Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Hartlepool Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
2 approved · 1 refused · 112 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Dec 2004 to 17 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 22 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
LAND EAST OFBLUEBELL WAY ROUNDABOUT MERLIN WAYHARTLEPOOLHARTLEPOOL
Received 11 Nov 2005Hole HouseEmbletonHartlepool
Received 10 Nov 2005107 RABY ROADHARTLEPOOLTS24 8DT
Received 10 Nov 2005ASDA MARINA WAYHARTLEPOOLTS24 0XR
Received 4 Nov 2005445 CATCOTE ROADHARTLEPOOLTS25 2RA
Received 10 Nov 200546 MARDALE AVENUEHARTLEPOOLTS25 3DS
Received 11 Nov 200515 ROXBY CLOSEHARTLEPOOLTS25 2AL
Received 11 Nov 200570 DUNBAR ROADHARTLEPOOLTS25 5DX
Received 11 Nov 2005Unit 8 Belle Business Park Greatham StreetHartlepool
Received 11 Nov 200549 MIDDLETON GRANGE SHOPPING CENTREHARTLEPOOL
Received 14 Nov 200593 YORK ROADHARTLEPOOLTS26 8AD
Received 11 Nov 200535 37MIERS AVENUEHARTLEPOOLTS24 9HH
Received 15 Nov 2005Adjoining Greatham Primary SchoolEgerton TerraceGreathamHartlepool
Received 14 Nov 2005PEUGOT WILLIAMSON BRENDA ROADHARTLEPOOL
Received 15 Nov 200515 LINNET ROADHARTLEPOOLTS26 0SF
Received 16 Nov 200528 WHITBY STREETHARTLEPOOLTS24 7AD
Received 16 Nov 20056 JOHN HOWE GARDENSHARTLEPOOLTS24 9NQ
Received 23 Nov 200529 WEST PARKHARTLEPOOLTS26 0DB
Received 23 Nov 200520 DEACON GARDENSHARTLEPOOLTS25 1UU
Received 23 Nov 200518 GRETA AVENUEHARTLEPOOLTS25 5LF
Received 15 Nov 20058 GOLDFINCH ROADHARTLEPOOLTS26 0SN
Received 16 Nov 2005GLENDALOUGH PARK AVENUEHARTLEPOOLTS26 0DZ
Received 15 Nov 2005JESMOND GRANGE ROADHARTLEPOOLTS26 0DY
Received 15 Nov 2005PARK HOUSE WEST ROWHARTLEPOOLTS25 2HW
Received 15 Nov 2005Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Hartlepool Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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