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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.
9,751 approved · 1,407 refused · 805 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1 Elphinstone Avenue, Hastings, TN34 2DJ
Received 20 Aug 20253 Shepherd Court, 1 Shepherd Street, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0ET
Received 20 Aug 202552A Burry Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6QZ
Received 20 Aug 2025Flat 1, 58 George Street, Hastings, TN34 3EE
Received 20 Aug 2025Flat 1, 58 George Street, Hastings, TN34 3EE
Received 20 Aug 2025463 Old London Road, Hastings, TN35 5BP
Received 21 Aug 20258 Cockcrow Wood, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7HW
Received 21 Aug 202551 Albany Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0LJ
Received 22 Aug 2025Car Wash, 27 Rye Road, Hastings, TN35 5DA
Received 27 Aug 202510 Maplehurst Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7NA
Received 27 Aug 202540 Beauport Home Farm Close, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7BW
Received 14 Aug 2025Biffa Municipal Ltd, Bulverhythe Depot, Bulverhythe Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8AF
Received 27 Aug 202517 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HL
Received 27 Aug 202524 Beecham Place, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9BP
Received 28 Aug 202521 White Rock, Hastings, TN34 1JY
Received 28 Aug 2025Zeus Gym and Shop, Theaklen Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9AZ
Received 28 Aug 2025Pembroke Court, 11 Woodland Vale Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6JJ
Received 29 Aug 2025Marianne House, 77 Old London Road, Hastings, TN35 5PQ
Received 29 Aug 2025Marianne House, 77 Old London Road, Hastings, TN35 5PQ
Received 29 Aug 2025Mellowdown, 160 Old Roar Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7HH
Received 1 Sept 202548 Boscobel Road North, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0NZ
Received 1 Sept 202548 Collinswood Drive, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0NX
Received 1 Sept 202517-18 High Street, Hastings, TN34 3EY
Received 2 Sept 202591 Winterbourne Close, Hastings, TN34 1XQ
Received 27 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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