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15 Norman Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6NH
Change of Use of ground floor from retail to restaurant. Insert railing to first floor front window
Land to the rear of 50 Middle Road, Hastings, TN35 5DL
Proposed 2-bed bungalow with associated parking and landscaping
Bannatynes Health Club, Battle Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 8EZ
Installation of 2no. electric vehicle recharging upstands with 1no. associated feeder pillar, and...
3 Seaside Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0AL
Replacement of door with window and two windows with single window to ground floor rear. Replacem...
19 Wellington Square, Hastings, TN34 1PB
Discharge of Condition 5 (Ventilation) of Listed Building Consent HS/LB/24/00818.
Annexe, 130 Harold Road, Hastings, TN35 5NN
Discharge of Condition 3 (Refuse), 4 (Cycle storage) and 5 (Landscaping) of HS/FA/26/00184
Gensing Manor, 19 Dane Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0FB
Discharge of Condition 3 (Materials) of Planning Approval HS/FA/23/00871
120 Braybrooke Road, Hastings, TN34 1TG
Raised decking, 1.8m closeboard fencing, and 1.1m glazed balustrade to rear garden
79-86 Castleham Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 9NU
Over roofing works to industrial units, to include: - overlay of existing asbestos cement roofing...
117 Ghyllside Avenue, Hastings, TN34 2QB
Erection of garden outbuilding
Westerleigh Cottage, 4 Hollington Park Close, St Leonards-on-sea, TN38 0SQ
Retrospective planning application for an existing ancillary equine welfare / storage unit and so...
3 Ledsham Way, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 7LG
Demolition of existing conservatory and side hallway extension and the construction of a single-s...
12 Clive Avenue, Hastings, TN35 5LW
Construction of a single-storey rear kitchen extension to an existing detached two-bedroom dwelling.
1 Turing Way, Hastings, TN34 3FN
Two-storey outbuilding for use as an art studio; to include roof lights and solar panels
Scout Building, ARK William Parker Academy, Parkstone Road, Hastings, TN34 2PB
New Scout Hut to provide storage facilities for 24th Hastings Scout Group.
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When Hastings Borough Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Hastings Borough Council, raw rate
30.4%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
30.2%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
0.2 percentage points above expected. Hastings Borough Council's decisions are overturned more often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
222 appeals counted, 217 judged either way (66 allowed, 151 dismissed), 5 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-08 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 140 | 138 | 36 | 26.1% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 49 | 49 | 20 | 40.8% | 35.6% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 10 | 10 | 3 | 30% | 36.9% |
| Listed Building Consent & Conservation Area Consent Appeal | 10 | 10 | 3 | 30% | 25% |
| Enforcement Notice | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0% | 13.5% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 2 | 2 | 1 | Too few judged | 33.3% |
| Tree Preservation Order | 2 | 2 | 2 | Too few judged | 20.6% |
| Advertisement Appeal | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 36% |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Hastings Borough Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Hastings Borough Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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