The railway first came to Hastings in 1851. A V-shape station building was originally built allow two competing railway companies to operate with 2 platforms each. This building was replaced with a neo-Georgian style building in 1931, which was subsequently replaced in 2004 with a glass station building.



Hastings is about 1h 45min journey to central London via the Hastings Line.

The Hastings Station Plaza is a new development built on the former site of the station goods yard, situated next to Hastings station.



The site includes a 22,000 sq ft University building (opened January 2010), NHS health centre (May 2010) and new apartments (awaiting construction).



NHS Hastings and Rother invested over £16 million in the construction of the Station Plaza Health Centre.

Lacuna Place is a new development between Havelock Road and Priory Street, completed in 2009. It offers 78,000 sq ft of Grade A office and 6,000 sq ft of ground floor retail space on Havelock Road. There is secure basement parking below access off Priory Street.

Leading off the roundabout and under an imposed railway bridge at the North end, Queen's road is a long road of shops and houses in Hastings CBD.



At the Northern end are mixture of two and three storey Victorian terraces, some houses (mostly converted to flats) and some shops with flats above. Entrances to Morrisons supermarket and fuel station to the West.



To the West side South of the junction of South Terrace, the 1990's Priory Meadow Shopping Centre lines a large section of the West side of the road. The final section is a pedestrianised area.

Built on the site of the Priory Meadow cricket ground, the Priory Meadow Shopping centre was opened in 1997 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.



It is formed by a covered mall of shops and stalls, and an open square. The main building has five distinct round towers, four along Queens Road side.



In the centre is Queen's Square, with a statue of a batsman represents the site's history.

Most of the towns estate agents can be found on Havelock Road. There is also a taxi rank.

A part pedestrianised road leading from the CBD. The town's main post office is found here, along with pubs, clubs, and a few smaller shops.



Past the pedestrianised area the road becomes the A21 road, leading out of Hastings.

A large section of the lower part of this road is dwarfed by the rear of the Priory Meadow Shopping Centre, which was built on former cricket grounds. A goods entrance, and entrance to a multi storey car park are found to the South side, and a row Victorian terrace with a pub and takeaways found to the North side. Leading away from the centre and uphill are the ends of terraced streets of houses, crossing over the railway, to end at a cross roads with Braybrooke Road and Priory Avenue.

In Hastings CBD, a pedestrianised road of shops, cafés and banks.

One of the tallest buildings in Hastings, the eight storey tower block of offices at the corner of Cornwallis Terrace and Havelock road is due to be demolished, along with 2-7 Havelock Road and 31 to 35 Priory Road, making way for modern offices, shops and car parking.



See planning application Link

Situated on Cambridge Road just on the outskirts of the town centre, this derelict former newspaper building has lain derelict for many years. It was built in 1924.

University Centre Hastings, opened in 2003 and offers University of Brighton degrees in a range of subjects including Applied Social Science, Business, Computing, Media, English Literature, Community History, Education, Environmental Biology and Sociology.

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