FOI request (FOIR-431182750)

Residential Property Development Projects

Requested Tue 21 June 2022
Responded Thu 25 August 2022

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information on Residential Property Development Projects.

Response

Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding.

- How many applications did you receive to build new residential properties?

- How many new residential units/properties did you approve to be built?

- How many applications to build new residential units/properties were rejected?

- On average how long did it take to approve new residential property build applications?

- In the first five months of 2022, how many applications did you receive to build residential properties?

- In the first five months of 2022, how many residential units/properties did you approve to be built?

Answer: For all above questions - Data not held in that format - however all of the above questions can be answered through interrogating our Planning Public Access Website - using the advanced search https://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/search.do?action=advanced

- How many new residential units/properties were built and approved?

- In the first five months of 2022, how many new residential units/properties were built and approved?

Answer: The Local Plan Monitoring Report available online via Local plan monitoring in Hastings includes in the 2020/21 version at tables 2 and 3 the number and type of residential properties built in that year and previous years. The monitoring report covering 2021/22 monitoring data is not yet available and will be published on this webpage once it is.

https://www.hastings.gov.uk/planning/policy/localplanmonitoring/

- How many people worked in your planning department?

Answer: 

2019 - 20

2020 - 15

2021 - 16

2022 to date - 16