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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.
8,742 approved · 1,267 refused · 748 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land adjacent 26, St Margarets Road, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 4 Sept 202361 Churchill Avenue, Hastings, TN35 4LD
Received 4 Sept 20238 Oakwood Close, Hastings, TN34 2JF
Received 4 Sept 202338 Hughenden Court, Mount Pleasant Road, Hastings, TN34 3ST
Received 4 Sept 2023114 St Helens Road and Land to the rear of 116/117 St Helens Road, Hastings, TN34 2EL
Received 5 Sept 2023Uffington, Charles Road, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 24 Aug 2023Top Flat (Second Floor And Third Floor), 67 Norman Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0EG
Received 5 Sept 2023Ark Alexandra Academy William Parker Campus, Park Avenue, Hastings, TN34 2PG
Received 1 Sept 2023Land opposite, 13-17 Rock-a-Nore Road, (Beach between the Net & Tackle Shops, south of Rock-a-Nore Road), Hastings
Received 5 Sept 20235 High Street, Hastings, TN34 3EY
Received 7 Sept 202347 Elphinstone Avenue, Hastings, TN34 2DJ
Received 7 Sept 2023Flat 2, 6 Cornwallis Terrace, Hastings, TN34 1EB
Received 8 Sept 202350 Bohemia Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6RQ
Received 8 Sept 20236 St Matthews Gardens, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0TS
Received 8 Sept 2023125 Ashburnham Road, Hastings, TN35 5JH
Received 11 Sept 2023Land East Of, Burgess Road, Hastings
Received 11 Sept 202311 Moscow Road, Hastings, TN35 5LP
Received 12 Sept 20236 Park Drive, Hastings, TN34 2PR
Received 13 Sept 2023Grosvenor House Residential Care Home, 11-14 Grosvenor Gardens, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0AE
Received 6 Sept 2023The Stade Family Amusement Park, The Stade, Hastings, TN34 3AR
Received 12 Sept 20231 Barnfield Close, Hastings, TN34 1TS
Received 5 Sept 2023Land East Of, Burgess Road, Hastings
Received 13 Sept 2023Flat 5, 6 Markwick Terrace, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0RE
Received 13 Sept 2023Millifont Guest House, 8-9 Cambridge Gardens, Hastings, TN34 1EH
Received 14 Sept 2023Records 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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