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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.
9,734 approved · 1,402 refused · 805 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Jul 2003 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
100 & 100A High Street, Hastings, TN34 3ES
Received 7 Aug 20251 Alma Villas, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6QU
Received 25 Jul 2025Queen Anne Statue, Holmhurst St Mary, The Ridge, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7PT
Received 8 Aug 202513 Courthouse Street, Hastings, TN34 3AU
Received 8 Aug 202513 Courthouse Street, Hastings, TN34 3AU
Received 8 Aug 2025Former Car Park, Cornwallis Street, Hastings
Received 8 Aug 20252 Shirley Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7JW
Received 1 Aug 202510 Linton Crescent, Hastings, TN34 1TJ
Received 12 Aug 202532 Whitefriars Road, Hastings, TN34 3JY
Received 11 Aug 202538 Eversfield Place(Basement And Ground Floor Maisonette), St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6DB
Received 12 Aug 2025Offices and Premises, 76-78 Bohemia Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6RN
Received 12 Aug 202588 Athelstan Road, Hastings, TN35 5JE
Received 13 Aug 2025120 Marina, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0BN
Received 13 Aug 2025Land adjacent 2 Filsham Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0AU
Received 13 Aug 202519 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1QY
Received 13 Aug 2025Hastings Maintenance Depot, Waterworks Road, Hastings, TN34 1RT
Received 4 Aug 2025Land at and South of Holmhurst St Mary, The Ridge, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 14 Aug 2025Corner Plot, Land at Enviro21 Park, Queensway Avenue South, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9AG
Received 15 Aug 2025Corner Plot Enviro21 Park, Queensway Avenue South, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9AG
Received 15 Aug 2025Hill House, 13 Hill Street, Hastings, TN34 3HU
Received 15 Aug 202513 Courthouse Street, Hastings, TN34 3AU
Received 15 Aug 2025Land to the Rear of 419 to 447 Bexhill Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8AR
Received 18 Aug 202563 Priory Avenue, Hastings, TN34 1UH
Received 18 Aug 20255 Sandringham Heights, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9UA
Received 8 Aug 2025Records 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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