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Planning applications

Planning applications validated by Hastings Borough Council, taken straight from its weekly lists. This is the earliest point at which you can see what is proposed near you and comment on it.

From 31 October 2026 a national scheme sets which applications officers decide and which may go to the Planning Committee: what changes, in the council's words.

For the applications that went to the Planning Committee, see how the committee decided: each officer's recommendation beside the committee's decision and vote. For how long decisions take and what happens on appeal, see appeals and decisions. Applications for ten or more homes, or 1,000 m² or more, are listed together under large applications.

Each address opens the application's own page: its dates, its decision, any appeal or committee item, and similar applications nearby. The council's file, linked from every page, has the plans and documents. How applications of each kind were decided is on appeals and decisions.

By the government's measure, the council decided 97.7% of 258 non-major applications in time in the 12 months to end of June 2026. How fast the council decides, quarter by quarter since 1996.

Homes: the government's Housing Delivery Test 2025 found 1,457 homes required and 646 delivered over 2022-23 to 2024-25: a measurement of 44%, with the consequence “Presumption”; the council's latest five-year housing land supply figure is 1.65 years (at December 2024). Both, with their sources.

The planning history of an address

Type part of an address or a postcode, such as “Old London Road” or “TN35 5BD”, to see every application we hold there, newest first. The search runs in your browser. Our record starts on 21 April 2026, from the council’s weekly lists; for anything earlier, the council’s own planning search ↗ goes back further.

How to read this page, and what it doesn't cover

We list the site, the proposal and the reference, and link to the council's own file for the full documents and the comment form. We do not reproduce applicant or objector details. Planning is quasi-judicial, so this is a record of what has been applied for, not our view of it.

The council's weekly list cuts long descriptions short. Where it does, we fill them in from the application's own summary page, taking the proposal text only. If a row still says "cut in the source list", we have not filled that one in yet and the full wording is in the application file.

The status shown is the council's own word for it. Whether the commenting period is still open is on the application file. The weekly list doesn't say, so neither do we.

The kind of application (new homes, trees, and so on) comes from the council's own reference code and a few fixed phrases in its description, not from a model. Anything those don't settle is "Other". Terms with a dotted underline have an explanation: hover over one or tap it.

Week beginning 26 October 2026

10 applications validated.

Week beginning 19 October 2026

7 applications validated.

Every week

Every week the council has listed since the week beginning 20 April 2026, newest first, with how many applications it validated. Each week's page has every one of them.

Decisions issued

The newest 20 decisions the council has issued, taken from its weekly lists of decided applications, in the council's own words. Each address opens the application's page, with the proposal and every decision on it. Where we don't have the outcome, the application file has it.