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The Local Plan, site by site

The Local Plan decides where new homes, workplaces and green space go in Hastings for the next fifteen years, and which planning applications the council should approve. This page lists every site in the council's latest draft, by ward, in the plan's own words, with a page for each.

Not open for comments on the council's consultation pages yet, as far as we can see. The council's own timetable is quoted below. When the consultation opens it will appear here and on Have your say.

The sites

34 sites: 23 for homes, 1,131 net new homes between them, 9 for workplaces and 2 for Gypsy and Traveller pitches. Each site has a page saying what the plan says about it, what a planning application there would have to do, and what people said about it in the spring.

Homes Workplaces Gypsy and Traveller pitches Each light is at the street the site's name or description gives, not its exact boundary, which is on the council's Policies Map ↗. Roads © OpenStreetMap contributors.

By ward: Ashdown (4), Baird (5), Braybrooke (1), Castle (1), Central St Leonards (3), Conquest (2), Gensing (1), Hollington (5), Maze Hill (2), Ore (5), West St Leonards (3), Wishing Tree (2)

Ashdown

Baird

Braybrooke

Castle

Central St Leonards

Conquest

Gensing

Hollington

Maze Hill

Ore

West St Leonards

Wishing Tree

Sites dropped since the spring draft

The spring draft had these sites too. The council's consultation report says why each was taken out.

Read from the plan ↗ and the spring consultation report ↗ with fixed rules. The spring figures are the council's own count of comments on each policy.

The plan

The version on this page: Appendix 1 Draft Local Plan - Pre Submission (Regulation 19) September 2026 ↗, Full Council, Wed 23 Sep 2026.

The timetable, in the council's words

What this stage is, and how to respond

Regulation 19 is the last stage before the plan is examined. The council publishes the plan it intends to submit, and anyone can send comments (called representations) during the publication period. They go, with the plan, to an independent planning inspector appointed by the government, who holds an examination.

At this stage the inspector's questions are set nationally: whether the plan is legally compliant (prepared the way the law requires), whether it is sound (positively prepared, justified by its evidence, effective, and consistent with national policy), and whether the council met its duty to cooperate with neighbouring councils. A comment is most useful when it says which policy or site it is about, which of those tests it thinks the plan meets or fails, and what change would fix it.

Comments made at the earlier stage (Regulation 18) don't carry over. How to send one, and by when, is on the council's consultation page. We don't suggest what to say.

The papers

Read from the councils' published papers with fixed rules; no language model is involved on this page. If we have got something wrong, it is corrected in place and logged on the about page.