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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.
10,323 approved · 1,500 refused · 830 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 11 Jul 2003 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Carisbrooke Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0JS
Received 17 Sept 2026Flat 4, 22 Pevensey Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0LF
Received 17 Sept 202621 London Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6AJ
Received 17 Sept 202633 Ashburnham Road, Hastings, TN35 5JN
Received 17 Sept 2026Unit 1, Enviro21 Park, Queensway Avenue South, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9AG
Received 17 Sept 2026Saxon Mount School, Edinburgh Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8HH
Received 17 Sept 2026135 All Saints Street, Hastings, TN34 3BG
Received 17 Sept 20268 Cambridge Road, Hastings, TN34 1DJ
Received 17 Sept 20266 Cambridge Road, Hastings, TN34 1DJ
Received 17 Sept 202624 Fairlight Avenue, Hastings, TN35 5HS
Received 18 Sept 202648 Duke Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7DN
Received 18 Sept 202631 Reedswood Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8DW
Received 21 Sept 202633 Alma Villas, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6QU
Received 21 Sept 202611 Downs Road, Hastings, TN34 2DX
Received 22 Sept 2026East Sussex College Hastings, Parker Road, Hastings, TN34 3SU
Received 23 Sept 2026Land Rear of, 461-467 Bexhill Road, St Leonards-on-sea
Received 23 Sept 202665 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1RE
Received 23 Sept 202636 Percy Road, Hastings, TN35 5AR
Received 24 Sept 202644 Beaufort Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6PL
Received 24 Sept 2026Aldi, Rye Road, Hastings, TN35 5DG
Received 24 Sept 202647 Caves Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0BY
Received 25 Sept 2026370 Bexhill Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8AS
Received 25 Sept 202654 Springfield Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0TZ
Received 29 Sept 20262 Queens Road, Hastings, TN34 1QP
Received 29 Sept 2026Records 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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