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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.
8,783 approved · 1,277 refused · 750 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
27 Elphinstone Road, Hastings, TN34 2EG
Received 20 Dec 2023126 St Helens Road, Hastings, TN34 2EL
Received 20 Dec 202340 Fernside Avenue, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0UU
Received 20 Dec 20231A Essenden Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0NN
Received 20 Dec 2023Flat 9, Lamorna Court, 32 De Cham Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6JA
Received 20 Dec 2023Site of, 138 Braybrooke Road, Hastings, TN34 1TH
Received 21 Dec 20231 Shining Cliff, Hastings, TN34 2GT
Received 21 Dec 2023Garages adjacent 2, Middle Road, Hastings, TN35 5DL
Received 21 Dec 20232 Shirley Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7JW
Received 22 Dec 20235 Maze Hill, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0BA
Received 22 Dec 202313 Charles Road West, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0RT
Received 22 Dec 20235 High Street, Hastings, TN34 3EY
Received 28 Dec 2023Land North of 31, Fern Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0UJ
Received 29 Dec 202354 Springfield Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0TZ
Received 1 Jan 202451 Truman Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7TH
Received 18 Dec 2023Rear of Uffington, 31 Charles Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0QB
Received 19 Dec 2023Adams and Jarrett, 6-18 Norman Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6NH
Received 21 Dec 20231 Croft Terrace, Hastings, TN34 3HG
Received 4 Jan 202448 Collinswood Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0NX
Received 4 Jan 202430 The Green, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0SX
Received 5 Jan 20242 Marianne House, 77 Old London Road, Hastings, TN35 5PQ
Received 29 Dec 2023All Souls Church, Berlin Road, Hastings, TN35 5JB
Received 5 Jan 20241 Mercatoria Place, Mercatoria, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0DF
Received 8 Jan 2024103A Milward Road, Hastings, TN34 3RS
Received 9 Jan 2024Records 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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