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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 Hastings Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
10,453 approved · 1,521 refused · 834 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Jul 2003 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
5 Churchill Avenue, Hastings, TN35 4LD
Received 24 Oct 201125 Western Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6DG
Received 24 Oct 20111A St Marys Road, Hastings, TN34 3LN
Received 25 Oct 2011242 Old London Road, Hastings, TN35 5LT
Received 25 Oct 201189 Bohemia Road, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 24 Oct 20116 Battle Crescent, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7AW
Received 25 Oct 201175 Amherst Road, Hastings, TN34 1TX
Received 25 Oct 2011Mount Pleasant Hotel, 88 Mount Pleasant Road, Hastings, TN34 3SN
Received 26 Oct 201152 Kings Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6DY
Received 26 Oct 2011188 Harold Road, Hastings, TN35 5NG
Received 26 Oct 2011259 St Helens Road, Hastings, TN34 2NF
Received 27 Oct 2011Land Adjacent 240, Old London Road, Hastings, TN34 3NS
Received 27 Oct 201130 Tilekiln Lane, Hastings, TN35 5EN
Received 24 Oct 2011Land Adjacent To And Rear Of 73, Filsham Road, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 26 Oct 2011Land adjacent to St Dominics Nursing Home, 71 Filsham Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0PG
Received 26 Oct 20112 De Chardin Drive, Hastings, TN34 2UD
Received 28 Oct 201115 Boscobel Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0LU
Received 31 Oct 201123 Courthouse Street, Hastings, TN34 3AU
Received 31 Oct 20111 Benenden Rise, Hastings, TN34 2HN
Received 28 Oct 201127 Fearon Road, Hastings, TN34 2DL
Received 31 Oct 2011Former Nursery Site, Redgeland Rise, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9JT
Received 1 Nov 201130-32 London Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6AN
Received 2 Nov 2011258 Elphinstone Road, Hastings, TN34 2AG
Received 2 Nov 201135 All Saints Street, Hastings, TN34 3BJ
Received 2 Nov 2011Records 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 Hastings 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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