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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.
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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Hastings Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
11,505 approved · 1,728 refused · 900 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Jul 2003 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Adjacent To, 7 Ganton Place, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0XW
Received 2 Oct 2012Wishing Tree Public House, 63 Wishing Tree Road North, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9LJ
Received 2 Oct 2012Unit A, Brook Way, Hastings, TN35 4NN
Received 28 Sept 201249 St Marys Terrace, Hastings, TN34 3LR
Received 2 Oct 2012East Sussex Fire Brigade Fire Station, The Ridge, Hastings
Received 28 Sept 2012219 Harley Shute Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9JJ
Received 14 Sept 2012Congregational Church, London Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6AN
Received 1 Oct 2012Helenswood Lower School, The Ridge, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7PS
Received 1 Oct 201232 Normandy Road, Hastings, TN34 2ND
Received 2 Oct 201216 Birch Way, Hastings, TN34 2JZ
Received 3 Oct 2012124 Rye Road, Hastings, TN35 5DB
Received 3 Oct 2012Land rear of 57, Ochiltree Road, Hastings
Received 4 Oct 201225-27 Castleham Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9NS
Received 5 Oct 2012The Moreton Centre, Boscobel Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0LX
Received 5 Oct 201210 Villa Road, Formally The Old Rectory, St Margarets Terrace, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6EJ
Received 4 Oct 2012Plastica, 12 Napier Road, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 5 Oct 201228-29 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1QY
Received 5 Oct 2012Flat 1, 26 The Green, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0SU
Received 5 Oct 2012Alexanders Hotel, 2 Carlisle Parade, Hastings, TN34 1JG
Received 8 Oct 2012Queensway North, Queensway, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 9 Oct 2012Basement right, 40A Carisbrooke Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0JN
Received 8 Oct 2012101 Castle Hill Road, Hastings
Received 8 Oct 2012Site of former 2 to 20 evens, Fellows Road, Hastings, TN34 3TY
Received 8 Oct 2012Flat 3, 49 Kenilworth Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0JL
Received 9 Oct 2012Records 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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