The Queens Platinum Jubilee and events

Later this year, the country will enjoy a four-day bank holiday to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with an extensive programme of public events. The traditional late May bank holiday weekend has been moved to Thursday 2 June, with an additional bank holiday on Friday 3 June to create a four-day long weekend.

The Platinum Jubilee website includes useful related resources, an interactive map, for people and organisations to contribute to and others to search for information on activities taking place near to them. Please explore the website and submit events and activities to be included on the map.

Beacon lighting

There is a long tradition of celebrating Royal Jubilees, Weddings and Coronations with the lighting of beacons. As part of The Platinum Jubilee Beacons event across the UK on 2 June the Hastings beacon on the East Hill will be lit at 9.45pm.

Street parties

Residents may wish to hold a street party with their neighbours. The Government have updated street parties guidance on how to organise a street party.

Street party road closure

If you wish to hold a street party and close the road to any traffic you will need to apply for a road closure in Hastings. We have waived the normal road closure fee of £75 to enable street parties to go ahead as part of the jubilee events.

Risk assessment

A risk assessment is careful check of what is likely to cause harm to people. Doing this means you can weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions. Or, if you need to include more measures to ensure risks to people's safety are minimised at your street party.

To ensure the event is run safely we do recommend that you carry out a basic risk assessment and you can use this basic risk assessment template to help you. This will ensure that you and the other organisers have thought about things that might cause harm at your street party.

Temporary event notice

If you are planning to sell alcohol at a street party you will need to apply for a temporary events notice a minimum of 10 working days before the date of the event.

Other jubilee events

If you wish to hold any larger or public events for the jubilee please see the information and guidance for this on our events planning section.