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.
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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.
7,826 approved · 1,162 refused · 656 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Apr 2013 to 2 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 to the rear of 76 Park Avenue, (garden of1 The Gables, Hillside Road) Hastings, TN34 2JU
Received 7 Mar 2019Land Adjacent 7 - 21, The Croft, Hastings
Received 19 Feb 201911 Pilgrims Way, Hastings, TN34 2LF
Received 1 Mar 2019Flat 1, 46 St Helens Park Road, Hastings, TN34 2DN
Received 11 Mar 201927 Devonshire Road, Hastings, TN34 1NF
Received 12 Mar 201941 Kings Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6DX
Received 6 Mar 2019Castleham ATE, Collett Close, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, TN38 9NE
Received 11 Mar 20192 Belvedere Park, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0WE
Received 11 Mar 201962 Filsham Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0PA
Received 5 Mar 20191 Rotherfield Avenue, Hastings, TN34 3PA
Received 12 Mar 2019Garages rear of 111 London Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6AU
Received 12 Mar 2019Third Floor Flat, 44 Magdalen Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6EU
Received 12 Mar 2019Store 1, Bottle Alley, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 12 Mar 201933 Fletcher Avenue, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7QU
Received 13 Mar 201917 William Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8DE
Received 12 Mar 2019Woodside, 107 Hoads Wood Road, Hastings, TN34 2BB
Received 12 Mar 2019459 Bexhill Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8AR
Received 13 Mar 2019145 Edmund Road, Hastings, TN35 5LG
Received 8 Mar 201956 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1RE
Received 14 Mar 2019Flat 2, 19 Grosvenor Crescent, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0AA
Received 11 Mar 2019Land adjacent to No.74 Kenilworth Road, St Leonards-On-Sea, TN38 0JL
Received 12 Mar 2019Land adjacent to No.74 Kenilworth Road, St Leonards-On-Sea, TN38 0JL
Received 12 Mar 2019105 Hollington Old Lane, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9DP
Received 12 Mar 201917-18 Kings Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6DU
Received 13 Mar 2019Records 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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