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3 Ellenslea Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6HX

HS/FA/25/00570Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 3 February 2026

Council decision: GRANTED PERMISSIONDelegated (officer decision)12 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use from residential maisonette (C3) to a 10 bedroom House of Multiple occupation (HMO) (sui generis) (amended description).

Received
1 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
GENSING
Agent
AJ Leaseplan Ltd
  1. Received1 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.23 Dec
  4. Target23 Dec
  5. Decided3 Feb

Decided in 98 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 3 Ellenslea Road, St Leonards-on-sea, TN37 6HX. Hastings has handled 387 applications of this type. This one was decided in 125 days, 10 weeks longer than Hastings's typical decision time. The site is in the King's Road, St Leonards conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across GENSING. We hold 173 applications in total for the TN37 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
TN37 6HX
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025
Consultation expiry
14 November 2025
Consultation start
28 January 2026
Last date for comments
23 December 2025
Target decision date
23 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
AJ Leaseplan Ltd
Agent address
OCC Building a, 105 Eade Road, N4 1TJ

Planning decision

Case officer
William Larkin
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 November 2025
Site notice start
14 November 2025

Additional information

Documents
29
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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.

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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