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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.
8,663 approved · 1,263 refused · 736 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Boscobel Hall, 34 Boscobel Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0LX
Received 21 Apr 20232 Walton Croft, Victoria Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6ER
Received 24 Apr 202345 Gleneagles Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0HU
Received 24 Apr 2023Restaurant and Premises, 15A-18A East Parade, Hastings, TN34 3AL
Received 24 Apr 2023Restaurant and Premises, 15A-18A East Parade, Hastings, TN34 3AL
Received 24 Apr 202318 Edwin Road, Hastings, TN35 5JT
Received 24 Apr 2023Land Adjacent, 74 Kenilworth Road, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 24 Apr 202330 Collinswood Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0NU
Received 24 Apr 2023Land east of, 16-24 Ironlatch Avenue, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 24 Apr 2023Car Park, Cornwallis Street, Hastings
Received 24 Apr 2023103 Pevensey Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0LR
Received 25 Apr 202395 & 96 All Saints Street, Hastings, TN34 3BE
Received 25 Apr 2023Bornholm, Campkin Gardens, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7FD
Received 25 Apr 2023Millifont Guest House, 8-9 Cambridge Gardens, Hastings, TN34 1EH
Received 26 Apr 20238 King Edward Close, Hastings, TN34 2NP
Received 26 Apr 2023Electricity Sub Station, The Roundel, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7HE
Received 26 Apr 2023The Tower Hotel, (Public House and Premises), 251 London Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6NB
Received 26 Apr 202320 Cockcrow Wood, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7HW
Received 26 Apr 202344 Clifton Road, Hastings, TN35 5AN
Received 27 Apr 2023Site of former 59, High Street, Hastings, TN34 3EN
Received 17 Apr 2023His Place Church, Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HL
Received 27 Apr 202355 Percy Road, Hastings, TN35 5AR
Received 28 Apr 2023Garages to the rear of 270, St Helens Road, Hastings, TN34 2NF
Received 28 Apr 2023East Hill House, 13 Tackleway, Hastings, TN34 3DE
Received 1 May 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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