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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
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 dates12,485Searchable applications
197Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 10,970 approved or refused records
593Refused applications
10,377 approved · 593 refused · 911 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 Dec 2008 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 19 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
- Decided25/0089/AMCPP
Discharge of Condition (4) (Bat Survey) of approved consent 24/0446/PP.
Former Co-op Newmilns Road, Galston, KA4 8PA
Received 6 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0396/AD
Installation and display of vinyl wrap to front and side of proposed prescription collection machine, plus LED light strip.
Stewart Pharmacy 55 High Street Stewarton East Ayrshire KA3 5BP
Received 7 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0397/PP
Installation of detached prescription collection machine on paved area adjacent to existing pharmacy.
Stewart Pharmacy 55 High Street Stewarton East Ayrshire KA3 5BP
Received 7 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0027/NMV
Non Material Variation for Diaphragm wall drawings revised to reflect "As Built" Proposed car park layout revised. Guardrail in lieu of bollards, and Galvanised street light added of Planning Permission 22/0659/PP Remedial works to stabilise the gable wall and new hard landscaping with parking spaces.
12-16 Glaisnock Street Cumnock KA18 1DA
Received 5 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0398/PP
Proposed extension to existing woodland burial ground
Land Adjacent To Woodland Burial Ground C66 From C85 Waterslap To West View Waterside Fenwick East Ayrshire
Received 8 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0028/NMV
Proposed use of tumbled grey concrete sett in lieu of small granite setts originally consented (Planning Consent No. 06/0976/FL
56 Dundonald Road Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 1RZ
Received 8 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0090/AMCPP
Discharge of Condition 6 (a)(CTMP), Condition 11 (a)(CEMP) and Condition 20 (Imported Materials) of Planning Consent 24/0220/PPP.
Vacant field located to south of B7081 and north of Moorfield Industrial Park Kilmarnock
Received 8 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0401/LDPU
Proposed alterations to existing windows and doors, and installation of roof lantern on existing rear extension.
25 Glebe Road Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 3AZ
Received 11 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0403/TP
Lime Tree at boundary next to garden of 71 Brewland Street (Tree 4 on plan provided) - Neighbour (71) has requested overhanging branches are cut back to the boundary.
75 Brewland Street Galston East Ayrshire KA4 8DX
Received 11 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0406/LDPU
Alterations to form 2no. window openings and a doorway opening
8 Clearmount Avenue Newmilns East Ayrshire KA16 9ER
Received 12 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0407/PP
Change of use from library to house of multiple occupancy (HMO), replacement windows and external alterations
4 Craigview Road Newmilns East Ayrshire KA16 9DQ
Received 13 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0029/NMV
Non-material variation to planning consent 23/0580/PP comprising; extension of the High Voltage (HV) Yard equipment and HV Yard,reorganisation of ancillary buildings and kit to the western elevation, including: two larger Comms House buildings alternated for four smaller buildings; and the removal of proposed battery blocks from the southwest boundary, Relocation of internal noise attention fence, which runs around the perimeter of the battery blocks, adjustment to access track layout, amendment of perimeter security/acoustic fence, amendment to the shape of the SUDs Pond
Land Off Ayr Road Coylton A70 From B730 To U74 Bardarroch Ochiltree East Ayrshire
Received 12 Aug 2025 - Unknown25/0409/PN
Prior Notification for Demolition of buildings.
45 George Mcturk Court Cumnock East Ayrshire KA18 1HW
Received 14 Aug 2025 - Registered25/0410/PPP
Erection of industrial storage and distribution units, with ancillary infrastructure, parking and landscaping.
Site Of Existing Kirklandside Hospital U63 Wheatriggs From A76 At Kirklandside Hospital To Whatriggs Road Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 5LH
Received 14 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0411/PP
Change of use of part of building from Class 4 (business) to Class 3 (food and drink).
Civic Centre North 19 John Dickie Street Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 1HW
Received 14 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0412/PP
Erection of dwellinghouse
Former Bar Littlemill Place Rankinston KA6 7HJ
Received 14 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0413/PP
Formation of raised terrace (retrospective)
18A Barrhill Road Cumnock East Ayrshire KA18 1PG
Received 15 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0415/PP
Erection of screen fence (retrospective)
32 Rugby Road Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 2DQ
Received 19 Aug 2025 - Unknown25/0416/PN
Prior Notification for Farm-related Building Works (Non-residential).
Muirhouse Farm U16 Gatehead - Thorntoun From B7081 To A759 At Gatehead Gatehead East Ayrshire KA2 0BT
Received 19 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0091/AMCPP
Submission for approval of Condition 4(a) (levels and earthworks) of Planning Consent 24/0583/PP (Change of use of land for use as picnic area and community garden with associated parking (vehiclular and cycle) and footpaths)
land to south of Smallburn Road, Muirkirk
Received 19 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0417/PP
Change of use of agricultural land for temporary residential use.
Skerrington Mill Farm John Allan Drive Netherthird Cumnock East Ayrshire KA18 3AF
Received 20 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0418/PP
Proposed 70KW Biomass Boiler in Shipping Container
11A Orchard Street Galston East Ayrshire KA4 8ER
Received 20 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0419/TP
Sycamore T10 - Retrospective for 2m branch been removed, and further 3m of same branch to be removed back to trunk
Tannahill Farm Kilmaurs KA3 2LN
Received 21 Aug 2025 - Decided25/0005/PREAPP
Erection and operation of up to 5 wind turbines, each with an external transformer and associated hardstandings, a control building, temporary construction compounds, formation of new access tracks and other ancillary development
Land At Glenouther Moor East Ayrshire
Received 21 Aug 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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