Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
Scotland · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Angus. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
12,835 approved · 516 refused · 1,168 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 12 Jun 2009 to 29 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland. Contains Historic Environment Scotland and Ordnance Survey data © Historic Environment Scotland – Scottish Charity No. SC045925 © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Open Government Licence v3.0. Data is indicative and may not contain the latest designations.
Workshop Station Road Barry Carnoustie DD7 7RS
Received 28 Jun 201981 Silver Birch Drive Baldovie Dundee DD5 3NS
Received 28 Jun 201920 Main Street Glamis Forfar DD8 1RU
Received 1 Jul 2019Forestry Access Road Kirriemuir
Received 1 Jul 2019Plot 2 Logie Kirriemuir
Received 1 Jul 20196 Erskine Place Montrose DD10 8HJ
Received 1 Jul 20191 Trinity Road Brechin DD9 6BE
Received 1 Jul 201934 Camus Road Arbroath DD11 5AN
Received 2 Jul 20191 Fountain Square Auchmithie Arbroath DD11 5SJ
Received 2 Jul 20192 Seafield Cottages Seafield Auchmithie Arbroath DD11 5SL
Received 2 Jul 2019Menmuir Parish Church Kirkton Of Menmuir Brechin DD9 7RN
Received 3 Jul 2019Menmuir Parish Church Kirkton Of Menmuir Brechin DD9 7RN
Received 3 Jul 2019Field West Of Haughmuir Farmhouse Haughmuir Brechin
Received 3 Jul 20191 Kirk Road Fowlis Dundee DD2 5SB
Received 4 Jul 20195 Kingfisher Road Forfar Angus DD8 3FR
Received 4 Jul 2019Land To Rear Of Electricity Sub Station Yeaman Street Carnoustie
Received 4 Jul 2019Land To Rear Of 6 Blairs Road Letham
Received 4 Jul 20197 Traill Drive Montrose DD10 8SW
Received 5 Jul 201976 Lord Lyell Drive Kirriemuir DD8 4LF
Received 5 Jul 2019Site Of Former Princess Alexandra House Dundee Road Forfar
Received 5 Jul 2019Former Montrose Airfield Charleton Road Montrose
Received 26 Jun 2019Millfield Cottage Arbroath DD11 3RA
Received 5 Jul 2019Land Adjacent To Kirriemuir Cemetery Cemetery Road Kirriemuir
Received 5 Jul 2019Former Tealing Airfield Tealing
Received 5 Jul 2019Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
Planning procedures in Scotland differ from those in England. Use the authority’s own guidance for application requirements, comments and decision timescales.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Angus, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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