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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for East Renfrewshire. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
8,033 approved · 685 refused · 348 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Jan 2000 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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.
20 Lochinch Place Newton Mearns East Renfrewshire G77 6XU
Received 17 Jan 201915 Woodside Avenue Thornliebank East Renfrewshire G46 7HR
Received 17 Jan 201924 Sunnybank Drive Clarkston East Renfrewshire G76 7ST
Received 18 Jan 20194 Atholl Drive Giffnock East Renfrewshire G46 6QR
Received 18 Jan 201917 Lochinch Place Newton Mearns East Renfrewshire G77 6XU
Received 23 Jan 2019Cross Arthurlie Primary School 7 Fern Drive Barrhead East Renfrewshire G78 1JF
Received 21 Jan 2019James McGuire Building 124 Main Street Barrhead East Renfrewshire G78 1SG
Received 21 Jan 2019James McGuire Building 124 Main Street Barrhead East Renfrewshire G78 1SG
Received 21 Jan 2019Adjacent To 1 Newton Place Newton Mearns East Renfrewshire G77 5PG
Received 21 Jan 201935 Atholl Drive Giffnock East Renfrewshire G46 6QW
Received 21 Jan 2019Cappelie Landfill Site Fereneze Road Neilston East Renfrewshire G78 3AG
Received 21 Jan 201924 Neidpath Road East Newton Mearns East Renfrewshire G46 6TX
Received 22 Jan 2019St Lukes High School 25 Springfield Road Barrhead East Renfrewshire G78 2SG
Received 23 Jan 2019Land To The East Of Balgraystone Road Barrhead
Received 23 Jan 2019Land To The East Of Balgraystone Road And South Of Springfield Road Barrhead
Received 23 Jan 201921 Paidmyre Crescent Newton Mearns East Renfrewshire G77 5AQ
Received 23 Jan 201939 Mallots View Newton Mearns East Renfrewshire G77 6FD
Received 23 Jan 201929 Norwood Drive Giffnock East Renfrewshire G46 7LS
Received 24 Jan 20193 Alyth Crescent Clarkston East Renfrewshire G76 8PF
Received 25 Jan 201916 Oakley Drive Netherlee East Renfrewshire G44 3PY
Received 25 Jan 201914 Dunglass Place Newton Mearns East Renfrewshire G77 6XS
Received 25 Jan 20197 McKelvie Crescent Barrhead East Renfrewshire G78 1LY
Received 25 Jan 201974 Ormonde Drive Netherlee East Renfrewshire G44 3RG
Received 28 Jan 201948 Primrose Avenue Newton Mearns East Renfrewshire G77 6FS
Received 28 Jan 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 East Renfrewshire, 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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