Consultations

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

Draft Local Plan Regulation 19 stage

Hastings Borough Council is now consulting on the Pre-Submission version of its new Local Plan. The Local Plan will help to steer development in the borough to 2041. 

Representations (comments) must be made based on the legal compliance and/or the soundness of the Plan.

Find out more and send your representations.

Status: Open
Closes: 11.59pm, Thursday 12 November

Dog Control Public Space Protection Order review

Hastings Borough Council was asking for your views on proposed changes to our Dog Control Public Space Protection Order (PSPO).

Responses were in favour of extending the PSPO for another three years, as well as allowing dogs on leads at Hastings Castle, and to require anyone walking a dog to have a means of removing dog fouling. You can watch the Cabinet meeting where this was agreed.

Status: Closed
Closed: 4.59pm, Friday 24 July

Hastings Borough Council taxi licensing policy amendment

Hastings Borough Council wants to know your views on proposed changes to our Taxi Licensing Policy.

These proposals are around the age of vehicles that can be used as taxis.

Status: Closed
Closed: 11.59pm, Sunday 26 July

Find out more.

Draft Local Plan Preferred Options - Regulation 18 consultation (2026)

We will now review all the comments and evidence submitted and use it to inform the next stage of the Local Plan. Further updates will be shared in the coming months. 

Status: Closed
Closed: 11.59pm, Tuesday 7 April 2026

Find out more.

Gambling Statement of Principles 2026

The council was asking for feedback on an updated Gambling Statement of Principles. The Gambling Act 2005 requires all local authorities to have in place a Statement of Principles, which must be reviewed and consulted upon at least every three years. The current Hastings Borough Council policy has been in place since 2023 and has now been reviewed and revised to include a local area profile within Appendix 7 of the Policy.

The updated policy was agreed by Full Council on Wednesday 18 March 2026.

Status: Closed
Closed: Monday 22 December 2025

Find out more and read the updated policy.

Have your say on Plan for Neighbourhoods Spend

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

The responses were shared with the Hastings Neighbourhood Board so they could prepare the submission to government in November. 

Status: Closed
Closed: Tuesday 14 October

Find out more about the Pride in Place programme and read the plan.

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

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