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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.
8,489 approved · 1,241 refused · 717 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Jan 2010 to 2 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
8 Cooden Ledge, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8ET
Received 31 Mar 2022Boscobel Hall, 34 Boscobel Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0LX
Received 31 Mar 2022Site of Mount Pleasant Hospital, 7 Frederick Road, Hastings, TN35 5AA
Received 31 Mar 20224 Byways, Hillside Road, Hastings, TN34 2QX
Received 31 Mar 2022Fourth Floor Flat, 55 Warrior Square, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6BG
Received 1 Apr 2022205 Priory Road, Hastings, TN34 3JB
Received 1 Apr 2022Radio Mast (ORANGE TQ8 82500 10300),Halton Reservior, Priory Road, Hastings
Received 5 Apr 2022Land to the rear of 11 Linton Road, Hastings, TN34 1TN
Received 5 Apr 2022Flat C, Lingold House, 45 Havelock Road, Hastings, TN34 1BE
Received 5 Apr 202223 Hollington Park Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0SE
Received 5 Apr 202223 George Street, Hastings, TN34 3EG
Received 1 Apr 2022Touchdown, 162 Old Roar Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7HH
Received 5 Apr 202228 Essenden Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0NW
Received 6 Apr 202247 Ashford Way, Hastings, TN34 2HG
Received 6 Apr 2022121 Pevensey Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0LZ
Received 6 Apr 2022Land Adjacent to 1 Westfield Lane, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7NE
Received 6 Apr 2022McDonalds Restaurants Ltd, 5 John Macadam Way, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7SQ
Received 5 Apr 202222-26 Norman Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6NH
Received 5 Apr 2022Flats 3 & 4, 22 Warrior Gardens, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6EB
Received 5 Apr 202216 Truman Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7TH
Received 7 Apr 202232 Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7DG
Received 7 Apr 202213 Mount Pleasant Crescent, Hastings, TN34 3SG
Received 8 Apr 202243 Oxford Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9ER
Received 8 Apr 20226 Oxley Close, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0SZ
Received 8 Apr 2022Records 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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