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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
Fife
Planning applications.
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Fife. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates5,999Searchable applications
524Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 4,742 approved or refused records
231Refused applications
4,511 approved · 231 refused · 235 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Mar 1996 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
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Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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Conservation areas48 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
- Decided09/01664/CFULL
Erection of 131 dwellinghouses and 60 bed residential care home
Land At Former Lochside Works Kinghorn Fife
Received 13 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01665/EFULL
Change of use of agricultural land to rubble recycling centre
Site Of Whinstone Quarry Baldinnie Fife
Received 14 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01666/CFULL
Installation of dormer extensions to dwellinghouse
14 Lina Street Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 5LA
Received 13 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01667/CFULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
31 Montgomery Drive Leven Fife KY8 4AQ
Received 14 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01668/CAPN
Prior notification for erection of agricultural building
Wester Strathore Dairy Strathore Farm Strathore Road Thornton Fife
Received 14 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01669/CFULL
Change of use of domestic workshop to commercial microbrewery (Class 5)
14 Kingsmill Drive Kennoway Leven Fife KY8 5LX
Received 14 Jul 2009 - Withdrawn09/01671/WFULL
Erection of two storey detached dwellinghouse
Pinewood Lodge 2 Main Street Crossford Dunfermline Fife KY12 8NJ
Received 14 Jul 2009 - Withdrawn09/01672/WFULL
Amendment to planning permission 09/00127/WFULL to reposition wind turbine and increase height from 15m to 25m
PiperPool Forrestmill West Of Saline Alloa Fife FK10 3QG
Received 14 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01673/EFULL
Conservatory extension to dwellinghouse
12 Westport Place Cupar Fife KY15 4AL
Received 14 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01674/PPP
Outline planning permission for erection of dwellinghouse
1 Fordlebank Pickletillum Drumoig St Andrews Fife KY16 0BU
Received 13 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01675/WFULL
Extension of time period of permission No. 04/02711/WFULL for alterations and 2 storey extension to dwellinghouse
3 Carlingnose Court North Queensferry Inverkeithing Fife KY11 1EP
Received 15 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01676/WADV
Display of 6 non-illuminated fascia and 6 non-illuminated poster signs and 2 internally illuminated projecting signs
Lower Floor 25 Queen Anne Street Dunfermline Fife KY12 7BA
Received 15 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01678/EFULL
Erection of 2 CCTV security cameras
St Andrews Harbour Shorehead St Andrews Fife KY16 9RG
Received 15 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01680/CFULL
Extension to rear of dwellinghouse
31 Beechwood Drive Glenrothes Fife KY7 6GE
Received 15 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01682/EFULL
Two storey rear extension to dwellinghouse
57 Westfield Avenue Cupar Fife KY15 5AA
Received 16 Jul 2009 - Withdrawn09/01683/WFULL
Erection of a detached two storey dwellinghouse with detached double garage
Inchyra Motors Low Causeway Culross Dunfermline Fife KY12 8HL
Received 16 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01684/WFULL
One and a half storey extension to side and balcony to rear of dwellinghouse
8 Balgreggie Park Auchterderran Lochgelly Fife KY5 0NQ
Received 16 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01685/WFULL
Erection of sunroom at Plot 92
New Farm Fields Site To The East Of Lochgelly Fife
Received 16 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01686/WFULL
Substitution of house type at Plot 130
New Farm Fields Site To The East Of Lochgelly Fife
Received 16 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01687/WDPN
Demolition of 3 tower blocks by controlled explosion
Land Adjacent Kincairne Court Sandeman Court Kincardine Fife
Received 15 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01688/CFULL
Alterations to frontage of public house
The Windsor Hotel 38-40 Victoria Road Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 1DR
Received 16 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01689/WFULL
Substitution of housetype on Plot 128
New Farm Fields Site To The East Of Lochgelly Fife
Received 16 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01690/WFULL
Substitution of housetype on plot 129
New Farm Fields Site To The East Of Lochgelly Fife
Received 16 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01691/CFULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
7 Barron Terrace Windygates Road Leven Fife KY8 4DL
Received 16 Jul 2009
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What these statistics cover
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Fife, 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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