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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 dates6,032Searchable applications
524Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 4,773 approved or refused records
233Refused applications
4,540 approved · 233 refused · 237 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
- Decided09/01857/ADV
Display of one illuminated fascia sign (in retrospect)
PC World 20 Fife Central Retail Park Chapel Park Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6QL
Received 31 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01859/FULL
Installation of wind shelter/canopy to dwellinghouse
1 Weavers Crescent Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 5LN
Received 31 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01860/LBC
Listed building consent for alterations to frontage and installation of ATM machine
111 High Street Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 1LW
Received 31 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01864/FULL
Internal and external alterations
Kemback House Cupar Fife KY15 5TN
Received 30 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01865/FULL
Single storey extension to side and rear of dwellinghouse
33 Hawkcraig Road Aberdour Burntisland Fife KY3 0XB
Received 4 Aug 2009 - Decided09/01866/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
139 Primrose Avenue Rosyth Dunfermline Fife KY11 2TZ
Received 4 Aug 2009 - Decided09/01868/LBC
Listed building consent application for internal alterations to dwellinghouse
Helen Cottage Helen Place North Queensferry Inverkeithing Fife KY11 1JS
Received 3 Aug 2009 - Decided09/01867/FULL
Replacement bus shelter
Street Record Shore Street Anstruther Fife
Received 31 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01870/LBC
Listed building consent for internal and external alterations
Kemback House Cupar Fife KY15 5TN
Received 30 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01875/WFULL
Alterations to north and east elevations
The Alhambra Theatre 33 Canmore Street Dunfermline Fife KY12 7NX
Received 31 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01876/ADV
Erection of hoarding
Site At Main Street Guardbridge Fife
Received 30 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01877/FULL
Erection of single storey rear extension to dwellinghouse
7 Banknowe Drive Tayport Fife DD6 9LN
Received 31 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01878/FULL
Erection of shed workshop (Retrospective)
25 The Sweerie Newburgh Cupar Fife KY14 6DL
Received 4 Aug 2009 - Decided09/01879/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
41 Skibo Avenue Glenrothes Fife KY7 4PX
Received 3 Aug 2009 - Withdrawn09/01881/FULL
Lower ground and first floor extension to rear and dormer extension to rear
Dun Eideann 1A Seaside Place Aberdour Burntisland Fife KY3 0TX
Received 3 Aug 2009 - Decided09/01882/WADV
Display of neon projecting sign, display of 2 illuminated cast iron lamps and decorative neon illumination to frontage
The Alhambra Theatre 33 Canmore Street Dunfermline Fife KY12 7NX
Received 31 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01883/WLBC
Listed building consent for internal and external alterations, display of neon projecting sign, display of 2 illuminated cast iron lamps and decorative neon illumination to frontage
The Alhambra Theatre 33 Canmore Street Dunfermline Fife KY12 7NX
Received 31 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01884/ADV
Display of 2 illuminated totem signs
Fife Central Retail Park Chapel Park Kirkcaldy Fife
Received 3 Aug 2009 - Decided09/01885/PPP
Erection of a one and a half storey dwellinghouse
25 The Castings Dunfermline Fife KY12 9AU
Received 4 Aug 2009 - Decided09/01887/FULL
Change of use of public open space to garden ground
8 Middlefield Brae Cupar Fife KY15 4BX
Received 4 Aug 2009 - Decided09/01888/FULL
Environmental improvements including new road, pavement and parking layout and surfacing, new street furniture and replacement street lighting
Street Record Market Street St Andrews Fife
Received 31 Jul 2009 - Decided09/01889/FULL
Erection of balcony (in retrospect)
Barrie Keere 28 Wemyss Road Dysart Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 2XZ
Received 3 Aug 2009 - Decided09/01890/FULL
Erection of two storey rear extension and detached domestic garage with garden room
24 Balgeddie Park Glenrothes Fife KY6 3NY
Received 4 Aug 2009 - Decided09/01891/FULL
New boundary wall, replacement windows, rooflights, internal alterations and re-surfacing of driveway
Traquair West Port Falkland Cupar Fife KY15 7BW
Received 5 Aug 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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