Former Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Road, Hastings, TN34 1DT
Approved on 11 June 2025
Council decision: GRANTED PERMISSIONDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Discharge of conditions: 8 (lighting scheme); 10(iv) (details of vents and flues) and 13 (cycle parking) of Planning Permission HS/FA/23/00706
- Received
- 29 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Hastings Borough Council
- Ward
- CASTLE
- ReceivedReceived29 Apr
- ValidatedValidated13 May
- Consult.Consultation8 Jul
- TargetTarget Date8 Jul
- DecidedDecided11 Jun
Decided in 29 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Former Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Road, Hastings, TN34 1DT. Hastings has handled 124 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker than Hastings's typical decision time. The site is in the Hastings Town Centre conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 77 applications across CASTLE. We hold 549 applications in total for the TN34 postcode area.
93% of conditions applications at Hastings Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- TN34 1DT
- Application type
- Discharge of Conditions
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 May 2025
- Consultation start
- 15 May 2025
- Last date for comments
- 8 July 2025
- Target decision date
- 8 July 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- IF_DO
- Agent address
- First Floor, 23 Charlotte Road, London, EC2A 3PB
Planning decision
- Case officer
- E Meppem
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Hastings Town Centre+1 more
- Brownfield land register: Former Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Road, HastingsRegister site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (18)
flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202429 May
Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) and removal of condition 14(i) details of the proposed access deck…
ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)HS/FA/24/00404 - 202416 May
Discharge of condition 9 (external walls and roof cladding materials) of Planning Permission HS/FA/23/00706
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsHS/CD/24/00374
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