Consultations

This page includes details of open consultations and recently closed ones that are waiting to be implemented.

Have your say on Plan for Neighbourhoods Spend

How would you spend up to £20 million to improve local neighbourhoods in Hastings over the next ten years?

The Hastings Neighbourhood Board was asking for your thoughts on how the Plan for Neighbourhood funding from the government should be spent.

The money can be spent on things like new parks and playgrounds, bus shelters, bins or benches, restoring buildings and public spaces, better footpaths, leisure facilities and sports areas, arts, culture and local history.

The responses will be shared with the Hastings Neighbourhood Board so they can prepare the submission to government before the November deadline.

Status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 14 October

Find out more about the Plan for Neighbourhoods survey

Statement of Community Involvement

Hastings Borough Council is consulting on its updated draft Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) and would like your comments. The SCI is a key planning document that sets out how and when we will engage with residents, businesses, and organisations in shaping the future of our town. It details how we will involve the community when developing new planning policies, considering proposals for the use and development of land and before making decisions on planning applications.

Status: Closed
Closed: 11.55pm on Wednesday 10 September

Call for Sites: Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Accommodation Sites

Hastings Borough Council, Rother District Council, Eastbourne Borough Council, Lewes District Council, Wealden District Council, and the South Downs National Park Authority are working together to identify suitable land for permanent Gypsy and Traveller pitches and Travelling Showpeople plots.

Status: Closed
Closed on: Sunday 5 October 2025

Find out more about the call for sites

Review of the Cumulative Impact Assessment

Hastings Borough Council was asking residents, businesses and stakeholders for their views on an updated Cumulative Impact Assessment (CIA). This is the three-yearly review of the CIA, the council was proposing to make amends to the area based on updated evidence from Sussex Police and East Sussex Public Health.

Find out more about the CIA review and have your say.

Status: Closed
Closed: 5pm Monday 15 September 2025

Government planning committee consultation 

This consultation has now closed. The government were consulting on the reform of planning committees. One of the main changes proposed by the new bill may reduce the influence that residents have in the planning process. We therefore asked that if it was important to you that you had your say on what development is permitted in Hastings, you shared your views.

More information can be found on the government's website.

Status: Closed
Closed: Wednesday 23 July 2025

Local Government Reorganisation

This survey has now closed. We were asking what you think would be the best way for council services to be reorganised in our area. 

The government announced in December that it wants to bring services together so there are fewer councils that deliver all the services for an area. This is called Local Government Reorganisation. 

In Hastings three potential options for how services could be reorganised are being considered. We wanted people’s feedback on these options. This is specific to Hastings. You can read more about the results of the Hastings survey. Results from the East Sussex-wide survey are being collated.

Status: Closed
Closed: 5pm Monday 7 July 2025

Devolution

The government's consultation into proposed devolution in Sussex has closed.

You can read full details about what they were asking.

The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill sets out how devolution will be delivered.

Status: Closed
Closed: Sunday 13 April 2025

Article 4 Directions (Landslide risk areas)

The council was seeking representations on the introduction of two Article 4 Directions to remove permitted development rights in two areas of St Leonards. The consultation is now closed and responses are being analysed.

Status: Closed
Closed: Friday 21 February 2025

View more information about two Article 4 Directions (Landslide risk areas)

Hastings Borough Council Public Path Diversion Order

Have your say on a Public Path Diversion Order that proposes the diversion of a footpath to enable development to be carried out in accordance with planning permission granted (HS/FA/14/00832) for the construction of a new road linking Sedlescombe Road North (A21) with Queensway (B2092), St Leonards. 

Status: Closed
Closed: Saturday 8 March 2025

View more information about the Public Path Diversion Order

Housing allocation policy consultation

The council was asking for views on changes to the Housing Allocations policy, which sets out how people are prioritised on the housing register. The responses were reviewed and an updated policy was approved at Cabinet on Monday 29 January 2024. The new policy is in the process of being implemented.

Status: Closed
Closed on: Friday 24 November 2023
View the Housing Allocations policy consultation

Health and leisure facilities consultation

Residents were being asked for their thoughts on health and leisure facilities in Hastings.

Continuum (a leading national Leisure Development consultant) were conducting a survey of residents, and users of Summerfields Leisure Centre, to assess the needs from a possible new facility in the future.

Status: Closed
Closed on: Saturday 30 September 2023

View the consultation on health and leisure facilities