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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 Fife. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,595 approved · 239 refused · 244 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Baird & Co North House North Street Glenrothes Fife KY7 5NA
Received 20 Aug 2009Blaeberry Cottage Berryhill Farm Cupar Fife KY14 6HZ
Received 24 Aug 2009Ogilvie Cottage Ferry Road Earlsferry Leven Fife KY9 1AJ
Received 24 Aug 2009Hillcrest Inverkeithing Road Aberdour Burntisland Fife KY3 0RS
Received 24 Aug 2009102 Blackcraigs Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6TN
Received 21 Aug 200916 Woodland Gait Cluny Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6NS
Received 21 Aug 20090 Kirk Wynd Kirkcaldy Fife
Received 21 Aug 2009Craigmount Hill Street Inverkeithing Fife KY11 1AB
Received 24 Aug 2009Kinkell Braes Caravan Park Anstruther Road St Andrews Fife KY16 8PX
Received 24 Aug 200911 Woodlands Crescent Leven Fife KY8 5AN
Received 21 Aug 200943 Glenlyon Road Leven Fife KY8 4AA
Received 21 Aug 200911 Townhall Street Inverkeithing Fife KY11 1LX
Received 25 Aug 200987 Bighty Avenue Glenrothes Fife KY7 5AE
Received 24 Aug 2009143-145 High Street Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 1LR
Received 24 Aug 2009Glenorchy Links Road Leven Fife KY8 4HP
Received 24 Aug 20095 Craigie Place Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6JQ
Received 24 Aug 200929 Kilnburn Newport On Tay Fife DD6 8DE
Received 24 Aug 2009Oakbank 91 Rose Street Dunfermline Fife KY12 0QT
Received 26 Aug 200920 And 22 St Leonards Place Kinghorn Fife
Received 25 Aug 2009Boots Chemists 11 Fife Central Retail Park Chapel Park Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6QL
Received 25 Aug 2009Ramornie South Lodge Cupar Fife KY15 7TL
Received 25 Aug 2009Raytheon Systems Ltd Queensway Industrial Estate Fullerton Road Glenrothes Fife KY7 5PY
Received 25 Aug 2009Beach House 25 St James Place Kinghorn Burntisland Fife KY3 9SU
Received 25 Aug 20091 Ceres Road Cupar Fife KY15 5JT
Received 26 Aug 2009Records 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 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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