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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
Falkirk
Planning applications.
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Falkirk. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates6,144Searchable applications
234Recorded as pending
96%Approval rate · 4,892 approved or refused records
207Refused applications
4,685 approved · 207 refused · 503 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 30 Jun 2012 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Council contacts
- Planning enquiries01324504950Council source
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Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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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
- DecidedP/20/0111/FUL
Installation of Modular Building for Use as Pre-School Nursery (Class 10 Non-Residential Institution)
Shieldhill Primary School Main Street Shieldhill Falkirk FK1 2HA
Received 10 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0113/FUL
Extension to Dwellinghouse
19 Pirleyhill Gardens Falkirk FK1 5NB
Received 10 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0115/FUL
Extension to Dwellinghouse
16 Abbots Road Grangemouth FK3 8JP
Received 10 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0116/FUL
Change of Use and Extension of Social Work Offices to Form Early Years Nursery with Associated External Works
Kinglass Centre Gauze Road Bo'ness EH51 9UE
Received 10 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0117/FUL
Change of use and Alterations to Shop to form Extension to Existing Restaurant and Hot Food Takeaway
2 Loanhead Avenue Grangemouth FK3 9ED
Received 10 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0118/75D
Discharge of Section 50 Agreement Under the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 on Planning Permission F/87/248, Which Restricted Occupation of the Dwellinghouse Approved Under That Permission to a Person Employed Full Time in Agriculture, and Dependants of that Person
Roallan Bonnybridge FK4 2HP
Received 10 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0119/FUL
Change of Use from Non-residential Institution (Class 10) to Office (Class 4)
Carrongrange House Carrongrange Avenue Stenhousemuir Larbert FK5 3BQ
Received 11 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0120/FUL
Alterations and Extension to Dwellinghouse
Stuc A Chroin 41 Waggon Road Brightons Falkirk FK2 0EL
Received 11 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0121/FUL
Extension to Dwellinghouse
Myothill House Denny FK6 5HH
Received 11 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0122/FUL
Extension to Dwellinghouse
2 Kenilworth Lane Grangemouth FK3 8RA
Received 11 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0123/FUL
Extension to Dwellinghouse
3 Hawley Road Falkirk FK1 1SH
Received 12 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0124/FUL
Extension to Dwellinghouse
14 Franklin Avenue Falkirk FK2 7FU
Received 12 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0125/FUL
Extension to Dwellinghouse
Redford House Avonbridge Falkirk FK2 0BT
Received 16 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0126/FUL
Erection of 5 Dwellinghouses
53 Old Redding Road Laurieston Falkirk FK2 9JU
Received 16 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0127/LBC
Replacement Windows
1 Princess Gate Slamannan Road Falkirk FK1 5BP
Received 16 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0128/CPL
Alteration to Dwellinghouse
25 Gilmours Place Larbert FK5 4XL
Received 17 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0129/FUL
Erection of 4 Flatted Dwellings
Land At Tygetshaugh Court Thistle Avenue Dunipace
Received 17 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0130/FUL
Extension to Dwellinghouse
7 Dundas Cottages Allandale Bonnybridge FK4 2HL
Received 19 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0132/LBC
Alterations and Conversion of Existing Offices (Class 2) to Form 4 Flatted Dwellings and Associated Car Parking (Amendment to P/19/0238/LBC)
Russel & Aitken 9 Cow Wynd Falkirk FK1 1PL
Received 19 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0133/PPP
Erection of Dwellinghouse and Associated Infrastructure
Land To The North West Of 1 Broom Farm Steading Falkirk
Received 19 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0134/FUL
Formation of Landscape Display Area, Erection of Office Building and Storage Building, Car Parking and Associated Infrastructure
Klondyke Garden Centre Burnside Nursery Polmont Falkirk FK2 0XS
Received 19 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0135/FUL
Change of Use of Public Open Space to Private Garden Ground and Extension to Dwellinghouse and Erection of Outbuilding
32 Belmont Avenue Shieldhill Falkirk FK1 2BS
Received 19 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0136/CPL
Extension to Dwellinghouse
2 Gardrum Place Brightons Falkirk FK2 0EX
Received 20 Mar 2020 - DecidedP/20/0137/FUL
Change of Use of Ground Floor Office (Class 4) to Flatted Dwelling
5 Penders Lane Falkirk FK1 5RR
Received 20 Mar 2020
Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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What these statistics cover
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Falkirk, 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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