Hastings Borough Council

Bins, council tax and planning, and what the council covers

Hastings Borough Council is the district, borough or city council for Hastings. It collects bins and council tax, and decides planning applications. Schools, roads and social care here are run by the county council, East Sussex. ONS places 2,030 postcodes in use in Hastings, in 4 postcode districts of the TN postcode area.

84% of homes and businesses in Hastings can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 1,779 homes and businesses in Hastings in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
12
Postcodes in use
2,030
Postcode districts
4
Towns and villages
1

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Its website

Hastings Borough Council

hastings.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Hastings Borough Council's own website

Each link goes straight to the page on the council's own website for that task. We opened every one on 14 October 2026.

Bins and recycling

Council tax

Planning and building

Housing

Roads and parking

Report a problem

Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for Hastings Borough Council. GOV.UK lists 18. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 6 pages had gone (missing, or moved to a page about something else). We left those out rather than send you to a page we could not see. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in Hastings?

Across Hastings, 84% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 84% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre84% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)84% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)Over 99% can get it

For one street, look up its postcode: each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How much is council tax in Hastings?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,677 a year

Every other band is a fixed share of Band D, set in law. Band A is two thirds of it; band H is twice it.

BandA year
Band A£1,784
Band B£2,082
Band C£2,379
Band D£2,677
Band E£3,271
Band F£3,866
Band G£4,461
Band H£5,353

Band D is the average across the area, including the county council, police, fire and combined authority charges, and parish or town council charges, so a home's own bill can be a little different. Bands other than D are worked out by us from Band D and rounded to the pound. A home's bill also takes off any discount, such as 25% for one adult living alone.

Check one home's band on GOV.UK

Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 10, published 25 March 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How many homes in Hastings are at risk of flooding?

Across Hastings, the Environment Agency puts 1,779 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 141 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 141 postcodes High: 1,698Medium: 81Low: 255Very low: 771

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them. It leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Surface water

In Hastings the Environment Agency counts 8,437 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (16.4% of all its properties), 2,059 at medium risk (4%) and 4,650 at low risk (9%). Surface water is rain that cannot drain away fast enough.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Surface Water, properties at risk by local authority, version 2025-09, listed 18 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Schools, roads and care: East Sussex

Hastings has two councils. The county council, East Sussex, runs schools, roads, social care and libraries here.

Everything East Sussex County Council does

Postcode districts with postcodes in Hastings

Counted from the ONS Postcode Directory. A postcode district is drawn for sorting post, so many cross a council's edge.

Its postcode area

TN postcode area: Tunbridge Wells, postcodes in use here:2,030 of 23,179

Beside each area: how many of its postcodes in use are in Hastings.

Towns and villages

Hastings

Is an address in Hastings?

A council's edge does not follow postcodes exactly. Check the postcode.

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What Hastings covers: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Its name, website and own pages: GOV.UK, Local authority services, downloaded 14 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0; every link opened on 14 October 2026. See all our data sources

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