East Sussex

Hastings planning data

2,779 planning applications from Hastings. Ask questions about them in plain English from ChatGPT or Claude — no coding, about two minutes to set up — or pull them straight into your own software. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,779

Applications

Enforcement notices

327

Appeals

1967–2026

Date range

What Hastings decides

Hastings has approved 85.71% of the 2,470 applications it has decided since January 2023. Across the 225 councils with a comparable caseload the range is 71.37% to 99.14%, so this is below the middle of the pack (89.18%).

85.71%

Approved, of 2,470 decided

Median days to a decision

98.1

Average days

What it mostly decides

The mix of application types Hastings handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	853	30.7%
Householder	595	21.4%
Conditions	458	16.5%
Tree	234	8.4%
Certificate	200	7.2%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Hastings actually fills in

A "field" is one piece of information on an application — the decision date, the applicant's name, the address. Councils fill these in inconsistently, so this table measures how often Hastings actually provides each one, across all 2,779 records. Anything listed as reliable you can count on; anything lower, check the council's own record before relying on it.

Once this data is connected to ChatGPT or Claude you can just ask "what information does Hastings actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Address `address`	2,779	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,779	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,779	100.0%
Status `status`	2,779	100.0%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	2,779	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,777	99.9%
Date received `received_date`	2,776	99.9%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,773	99.8%
Ward `ward`	2,772	99.7%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,733	98.3%
Decision `decision`	2,645	95.2%
Decision date `decision_date`	2,645	95.2%
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	2,637	94.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,575	92.7%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Postcode `postcode`	2,471	88.9%
Agent's name `agent_name`	2,251	81.0%
Agent's company `agent_company`	2,124	76.4%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,804	64.9%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	265	9.5%
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	52	1.9%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	52	1.9%
Agent's email `agent_email`	40	1.4%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Hastings's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=283&limit=5"

Council id for Hastings is 283. Full API reference for developers →

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