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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.
8,089 approved · 1,188 refused · 687 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 24 Apr 2013 to 2 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Conqueror Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8DD
Received 13 Jul 202050 St Marys Terrace, Hastings, TN34 3LR
Received 13 Jul 2020The Royal Victoria Hotel, 45 Marina, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0BD
Received 14 Jul 202011 Fairlight Road, Hastings, TN35 5ED
Received 14 Jul 202017 Offa Road, Hastings, TN35 5HR
Received 14 Jul 20204 Mountbatten Close, Hastings, TN35 4LE
Received 15 Jul 20208 Brittany Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0RA
Received 15 Jul 202063 All Saints Street, Hastings, TN34 3BN
Received 16 Jul 2020Basement Shop and Premises, 10 Cambridge Road, Hastings, TN34 1DJ
Received 6 Jul 2020Land rear of, 28-42 Barley Lane, Hastings
Received 15 Jul 20209 Elphinstone Gardens, Hastings, TN34 2BW
Received 17 Jul 2020201 St Helens Road, Hastings, TN34 2EA
Received 17 Jul 2020Shop and Premises, 72 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1RL
Received 17 Jul 2020Spire Sussex Hospital, The Ridge, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7RD
Received 17 Jul 2020Vehicle Repair Workshop adjacent 8, The Ridge, Hastings, TN34 2AA
Received 17 Jul 2020351 The Ridge, Hastings, TN34 2RA
Received 20 Jul 202087 Lower Park Road, Hastings, TN34 2LE
Received 21 Jul 2020422 The Ridge, Hastings, TN34 2RR
Received 21 Jul 2020The Conquerors March, Stonestile Lane, Hastings, TN35 4BW
Received 21 Jul 2020The Tabernacle Evangelical Church, Cambridge Road, Hastings, TN34 1DJ
Received 21 Jul 202079 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1RL
Received 21 Jul 2020125 Marina, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0BN
Received 21 Jul 2020Bulverhythe Recreation Ground, Bexhill Road, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 17 Jul 202071 Linley Drive, Hastings, TN34 2DD
Received 22 Jul 2020Records 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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