Open Hastings / Data downloads
Data downloads
Everything on this site as data you can open, check and re-use. If you're writing about Hastings, take the dataset. You don't need to ask, and you don't have to credit us, though we'd like it if you did.
The datasets
Each one is the same data the site is built from, not an export of a subset.
Grants into Hastings
Published grants recorded against Hastings by their funder, 2019 onwards. Awarded is not the same as spent, and these totals are a minimum, not the full picture.
Public contracts
Contract notices from Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. match_rule states why each row counts: a Hastings buyer (buyer_borough), the county council (buyer_county — whole-county, never quote as Hastings spending), a stated borough delivery postcode (delivery_ward), or an organisation based in the borough (buyer_ward / supplier_ward — where the work happens is not stated on those notices). Coverage starts when collection began, not when the services did.
Planning applications
Applications validated by Hastings Borough Council, from its weekly lists. Site addresses only, with no applicant, agent or objector details.
Planning decisions issued
Applications the council issued a decision on, from its decided weekly lists. The decision column is the council's own wording from the application's summary tab; where empty, the outcome is on the application file at the source URL. Week_ending is the decided list's week, the precision the list states.
Council documents
Every committee paper, consultation and application on the record, with its source link.
What happened (events)
Every event derived from the record: applications validated, grants awarded, consultations opened and closed, each with its modality, evidence link and participants. An event says what a document records, not what happened in the world.
Who represents Hastings
Borough councillors by ward and county councillors by division, from each council's own member register. Public role facts only, with no contact details; seats holds committee seats (county) or the council's stated key posts (borough). The source URL is the council's page for each member.
Places and organisations
The entity graph: streets, wards, organisations and committees, with how many records mention each.
Election results
Every candidate's result in every election Hastings Borough Council has published as returning officer, 2002 onwards: borough wards and by-elections, county divisions, the Hastings and Rye seat, the police and crime commissioner. Names, parties and votes are the council's own words and figures; elected is 1 for the winner(s).
Hastings Borough Council supplier payments
Every payment over £250 the council has published in its monthly files since 2018, one row per line, with the council's own directorate, service area, account and category words. An empty supplier is a payee the council withheld. file_url is the council's file the line came from. Payments under £250 are not published.
What you're getting
- Every row has its source URL, so any figure can be walked back to the council's or funder's own document.
- The grants data is a minimum rather than a total. We count a grant when the funder recorded it against Hastings, and money filed under a wider area is invisible to us. Please don't report our total as "all the money".
- Awarded is not the same as spent. Nothing here tells you whether a grant was drawn down or what it achieved.
- Planning rows give the site address only. We deliberately leave out applicant, agent and objector details.
- Councillor rows give public role facts from the council's own register: name, division, party and committee seats. No contact details and nothing personal. For the rest, the council's page for each member is the record.
- Events say what a document records, not what happened in the world. "Applied" is not "granted" and "awarded" is not "spent", and every row has its evidence link so you can check.
- These files are rebuilt every few hours. Data health shows whether collection is currently working.
Licence and credit
Council documents are © their publishing authorities and generally available under the Open Government Licence; grants data comes from 360Giving publishers under their own licences; street names are © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. You can use our own compilation work (the joins, the entity graph, the tagging) freely. Where a licence requires attribution, please pass it on.