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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 dates5,924Searchable applications
524Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 4,672 approved or refused records
225Refused applications
4,447 approved · 225 refused · 230 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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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
- Decided09/01481/ELBC
Listed Building Consent for internal and external alterations to public house and flat to form two flatted properties
Old Castle Tavern South Castle Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9PL
Received 25 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01482/WFULL
Change of use of post office/shop to cafe and sandwich bar
61 Bank Street Lochgelly Fife KY5 9QL
Received 24 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01483/EFULL
Erection of conservatory
Scotscraig 62C Main Street Strathkinness St Andrews Fife KY16 9SA
Received 23 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01484/EFULL
Alterations to dwelling including installation of French doors and Velux rooflights
9 Rustic Place Crail Road Anstruther Fife KY10 3EP
Received 24 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01485/EFULL
Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse
70 Pickford Crescent Cellardyke Anstruther Fife KY10 3AT
Received 24 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01486/EFULL
Erection of conservatory
Uthrogle Mills Cupar Fife KY15 4PD
Received 24 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01487/EFULL
Installation of new play area, trim trail, fitness zone, mini skatepark and eco shelter
Letham Playing Field The Row Letham Cupar Fife KY15 7RS
Received 24 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01488/EFULL
Conversion of meeting hall to dwellinghouse, installation of new windows and replacement of existing windows, remove cement render and repoint and erection of extension
20 Greenside Place St Andrews Fife KY16 9TH
Received 24 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01489/EFULL
Erection of conservatory
31 Braehead Cupar Fife KY15 4BG
Received 24 Jun 2009 - Withdrawn09/01490/EFULL
Erection of dwellinghouse in garden ground
34 West End St Monans Anstruther Fife KY10 2BX
Received 24 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01491/CFULL
Installation of rooflights
Adam Smith College Stenton Road Glenrothes Fife KY6 2RA
Received 22 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01492/EIA
Extraction of sand, gravel and hard rock (dolerite) including extension into agricultural land to north and revised method of working and restoration works involving the formation of waterbody
Lomond Quarry Falkland Hills Road Balsillie Avenue Leslie Glenrothes Fife KY6 3HD
Received 23 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01493/FULL
Formation of fishery centre incorporating entertainment areas, office, boathouse and managers flat and formation of 4 acre pond with new access road and landscaping
Proposed Fishery Centre Balmule Valley Fife
Received 25 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01494/WFULL
Erection of split level two storey dwellinghouse
Land 25m To East Of 28 Carnock Road Dunfermline Fife
Received 25 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01495/WFULL
Single storey extension to side of dwellinghouse incorporating a replacement single domestic garage
72 Fairways Dunfermline Fife KY12 0DX
Received 25 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01496/WFULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse and erection of single domestic garage
39 Montrose Crescent Lochore Lochgelly Fife KY5 8EA
Received 25 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01497/WFULL
Erection of external storage building
Benore Care Centre Lochleven Road Lochore Lochgelly Fife KY5 8HU
Received 25 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01498/WARM
Residential development comprising 27 No. flatted dwellings and a commercial unit
Land At South Pier St Davids Harbour Harbour Place Dalgety Bay Fife
Received 25 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01500/WFULL
Single storey extension and erection of boundary wall to front of dwellinghouse
53 Kirk Brae Kincardine Alloa Fife FK10 4PY
Received 26 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01501/EFULL
Erection of conservatory
Pitcairlie House South Of Newburgh Cupar Fife KY14 6BX
Received 26 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01502/ELBC
Listed building consent for erection of conservatory
Pitcairlie House South Of Newburgh Cupar Fife KY14 6BX
Received 26 Jun 2009 - Withdrawn09/01503/EFULL
-Replace existing street lighting Columns Nos 1-6 and install one additional column
0 Newtown Cupar Fife
Received 26 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01504/ELBC
Listed building consent for extension and internal alterations
59 Argyle Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9BX
Received 26 Jun 2009 - Decided09/01505/CFULL
Single storey extensions to side and rear of dwellinghouse
6 Hallfields Place Kennoway Leven Fife KY8 5HH
Received 23 Jun 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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