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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 dates12,585Searchable applications
197Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 11,050 approved or refused records
601Refused applications
10,449 approved · 601 refused · 922 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
Article 4 direction areasBoundary dataset not connected
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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
- Decided25/0483/PPP
Planning permission in principle for a new residential dwelling
Land To North East Of Flaxfield House, Mauchline
Received 26 Sept 2025 - Decided25/0484/PP
Demolition of the 2 garage blocks and erection of a two-storey office building with garage, bin and cycle storage facilities and 2 parking spaces.
Open Space At Corner Of Glaisnock And Holmburn Road Holmburn Road Netherthird Cumnock East Ayrshire
Received 26 Sept 2025 - Decided25/0485/PP
Erection of multi purpose shed
Threepwood Farm U55 Threepwood And Cairnhill From C104 At Sornhill To U56 Meikle Carleith Galston East Ayrshire KA4 8ND
Received 26 Sept 2025 - Decided25/0486/PP
Erection of multi purpose shed
Threepwood Farm U55 Threepwood And Cairnhill From C104 At Sornhill To U56 Meikle Carleith Galston East Ayrshire KA4 8ND
Received 26 Sept 2025 - Decided25/0107/AMCPP
Discharge of Planning Condition (2)(Ground Levels), Condition(6)(Boundary Treatment), Condition (8)(Low Carbon Emission) and Condition (1) (External Finishes) (of Planning Consent 21/0455/PP)(Proposed Erection of a Bungalow)
Vacant Plot Of Ground At Friendliehead Farm Nr Mauchline
Received 26 Sept 2025 - Decided25/0488/PP
Erection of 8no. x 15 metre high floodlights to football ground.
Football Pavillion Blair Road Hurlford East Ayrshire KA1 5BN
Received 29 Sept 2025 - Decided25/0489/AD
Installation and display of 2no. 'Nando's' high level letters (front and side elevations respectively), 1no. Barci Roundel, and 1no. Menu Board.
Frankie And Bennies Queen's Drive Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 3XB
Received 30 Sept 2025 - Decided25/0490/AD
Installation and display of internally illuminated hoarding.
Arnold Clark Queen's Drive Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 3XF
Received 30 Sept 2025 - Decided25/0491/LDPU
Installation of solar panels
Hareshaw Community Hall Waterside East Ayrshire KA3 6JB
Received 1 Oct 2025 - Unknown25/0493/PN
Prior Notification for Farm-related Building Works (Non-residential).
Laigh Tarbeg A70 Ochiltree By-pass Ochiltree East Ayrshire KA18 2RL
Received 3 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0494/PP
Proposed lined earth banked slurry lagoon
Killoch Farm U75 Barneight And Killoch From U723 Friendlesshead To U77 Boghead Mauchline East Ayrshire KA4 8NL
Received 9 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0496/LDEU
Siting of existing 40ft container at rear of building.
Ian Gordon Commercials Schaw Kirk Garage B730 From C82 At Schaw To A70 At Coalhall Coalhall East Ayrshire KA5 5JA
Received 9 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0497/PP
Stable block with associated horse rooms.
Woodlands Burnockstone Farm U728 Glenconner From A70 Nr Ochiltree To B7046 Ochiltree East Ayrshire KA18 2RH
Received 9 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0498/PP
Proposed erection of single-storey side extension connecting existing dwellinghouse to detached garage, and external alterations associated with conversion of detached garage.
24 Langmuir Quadrant Kilmaurs East Ayrshire KA3 2UA
Received 9 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0499/TCA
Proposed pollarding to height of 5 metres of 1no. Willow tree and felling of 1no. dieback-afflicted Ash tree.
Barr Castle Barr Street Galston East Ayrshire KA4 8HU
Received 9 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0500/PP
Installation of solar PV panels to rear elevation of property.
Dalgain Farm 2 Dalgain Main Street Sorn East Ayrshire KA5 6JD
Received 9 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0501/LB
Installation of solar PV panels to rear elevation of the property
Dalgain Farm 2 Dalgain Main Street Sorn East Ayrshire KA5 6JD
Received 9 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0502/PP
Single Storey Extension to Front of Dwelling
7 Hugh Watt Place Kilmaurs East Ayrshire KA3 2PZ
Received 9 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0503/PP
Demolition of fire damaged house and the erection of two detached houses
Doonholm 3 Holms Farm Road Dalrymple East Ayrshire KA6 6BB
Received 10 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0504/PP
Proposed New Detached Garage
27 Bowes Rigg Stewarton East Ayrshire KA3 5EL
Received 10 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0112/AMCPP
Application for approval/discharge of Condition 2 (External Materials), Condition 4 (Landscaping and Biodiversity), Condition 6 (Drainage), Conditions 8 and 9 (Geo-Environmental) of Planning Consent 24/0330/PP
Coyle Water Fishery Shield Mains Access Road South Ayrshire Boundary Coalhall East Ayrshire KA6 6LZ
Received 13 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0113/AMCPP
Discharge of conditions 18(a) Lighting and 27(a) Noise Management of 23/0005/S36
Inchbean Farm Treeswoodhead Road Shortlees Kilmarnock East Ayrshire KA1 5LL
Received 13 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0506/TP
Pine tree felling
44 Dauner Way Holmhead Cumnock KA18 1FP
Received 13 Oct 2025 - Decided25/0507/TP
Tree works at the Braes property - Proposed work to trees, removal or crown reduction of 14 trees
The Braes 30 Burn Road Darvel East Ayrshire KA17 0DB
Received 13 Oct 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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