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19 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HL

HS/FA/25/00094Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 1 May 2025

Council decision: GRANTED PERMISSIONDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use of part of the basement and ground floors and change of use of the 1st / 2nd / 3rd / 4th floors from Class E (office/retail) use to form 3 x residential flats. Internal and external alterations, to include the addition of a new dormer along the rear elevation at roof level, proposed hip to gable extension at fourth floor level, rear extension at second floor level, creation of new cycle and refuse store at basement level, replacement windows along the rear elevation and the creation of new residential access along the rear elevation (Amended Description).

Received
17 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
CASTLE 2018
Agent
J Butterworth Planning
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated25 Feb
  3. Consult.22 Apr
  4. Target22 Apr
  5. Decided1 May

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a dormer extension at 19 Robertson Street, Hastings, TN34 1HL. Hastings has handled 387 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 2 weeks longer 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 6 applications across CASTLE 2018. We hold 549 applications in total for the TN34 postcode area.

91% of full 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 1HL
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 February 2025
Consultation expiry
4 April 2025
Consultation start
31 March 2025
Last date for comments
22 April 2025
Target decision date
22 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
J Butterworth Planning
Agent address
71-75 Shelton Street, London, WC2H 9JQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
4 April 2025
Site notice start
4 April 2025

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
48
Constraints
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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 (19)

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, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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