Foreshore Trust say so. The whole list and how it is read.

All 40 in Wishing Tree ward

Care and health services in Wishing Tree

Registered with CQC at an address in the ward: 1 care homes, 4 care at home and supported living, 1 GP surgeries.

This page uses Care Quality Commission information. Every one, with its rating.

Green space

8 green spaces in Wishing Tree on Ordnance Survey's map, 4.8 hectares, about 3% of the ward: 1 public park or garden, 3 play spaces, 1 playing field, 1 allotment or growing space, 1 bowling green, 1 churchyard or religious ground. 3 play areas in all, counting playgrounds mapped only on OpenStreetMap.

A site counts in the ward that holds its middle; hectares are the ground inside the ward, and a play space inside a park adds to the count, not the area. Every ward, and each space. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (OS Open Greenspace).

How long street reports here took to close

Of the 6 problems reported in Wishing Tree ward that our record holds, 4 are closed on FixMyStreet and 2 are still open. The median time from report to close was 4 days: half the closed reports took longer, half less. Reports still open aren’t in that figure.

“Closed” is FixMyStreet’s status, set by the council or the person who reported it. It is not proof that anything was fixed. Our record of reports starts on 3 August 2026. Older open reports have been checked again for closure since 11 October 2026; before then a report that closed later could still show as open here.

Brownfield land in this ward

2 sites in Wishing Tree on the council's brownfield register now.

From Hastings Borough Council's Brownfield Land Register ↗ (published March 2025), its statutory register of brownfield land suitable for housing, read on 12 October 2026. Being on the register grants no planning permission. Every site on the register

Street problems reported here

Open reports from residents, made through FixMyStreet. “Near” means the nearest listed street to the point the reporter marked, not an address they gave. Reports that describe people, such as a tent or someone sleeping rough, are left out (the rule).

All street problems

Buses in Wishing Tree

26 stops in the ward, served by 12 routes (74, 94, 94A, 319, 319C, 322, 322B, 322E, 323B, 359, 384, 1066), with 868 departures between them on a weekday. The busiest:

  • 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

    on Battle Road
  • Old Harrow Road (opp)

    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, 06:30–23:40 · Saturday: 93 buses, 07:06–23:41 · Sunday: 49 buses, 08:04–22:15

    on Battle Road
  • Paynton Road (opp)

    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, 06:29–23:39 · Saturday: 93 buses, 07:06–23:40 · Sunday: 49 buses, 08:03–22:15

    on Battle Road
  • Rymill Road (opp)

    94 to Conquest Hospital; 94A to Conquest Hospital, Bexhill The Harp; 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; 359 to West Hill Whitefriars Road

    Weekdays: 47 buses, 06:37–21:50 · Saturday: 44 buses, 07:10–21:50 · Sunday: 25 buses, 08:43–21:50

    on Blackman Avenue
  • Playing Fields (adj)

    74 to Blacklands Ark William Parker Academy; 94 to Bexhill The Harp; 94A to Bexhill The Harp; 322 to Hollington Tesco; 322B to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy; 322E to Harley Shute The St Leonards Academy

    Weekdays: 38 buses, 06:39–23:22 · Saturday: 33 buses, 07:33–23:25 · Sunday: 13 buses, 10:35–22:23

    on Church Wood Drive

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 in this ward

The Food Standards Agency places 16 food premises in Wishing Tree; 93% of the 14 rated 0 to 5 are rated 5, and none is rated 0, 1 or 2. The most recently rated are below, newest first. 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

Wishing Tree at a glance

Who lives here, and how the ward compares with Hastings as a whole.

Show the ward's figures

Wishing Tree among the sixteen wards

Wishing Tree is the blue dot, the other wards are grey, and the dashed line is Hastings as a whole.

Aged under 15% of people, Census 2021Hastings 16.8%
Wishing Tree 19.2%
Aged 65 and over% of people, Census 2021Hastings 20.2%
Wishing Tree 19.6%
Owner-occupied homes% of households, Census 2021Hastings 57.1%
Wishing Tree 50.4%
Privately rented homes% of households, Census 2021Hastings 28.6%
Wishing Tree 14.1%
Socially rented homes% of households, Census 2021Hastings 14.3%
Wishing Tree 35.6%
Claiming unemployment benefits% of residents aged 16 to 64Hastings 5.0%
Wishing Tree 4.8%
Every ward's figures as a table
Aged under 15Aged 65 and overOwner-occupied homesPrivately rented homesSocially rented homesClaiming unemployment benefits
Ashdown17.5%19.7%76.3%15.4%8.4%3.2%
Baird21.3%19.5%56.9%13.1%30.0%5.4%
Braybrooke15.1%21.1%61.7%33.5%4.8%4.9%
Castle13.3%15.3%40.3%51.0%8.6%7.4%
Central St Leonards13.4%18.0%33.0%52.7%14.2%7.0%
Conquest16.1%24.3%78.5%19.2%2.3%2.6%
Gensing15.4%15.9%46.0%47.1%6.8%7.2%
Hollington22.8%14.1%46.2%16.0%37.8%4.4%
Maze Hill13.1%28.9%66.4%24.5%9.2%3.7%
Old Hastings12.7%24.5%67.5%25.3%7.1%3.8%
Ore20.7%19.6%60.5%23.8%15.6%5.2%
Silverhill16.8%22.2%67.7%22.2%10.1%2.9%
St Helens12.7%34.4%78.5%12.4%9.1%2.5%
Tressell22.1%12.3%48.3%25.3%26.4%6.9%
West St Leonards17.5%19.2%70.3%21.8%8.0%3.6%
Wishing Tree19.2%19.6%50.4%14.1%35.6%4.8%
Hastings16.8%20.2%57.1%28.6%14.3%5.0%

The ward in figures

  • 5,903 people lived here at the 2021 census, 6% of the borough's 90,995.
  • The Office for National Statistics estimates 5,875 people lived here in mid-2024, its latest estimate for wards.
  • At the census, 19% were under 15 and 20% were 65 or over (across the borough: 17% and 20%).
  • Of its 2,491 households, 50% owned their home (outright, with a mortgage or shared ownership), 36% rented from the council or a housing association, 14% rented privately (across the borough: 57%, 14%, 29%).
  • 2 of the ward's 3 neighbourhoods are among the most deprived 10% in England on the 2025 indices (across the borough: 18 of 53).
  • 165 people here were on the claimant count in September 2026 (4.8% of residents aged 16 to 64; across the borough: 5.0%). That counts people claiming benefits because they are unemployed, rounded to 5.

A neighbourhood here is a census “lower layer super output area” of about 1,500 people, placed in the ward that holds most of its postcodes. Deprivation ranks every neighbourhood in England on income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment. Sources: Census 2021, Office for National Statistics (tables TS001, TS007 and TS054, via Nomis); English Indices of Deprivation 2025, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government; ONS Postcode Directory (neighbourhoods placed in wards); all under the Open Government Licence v3.0; Mid-year population estimates, Office for National Statistics, via Nomis (Open Government Licence v3.0), read 2026-10-12; Claimant count, Office for National Statistics and the Department for Work and Pensions, via Nomis (Open Government Licence v3.0).

Every ward's figures side by side, with the borough's: the wards in figures · download them as a spreadsheet (CSV), for a funding bid or a report (each column names its year; the sources are above).

Council tax bands in this ward

About 2,560 homes, by the band the Valuation Office Agency gives them, at 31 March 2026.

BandHomesShare hereShare across Hastings
Band A75029%33%
Band B96038%28%
Band C47018%18%
Band D26010%13%
Band E1004%5%
Band F201%2%
Band G10under 1%under 1%
Band H00%under 1%

Counts are the VOA's, rounded to the nearest 10, so they don't always add up; a band with fewer than five homes in a neighbourhood is left out. Each census neighbourhood (about 1,500 people) is counted whole in the ward that holds most of its postcodes, so a ward's figures are close, not exact. 18 of the 53 neighbourhoods cross a ward boundary. What each band pays: council tax, band by band. Source: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties (CTSOP1.1), Open Government Licence v3.0.

The record in full

All of Wishing Tree's streets and everything the record holds about them, newest first.

Show every street and record
46 documents about its streets
34 events recorded
0 streets on the record

Streets on the record in this ward

12 streets in this ward that the record names. Every street has its own page and feed.

Every street in Wishing Tree, A–Z (62)

On the record in this ward

What we hold about this ward's streets, newest first. Each entry also appears on its own street's page, with more context.

Draft Local Plan Regulation 19 stage

Consultation that mentions Battle Road, closes 12 Nov 2026. Source document ↗ not checked

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

Committee report that mentions Theaklen Drive, Mon 9 Nov 2026, Cabinet. Source document ↗ not checked

HS/PR/26/00618 — Site to West of 22 Theaklen Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9AZ

Planning application for a site on Theaklen Drive, Fri 23 Oct 2026, Planning. The application’s page · Source document ↗

Decision on HS/FA/26/00275 — 261 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7AN

Planning decision for a site on Battle Road, Mon 19 Oct 2026, Planning. The application’s page · Source document ↗

HS/FA/26/00516 — 253 Battle Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7AN

Planning application for a site on Battle Road, Tue 6 Oct 2026, Planning. The application’s page · Source document ↗

Decision on HS/PR/26/00477 — Bannatynes Health Club, Battle Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8EZ

Planning decision for a site on Battle Road, Mon 5 Oct 2026, Planning. The application’s page · Source document ↗

HS/FA/26/00593 — 358A Battle Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7BB

Planning application for a site on Battle Road, Thu 1 Oct 2026, Planning. The application’s page · Source document ↗

Appendix 1 Draft Local Plan - Pre Submission (Regulation 19) September 2026

Committee report that mentions Battle Road, Stonehouse Drive, Wed 23 Sep 2026, Full Council. Source document ↗ not checked

Council Pre-Submission Local Plan Regulation 19 Report

Committee report that mentions Stonehouse Drive, Wed 23 Sep 2026, Full Council. Source document ↗ not checked

Decision on HS/NM/26/00499 — 358A Battle Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7BB

Planning decision for a site on Battle Road, Mon 21 Sep 2026, Planning. The application’s page · Source document ↗

HS/FA/26/00530 — Philips House, Drury Lane, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9BA

Planning application for a site on Drury Lane, Tue 15 Sep 2026, Planning. The application’s page · Source document ↗

HS/AA/26/00532 — Land adj Stonehouse Drive Recycling Point, Stonehouse Drive, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 9DJ

Planning application for a site on Stonehouse Drive, Tue 15 Sep 2026, Planning. The application’s page · Source document ↗

…and 34 more. Each of the ward's street pages has its full list.

Street names and locations from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors.