Writing a DAS for a Hastings application
A Design & Access Statement explains and justifies your proposal against the development plan. For schemes across Hastings — Hastings, St Leonards-on-Sea, Ore and Hollington and the surrounding area — that means engaging Hastings's own adopted policies on design, character and amenity, plus the NPPF. Buildwise auto-detects site constraints (conservation areas (Old Town, Burton's St Leonards), High Weald National Landscape (adjacent) and coastal / flood risk) from your postcode and writes each section tailored to your site and project type.
Cited to Hastings's actual adopted plan
Buildwise references Hastings's live policies directly — for example design, amenity and character policies such as DM1 (Design Principles), DM3 (General Amenity), SC2 (Design and Access Statements) — quoted from the source documents and verified, never invented. As Hastings updates its plan, Buildwise's corpus is updated with it.
- Hastings Planning Strategy (2014)
- Hastings Development Management Plan (2015)
How it works
Address + postcode; constraints detected automatically.
Usually under 10 minutes.
Download as PDF, edit online, or send to your client under your practice logo.
Example (excerpt)
"The single-storey design and restrained ridge height directly address scale and massing, ensuring compliance with Policy DM1 (Design Principles). Generous separation to the host dwelling with no new facing windows satisfies the amenity requirements engaged by Policy DM3…"
Frequently asked questions
Required for major development and for most work in conservation areas or the conservation areas (Old Town, Burton's St Leonards); often expected for householder schemes too. Buildwise produces one either way.
Hastings's adopted Hastings Planning Strategy (2014) and Hastings Development Management Plan (2015) policies relevant to your scheme — such as DM1 (Design Principles), DM3 (General Amenity), SC2 (Design and Access Statements) — plus the NPPF.
Minutes, versus most of a working day by hand.
Your first statement is free, no card needed. The permitted development check is always free.
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