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Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Fife. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.

Collected application statistics

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6,138Searchable applications
524Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 4,869 approved or refused records
242Refused applications

4,627 approved · 242 refused · 247 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.

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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.

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  1. Withdrawn15/04279/EIA

    Application for Planning Permission in Principle for a Mixed Use Development (Major) Comprising Residential Units (of which 20% are Affordable Units); Commercial (Bulky Goods Retail, Business, Hotel, Restaurant and Associated Hot Food Takeaway, Petrol Filling Station and Leisure Uses); Primary School; Green Network and Associated Open Space/ Recreational Land/Sports Pitches; a Relief Road and Associated Road Infrastructure

    Cupar North Cupar Fife

    Received 24 Dec 2015
  2. Withdrawn17/01686/EIA

    Residential development (approximately 340 residential units) with new roads and associated infrastructure, and including demolition of existing buildings at Wester Whitefield Farm

    Land To East Of Whitefield Road Dunfermline Fife

    Received 26 May 2017
  3. Awaiting decision18/03153/PPP

    Planning permission in principle for major residential development and associated works including car parking, landscaping, drainage and formation of new access

    Development Site At Motray Park Guardbridge Fife

    Received 2 Nov 2018
  4. Decided19/01725/PPP

    Planning Permission in Principle for residential development, open space areas, path and cycle network and associated development at Colton SDA

    Land To East Of A823 Wellwood Fife

    Received 18 Jun 2019
  5. Decided18/00295/NMV2

    Construction of secondary school (class 10) with associated facilities, including access, car parking / bus stance, playing fields / all weather pitches, footpath connection and temporary construction compound (Non Material Variation to amend hockey/football pitch from sand-filled artificial surface to 3G surface with rubber crumb infill with 42mm pile suitable for hockey/football to 18/00295/EIA)

    Land To West Andrew Melville Hall North Haugh St Andrews Fife

    Received 6 Mar 2020
  6. Decided21/02441/FULL

    Erection of 58 flatted dwellings (Sui Generis) including accomodation for over 55s only (22 flats) and extra care provision (36 flats), 6 dwellinghouses (Class 9) and a cafe (Class 3) including formation of a vehicular access and associated landscaping and infrastructure

    Land To The South East Of Morrisons Esplanade Kirkcaldy Fife

    Received 30 Jul 2021
  7. Withdrawn22/01166/RCC

    Roads Construction Consent

    Land To West Of Boreland Road Kirkcaldy Fife

    Received 11 Apr 2022
  8. Withdrawn22/01515/LBC

    Listed building consent for demolition of dwellinghouse

    Carron Lodge Strathkinness Low Road St Andrews Fife KY16 9TU

    Received 17 May 2022
  9. Decided19/03503/CND003

    Compliance with Condition 3 of Planning Permission 19/03503/ARC - BEFORE DEVELOPMENT STARTS ON SITE an updated landscaping drawing shall be submitted for the written approval of Fife Council as planning authority. This shall show the most up to date layout for the site, and boundary treatments as approved through Condition 2. The updated landscape plan shall also include the following:- the grasscrete and amenity grass along the south of the SUDS replaced with vegetation to grade into the hedgerow mix planting- The watercourse in the east running north-south shall be a combination of long and short vegetation and alternate shaded and open stretches.- The landscape plan shall corresponded with the tree protection plan, which shows the south west no development area as being a construction exclusion zone and completely protected with fencing. The existing habitat at that location shall be retained.The development shall be implemented in accordance with the details approved through this condition.

    Land To South Of Sappi Road Glenrothes Fife

    Received 27 May 2022
  10. Decided19/03503/CND005

    Compliance with Condition 5 of Planning Permission 19/03503/ARC -BEFORE ANY WORKS START ON SITE the developer shall submit details of mitigation and enhancement measures as identified within Section 7 of the Extended Phase 1 Habitat Survey by Acorna Ecology Ltd, dated June 2020, for the written approval of Fife Council as Planning Authority. Thereafter, the works shall be carried out in accordance with the approved mitigation measures unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Planning Authority

    Land To South Of Sappi Road Glenrothes Fife

    Received 27 May 2022
  11. Decided19/03503/CND008

    Compliance with Condition 8 of Planning Permission 19/03503/ARC -BEFORE ANY WORKS START ON SITE, the developer shall implement the tree protection measures outlined within the Arboricultural Method Statement by Acorna Ecology Ltd., dated June 2020, necessary to safeguard the trees on the site during development operations. The Planning Authority shall be formally notified in writing of the completion of such measures and no work on site shall commence until the Planning Authority has confirmed in writing that the measures as implemented are acceptable. The protective measures shall be retained in a sound and upright condition throughout the demolition/development operations and no building materials, soil or machinery shall be stored in or adjacent to the protected area, including the operation of machinery. As part of the measures, the developer shall appoint an arborist and details of the arboricultural supervision of the site shall be submitted with the above details, for prior written approval

    Land To South Of Sappi Road Glenrothes Fife

    Received 27 May 2022
  12. Decided19/03503/CND020

    Compliance with Condition 20 of Planning Permission 19/03503/ARC -BEFORE WORKS START ON SITE, an amended layout showing visitor or on-street parking designed so that it is not a hard-engineered approach, with the lines and geometry of the edges of the parking spaces flowing more naturally, shall be submitted for prior written approval. The works shall thereafter be carried out in accordance with the approved details

    Land To South Of Sappi Road Glenrothes Fife

    Received 27 May 2022
  13. Decided18/00078/CND004

    Compliance with Condition 4 of Planning Permission 18/00078/FULL - Archaeological

    Land At Seggie Farm Seggie Guardbridge Fife

    Received 27 May 2022
  14. Decided21/01254/CND025

    Compliance with Condition 25 of Planning Permission 21/01254/FULL- NO BUILDING SHALL BE OCCUPIED UNTIL remedial action at the site has been completed in accordance with the approved Remedial Action Statement. In the event that remedial action is unable to proceed in accordance with the approved Remedial Action Statement - or contamination not previously considered in either the Preliminary Risk Assessment or the Intrusive Investigation Report is identified or encountered on site - all development work on site (save for site investigation work) shall cease immediately and the planning authority shall be notified in writing within 2 working days. Unless otherwise agreed in writing with the local planning authority, development works shall not recommence until proposed revisions to the Remedial Action Statement have been submitted by the developer to and approved in writing by the planning authority. Remedial action at the site shall thereafter be completed in accordance with the approved revised Remedial Action Statement. Following completion of any measures identified in the approved Remedial Action Statement - or any approved revised Remedial Action Statement - a Verification Report shall be submitted by the developer to the local planning authority.Unless otherwise agreed in writing with the planning authority, no part of the site shall be brought into use until such time as the remedial measures for the whole site have been completed in accordance with the approved Remedial Action Statement - or the approved revised Remedial Action Statement - and a Verification Report in respect of those remedial measures has been submitted to and approved in writing by the local planning authority.

    4M Plant Den Road Kirkcaldy Fife

    Received 11 Jul 2022
  15. Decided22/02475/FULL

    Mixed-use (sui generis) development (part retrospective) comprising: siting of yurt for delivery of yoga classes; erection of outbuilding/part-use of grounds for delivery of therapy services; and erection of shed for purposes incidental to delivery of the therapy services

    The Foundry Charlestown Dunfermline Fife KY11 3DP

    Received 21 Jul 2022
  16. Decided21/01254/CND001

    Residential development of 105 units with associated SuDS, landscaping, parking and vehicular accessLand to south of Calender Avenue/Hayfield Road, Kirkcaldy - condition compliance - No more than 64 of the residential units hereby permitted to be constructed at the site shall be occupied until a continuous footpath connecting the pedestrian access at the south east of the application to the Dens Road greenspace (Dens Park) to the south west of the application site and to the grounds of Victoria Hospital to the west. The finalised route for the footpath connection shall be agreed in writing by the Planning Authority prior to the occupation of the 64th residential unit.

    4M Plant Den Road Kirkcaldy Fife

    Received 26 Sept 2022
  17. Withdrawn22/03454/PPP

    Planning permission in principle for erection of flatted residential development and formation of access (demolition of existing)

    St Margarets House Hilton Road Rosyth Dunfermline Fife KY11 2AZ

    Received 10 Oct 2022
  18. Unknown23/00487/PPP

    Planning permission in principle for erection of dwellinghouse and refurbishment of bothy

    Leckiebank Farm Leckiebank Road Auchtermuchty Cupar Fife KY14 7ED

    Received 24 Feb 2023
  19. Decided23/01093/FULL

    Change of use of caravan storage area (Class 6) to allow siting of 14 static holiday caravan pitches including formation of road and car parking with associated drainage infrastructure

    Annsmuir Caravan Park Annsmuir Cupar Fife KY15 7SA

    Received 25 Apr 2023
  20. Awaiting decision21/03948/CND002

    Compliance with Condition 2 of Planning Permission 21/03948/FULL - Prior to any works starting on the development site, visibility splays of 3m x 180m to the north east and 3m x 140m to the south shall be provided at the junction of the vehicular crossing and the public road and thereafter shall be maintained as such in perpetuity, clear of all obstructions exceeding 1.05 metres above the adjoining carriageway level, in accordance with the current Appendix G (Transportation Development Guidelines) of Making Fife's Places. For the avoidance of any doubt, the hedge bounding the adopted road/footway to the south, shall require to be cut back.

    Madeira Grangemuir Pittenweem Anstruther Fife KY10 2RB

    Received 25 May 2023
  21. Awaiting decision21/03948/CND003

    Compliance with Condition 3 of Planning Permission 21/03948/FULL - Prior to any works starting on the development site, visibility splays of 2m x 25m shall be provided to the west at the junction of the vehicular access from the car park area to the private access road as shown on the submitted 'Proposed Block Plan V3' drawing and thereafter it shall be maintained in perpetuity, clear of all obstructions exceeding 1.05 metres above the adjoining carriageway level, in accordance with the current Appendix G (Transportation Development Guidelines) of Making Fife's Places. For the avoidance of any doubt, the hedge bounding the adjacent field shall require to be cut back.

    Madeira Grangemuir Pittenweem Anstruther Fife KY10 2RB

    Received 25 May 2023
  22. Decided22/02717/CND007

    Condition 7 of 22/02717/FULL - Remediation Verification Plots 1 -10

    Land Adjacent To Main Street Car Park And South Of West Road Saline Fife

    Received 2 Jun 2023
  23. Awaiting decision23/02000/FULL

    Erection of 34 affordable dwellings (22 dwellinghouses (Class 9) and 12 flatted dwellings (Sui Generis)) with associated infrastructure including vehicular access, landscaping and open space

    Site Of Oakley Bowling Club Blairwood Terrace Oakley Fife

    Received 20 Jul 2023
  24. Decided23/03052/RCC

    Roads Construction Consent - construction of new road and associated works

    Land To East Of Whitefield Road Dunfermline Fife

    Received 30 Oct 2023

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