Footpath HAS/288/1 adjoining West Hill Cafe, Castle Hill Road, Hastings, TN34 3RD
Approved on 13 August 2026
Council decision: Authorise request order S257Planning committee
Proposal
Request for an Order under Section 257 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to extinguish part of Public Footpath HAS/288/1 to enable development associated with planning application HS/FA/26/00093
- Received
- 10 July 2026
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Council
- Hastings Borough Council
- Ward
- CASTLE
- ReceivedReceived10 Jul
- ValidatedValidated14 Jul
- Consult.Consultation8 Sep
- TargetTarget Date8 Sep
- DecidedDecided13 Aug
Decided in 30 days
About this application
This is a planning application at Footpath HAS/288/1 adjoining West Hill Cafe, Castle Hill Road, Hastings, TN34 3RD. Hastings has handled 1,077 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 4 weeks quicker than Hastings's typical decision time. The site is in the Old Town, Hastings conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.
Application details
- Postcode
- TN34 3RD
- Application type
- S257 Footpath
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 July 2026
- Last date for comments
- 8 September 2026
- Target decision date
- 8 September 2026
- Committee meeting
- 12 August 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
Planning decision
- Case officer
- William Larkin
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
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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