Where to view planning application details and documents

Public register

We are required to keep a public register of planning applications that includes the following information:

• application forms
• plans and drawings
• planning obligation documents
• details of any direction under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) and the Town and Country Planning (Development Procedure Order) 2015 (as amended)
• decision notices
• reserved matters or details reserved by condition
• design and access statements

We are not required to keep this information in paper form. Our public register is a combination of paper and electronic records. Where this information is electronic, it is available online as detailed below.

Pre 1949

We only hold Planning application records from 1949 to present day. Older records are available at the The Keep (county archive). We do not hold an index to these. To contact The Keep visit their website www.thekeep.info.

1949 to 1972

Limited details of most applications are available online through our Planning Public Access tool.

Application forms, drawings and decision notices are available online through our Planning Public Access tool. Original documents are held at The Keep. To contact The Keep visit their website www.thekeep.info.

1973 to 1988

Limited details of most applications are available online through our Planning Public Access tool.

Decision notices are available to view online through our Planning Public Access tool.

Application forms, drawings and other information are only available in paper files. Information that we do not need to keep has been removed from many of these files. To view a paper planning file please email planning@hastings.gov.uk to request access.

1989 to 2002

Details of all applications are available online through our Planning Public Access tool.

Decision notices are available to view online through our Planning Public Access tool.

Application forms, drawings and other information are only available in paper files. Information that we do not need to keep has been removed from many of these files.  To view a paper planning file please email planning@hastings.gov.uk to request access.

2003 to present day

Details of all applications are available online through our Planning Public Access tool.

Application forms, drawings and other information are available to view online through our Planning Public Access tool. Work is underway to destroy all paper records for applications where electronic files are held. We do check that all key documents have been scanned before papers are destroyed.

Paper copies of documents for applications from 2018 onwards are not kept unless the application was refused. In this case we keep them for one year to allow for an appeal.

Terms and conditions of use

Please read the terms and conditions of use before you use information available on our Planning Public Access tool.