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For local businesses

Three questions, answered from the public record: what is changing near your premises, what public money you could go for, and which rules are changing while you can still have a say. There's no sign-up, and we don't give advice or tell you what you're eligible for. Every row links to its source.

Business premises on the move

Planning applications about commercial premises, such as a change of use, a new shopfront or a former pub becoming a café. We pick them out of the weekly lists using words in the council's own description, and each row shows the words that matched. The extensions and conservatories this leaves out are on the full planning page.

All planning

For your own street or premises: search a postcode or street name, or start from your ward. Every street page lists what has been proposed and decided there, and has a feed you can follow. That's how you can hear about the application next door before it is decided.

What public bodies are buying

Money going out: contract notices from the two national services, Contracts Finder (below-threshold) and Find a Tender (above-threshold). A notice appears here when the buyer is a Hastings council, when the notice states a delivery postcode in the borough, or when the buyer or winning supplier is itself based here. Each row says which of these reasons applies.

These are minimums, not totals. Below-threshold notices reach Contracts Finder at the buyer's discretion, and our record starts on Wed 15 Jul 2026, so earlier contracts aren't shown. County-council notices cover the whole county and are labelled, never counted as Hastings spending.

Open to bid

Notices still open, soonest deadline first. Each notice says how to respond. New notices appear in the opportunities feed, and their closing dates in the deadlines calendar. Neither needs an account.

Recently awarded

Awarded is not the same as spent, and the council's own papers hold the decision behind each contract.

Contracts ending soon: when the contracts already let around Hastings end, and so when the work is likely to be let again.

The government's own services search every public body: Contracts Finder lists most public-sector contract opportunities, and Find a Tender the largest ones. Both are free and need no account to search.

What actually gets funded here

The most recent published grants: who got the money, what for, and how much. It's the most reliable guide to what funders actually pay for in this town, but only their own programme pages can tell you what they would fund next.

The money map

Rules changing now

Consultations that are still open. Licensing policy, trading rules and charges usually change through a consultation, so a taxi licensing amendment or a gambling policy review, for example, appears here while you can still respond.

All consultations

No open consultations on the record right now.

Premises licences, street trading and gambling policy are decided by the borough council's licensing committees; their papers are in the committee record with every other borough committee's.

Everything we hold on licensing (premises licences, street trading, taxis and gambling policy) is gathered on the licensing & trading topic page, which explains exactly how it is compiled.

Who decides, and how to keep watch

The people behind the decisions, and the feeds that watch the record for you. Nothing needs an account, and we never learn who is watching.

The decisions digest is what has actually been decided, in plain English; the committee record holds each committee's meetings and papers. Agendas usually appear about a week before a meeting, so you can see what's being decided while it can still change. The councillors page lists the borough councillors by ward and the county councillors by division.

To watch without checking back: the opportunities feed carries every contract notice still open to bid and every consultation still open to answer, and the deadlines calendar puts their closing dates in your diary, updating itself when a deadline moves. Every street and organisation page has its own feed — how to follow explains it from scratch.

If you run an organisation here, the opportunity radar goes a step further: say what you do once, and it keeps a page of every open tender and consultation that mentions it, with deadlines and the matched words shown. Only you can judge whether a notice suits your business, from what the notice itself says.