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West Hill Cafe, Castle Hill Road, Hastings, TN34 3RD

HS/FA/26/00093Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 17 September 2026

Council decision: GRANTED PERMISSION47 conditions

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

Proposal

Demolition of the existing café and toilets and redevelopment to form a single storey visitor centre with café, restaurant and bar, takeaway, gallery/interpretation zones, retail (mixed use Class E and Class F1) and reprovision of toilets on the site of the existing West Hill Café. Creation of a new pathway/boardwalk and installation of external lighting on pathways. Installation of air source heat pumps and solar panels and associated landscaping improvements (amended description)

Received
16 February 2026
Public comments
4 · last counted 31 October 2026
Ward
CASTLE
Agent
Poroban Limited
  1. Received16 Feb
  2. Validated5 Mar
  3. Consult.30 Apr
  4. Target30 Apr
  5. Decided17 Sep

Decided in 196 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at West Hill Cafe, Castle Hill Road, Hastings, TN34 3RD. Hastings has handled 387 applications of this type. This one was decided in 213 days, 22 weeks longer than Hastings's typical decision time. The site is in the Old Town, Hastings conservation area. There have been 4 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.

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 3RD
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Large

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 March 2026
Consultation expiry
20 March 2026
Consultation start
19 June 2026
Neighbour consultation start
1 July 2026
Last date for comments
30 April 2026
Target decision date
30 April 2026
Committee meeting
8 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Poroban Limited
Architect profile
POROBAN LIMITED
Agent address
43 Madron Street, London, SE17 2LE

Planning decision

Case officer
William Larkin
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
20 March 2026
Site notice start
20 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
172
Constraints
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Old Town, Hastings
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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.

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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  3. 2026
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