Planning data
Housing Delivery Test result for Hastings
What the public record actually shows for Hastings. Every figure below is measured or published, with its sample and its date. Nothing here is an estimate, and none of it predicts what a particular application will do.
How long decisions took
We have not measured decision times for Hastings. That is a gap in our coverage, not a finding about this council: our crawl of council registers reaches some authorities and not others, and we would rather say so than borrow a national average.
Housing Delivery Test
Hastings measured 44% in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test — consequence: Presumption.
MHCLG records 646 homes delivered against a three-year requirement of 1,457.
It fell well short of its housing requirement. Under the August 2026 Framework that is one of the routes into policy S5(1)(j), which can support housing meeting an evidenced unmet need outside a settlement, subject to that policy’s own tests. It is a point in your favour, not a decision.
Published by MHCLG on 17 August 2026. This is the most recent measurement published, not a current-year figure.
Planning appeals in Hastings
24 allowed in full, 47 dismissed, from 71 planning appeals decided for Hastings between 1 January 2021 and 31 July 2026.
We do not turn that into a percentage: under 100 decided appeals, a rate looks like a finding and behaves like noise. The counts are the honest form. This is not a statement that no appeals succeeded. Only refused applications get appealed, so these are a self-selected minority of decisions.
What this page is not
It does not tell you what constrains a particular site in Hastings. Designations sit on land, not on councils. For that, run a free check on the site itself: it names every designation on or beside the boundary, states when each dataset was last collected, and says plainly where a record is not published rather than showing you a clear result.
Check a site in Hastings — freeAppeal outcomes from the Planning Inspectorate appeals database, England only, Open Government Licence v3.0, release of 31 August 2026. Decision speed measured from council registers by PF & Co. Housing Delivery Test © MHCLG, Open Government Licence v3.0. All 274 authorities.