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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.
8,650 approved · 1,262 refused · 735 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 26 Jan 2010 to 2 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Ashdown House, Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7PB
Received 8 Mar 20232 Burdett Place, Hastings, TN34 3ED
Received 7 Mar 20232 Burdett Place, Hastings, TN34 3ED
Received 7 Mar 2023Land rear of Chalet 81 and to the rear of Sussex Edwardian Hotel High Beech Chalet Park, Eisenhower Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7BS
Received 8 Mar 2023Fluid, Nightclub and Premises, 20 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HL
Received 8 Mar 2023Land East of 46 Conqueror Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8DD
Received 9 Mar 2023Land Adjacent 24, Broomgrove Road, Hastings
Received 9 Mar 2023148 Park View, Hastings, TN34 2PE
Received 9 Mar 2023Land Adjacent, 777 The Ridge, (East of Harrow Lane), St Leonards-on-sea
Received 9 Mar 202369 London Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6AR
Received 9 Mar 2023Land Adjacent 24, Broomgrove Road, Hastings
Received 10 Mar 202318 Plynlimmon Road, Hastings, TN34 3LT
Received 10 Mar 2023St Leonards Lodge, Maze Hill, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0HW
Received 10 Mar 2023Former Factory Site, Fellows Road, Hastings, TN34 3TY
Received 10 Mar 2023Land at and South of Holmhurst St Mary, The Ridge, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 13 Mar 2023Land at and South of Holmhurst St Mary, The Ridge, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 13 Mar 2023Hastings Country Park, Fairlight Road, Hastings (Rear of Former Hastings Country Park Visitor Centre)
Received 14 Mar 2023Flat 5, 6 Markwick Terrace, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0RE
Received 14 Mar 2023Flat 5, 6 Markwick Terrace, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0RE
Received 14 Mar 2023Land at and South of Holmhurst St Mary, The Ridge, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 15 Mar 202332 Wellington Square, Hastings, TN34 1PN
Received 15 Mar 2023Jempsons Bakers Ltd, 18-21 Wellington Place, Hastings, TN34 1NY
Received 15 Mar 2023Jempsons Bakers Ltd, 18-21 Wellington Place, Hastings, TN34 1NY
Received 15 Mar 2023242 St Helens Road,(Land adjacent), Hastings, TN34 2NE
Received 16 Mar 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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