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Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
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East Ayrshire
Planning applications.
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for East Ayrshire. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates11,714Searchable applications
197Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 10,316 approved or refused records
560Refused applications
9,756 approved · 560 refused · 843 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Dec 2008 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 18 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Planning information Planning and the environmentLocal plan Local Development Plan (LDP)Pre-application advice Planning pre-application adviceConservation areas Conservation area appraisals
Council contacts
- Planning enquiries01563576790Council source
- Planning enquiries01563576749Council source
- General council enquiriesplanning.enforcement@east-ayrshire.gov.ukCouncil source
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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.
Conservation areas26 mapped area records
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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.
More application records
- Decided25/0026/PP
2 bay extension to existing (Building No.8) Class 4 Business Unit and provision of a further 4 parking spaces.
Magbiehill Park A735 From Dunlop Road To U26 Clerkland Stewarton East Ayrshire KA3 3ES
Received 17 Jan 2025 - Unknown25/0027/PN
Prior Notification for Farm-related Building Works (Non-residential).
West Gatehead Farm U16 Gatehead - Thorntoun From B7081 To A759 At Gatehead Gatehead East Ayrshire KA2 0BT
Received 20 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0028/PP
Stable block for 2no. horses (partly retrospective)
Bellisle Cottage Bellisle Farm A719 From B744 To C127 Ashyard Galston East Ayrshire KA1 5JF
Received 20 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0001/AMCPP
Discharge of Condition 6 (Travel Pack), Condition 18 (Drainage Details) and Condition 22 (Energy Design Analysis Report) of Planning Consent Ref No. 22/0460/PP (Erection of 48 unit affordable housing development)
Silverwood Primary School Kennedy Drive New Farm Loch Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA3 7SZ
Received 17 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0029/PP
Erection of community sports hub and formation of parking and landscaping, etc.
Site Adjacent To Cumnock Juniors Football Pitch Off Townhead Street Cumnock Townhead Street Cumnock East Ayrshire
Received 21 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0002/AMCPP
Submission for approval of Condition (3) (Restoration Scheme) of Planning Consent 24/0440/PP (Details relating to Wind Farm access track)
Mill Rig Wind Farm Access Waterhead Peelhill And Linbank Highway Strathaven
Received 21 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0032/PP
Change of Use of Vacant Ground to Garden and alterations to boundary wall. Erection of new Garage to rear. Rear Extension and Alterations to House.
12 Portland Road And Land To The South Thereof, Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 2BS
Received 21 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0033/CA
Demolition of building
35 Main Street Kilmaurs Kilmarnock KA3 2SY
Received 22 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0034/PP
Demolition of existing unused building and change of use of land to form parking facilities and loading bay
35 Main Street Kilmaurs Kilmarnock KA3 2SY
Received 22 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0035/PP
Erection of a steel portal framed extension to the existing grain/feed store building.
Low Carston Farm C49 Mauchline Road From Ochiltree To Rodenloft Ochiltree East Ayrshire KA18 2QB
Received 22 Jan 2025 - Unknown25/0036/PN
Prior Notification for Forestry-related track upgrade
Land Around Borland Mains off Loganhill Road. Existing farm track
Received 22 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0037/PP
Re-purposing existing car parking spaces for use as parking spaces for recharging of electric vehicles, including the installation of upstands, feeder pillar, bollards, lighting column and associated landscaping adjustments
Glencairn Retail Park Kilmarnock KA1 4DQ
Received 23 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0038/PP
Alterations to roof including replacement of 2 no. roof lights and infilling of 1 no. roof light.
2 Riverside Villas Catrine MAUCHLINE KA5 6SE
Received 23 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0040/PP
External alterations to restaurant, including reconfiguration of patio area, removal of the play frame, installation of new furniture, with associated works to the site
Mcdonalds Restaurant 2 Bellfield Interchange Service Station Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 5LQ
Received 24 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0001/S36SCR
Screening request for the construction and operation of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) development with a capacity of 150MW and the associated infrastructure
On Land At Killoch East Ayrshire KA18 2QH
Received 22 Jan 2025 - Unknown25/0041/PN
Replacement of 3no. windows to dormer window
13 Cumnock Road Mauchline East Ayrshire KA5 5AE
Received 22 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0042/PP
Erection of monopitch storage shed
31 Townholm Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA3 1BB
Received 24 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0003/NMV
Non Material Variation (For an amendment to the siting of approved containers) of Planning Consent 24/0463/PP (Construction of cycle track, siting of a storage container, a workshop container, and a cafe/refreshments container, and installation of 2.4m fence with 1.2m path to existing changing pavilion.
Construction Of Cyle Track Mcadam Way Dalmellington East Ayrshire
Received 24 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0043/PP
Proposed new dwellinghouse including access, parking and garden
Land Adjacent To Parkhouse 27 Foulpapple Road Newmilns Foulpapple Road Newmilns East Ayrshire KA16 9LB
Received 27 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0002/S36SCR
Screening Opinion Request for proposed 200 MW battery energy storage system and associated infrastructure
Land Adjacent Killoch Ochiltree
Received 23 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0044/PP
Painting of gable wall to form mural
Gable Of Former Building At 8 10 East Main Street Darvel East Main Street Darvel East Ayrshire
Received 27 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0045/PP
Proposed renewal of temporary consent for the erection (retention) of a modular classroom as previously approved under application 19/1006/PP.
Dunlop Primary School Main Street Dunlop East Ayrshire KA3 4AN
Received 28 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0046/PP
Proposed single storey rear and side extension, plus associated external alterations.
22 Bowmore Road Altonhill Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA3 1TE
Received 28 Jan 2025 - Decided25/0047/LDPU
Formation of slurry lagoon and silage clamp
Barturk Farm C49 Mauchline Road From Ochiltree To Rodenloft Ochiltree East Ayrshire KA18 2QE
Received 29 Jan 2025
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What these statistics cover
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for East Ayrshire, 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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