Garage, Basement Garden Flat, 53 Ashburnham Road, Hastings, TN35 5JL

HS/EX/20/00919Cert. of Lawful Use/Development (extg)Approved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 25 February 2021

Council decision: GRANTED PERMISSIONDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for Existing use of the garage as storage for more than 10 years.

Received: 4 December 2020
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Hastings Borough Council
Ward: OLD HASTINGS 2018

ReceivedReceived4 Dec
ValidatedValidated20 Dec
Consult.Consultation14 Feb
TargetTarget Date14 Feb
DecidedDecided25 Feb

Decided in 67 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Garage, Basement Garden Flat, 53 Ashburnham Road, Hastings, TN35 5JL. Hastings has handled 9 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 weeks longer than Hastings's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 6 applications across OLD HASTINGS 2018. We hold 902 applications in total for the TN35 postcode area.

86% of all 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: TN35 5JL
Application type: Cert. of Lawful Use/Development (extg)
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 20 December 2020
Last date for comments: 14 February 2021
Target decision date: 14 February 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 7
Constraints: 8

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, 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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

Source: Hastings

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