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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 dates6,345Searchable applications
524Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,056 approved or refused records
255Refused applications
4,801 approved · 255 refused · 267 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Mar 1996 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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More application records
- Decided25/01589/TEL
Notification of intention to install 3, 8m high poles - Outside The Witches Tower and Honeyfield, Crombie Point
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 2 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01590/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - South-West of 2 Spence Avenue, Burntisland
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 2 Jun 2025 - Decided24/02510/CND002
Compliance with Condition 2 of Planning Permission 24/02510/FULL- Hedge Planting
Snug Within Mount Melville Craigtoun St Andrews Fife KY16 8NT
Received 2 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01591/CON
Planning Application Consultation Request for Application No 25/00766/42L - S42 application to vary condition 1 (in accordance with plans) of permission 15/00562/FLL - Greenhead Farmhouse, the Arnot Estate, Leslie, Glenrothes, KY6 3JQ
Perth And Kinross Council Consultation Abernethy Road Newburgh Fife
Received 2 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01592/CON
Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 - Part 4 Marine Lincensing -MS-00011156 - Fairhurst - Revetments Repair Levenmouth Demonstration Turbine. RESPONSE DUE 10 JUNE 2025
Scottish Government Consultation Fife
Received 2 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01593/ADV
Display of non-illuminated fascia sign and externally illuminated projecting sign
20 Crossgate Cupar Fife
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Registered25/01594/LBC
Listed building consent for alterations to existing signage
20 Crossgate Cupar Fife
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Withdrawn25/01595/PPP
Planning permission in principle for the erection of a dwellinghouse
Cults Farm Cult Saline Dunfermline Fife KY12 9TB
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01596/FULL
Two storey extension to side of dwellinghouse
25 Thimblehall Drive Dunfermline Fife KY12 7RH
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01597/LBC
Listed building consent for installation of replacement windows
20 St Leonards Hill Dunfermline Fife KY11 3AH
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01598/FULL
Erection of detached domestic garage to rear of flatted dwelling
45 Leadside Crescent Wellwood Dunfermline Fife KY12 0NS
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01600/LBC
Listed building consent for internal and external alterations to shop
Forgan House The Links St Andrews Fife KY16 9JB
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01601/FULL
Alterations to shopfront
Forgan House The Links St Andrews Fife KY16 9JB
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01602/FULL
External alterations including installation of replacement plant equipment and associated work
193 - 195 Dunearn Drive Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6LE
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01603/FULL
Porch extension to front of dwellinghouse
Clachanbeag Priory Road Gauldry Newport On Tay Fife DD6 8RT
Received 28 May 2025 - Decided25/01604/FULL
Formation of vehicular access and erection of wall/fence to front of dwellinghouse
66 Queensferry Road Rosyth Dunfermline Fife KY11 2PQ
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01605/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse and formation of hardstanding
Burn House Collessie Brae Collessie Cupar Fife KY15 7RQ
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01606/FULL
Installation of replacement plant equipment and associated works
The Cooperative Foodstore 46 Bank Street Lochgelly Fife KY5 9QN
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01607/FULL
Alterations and extension including single-storey and two-storey extensions to sides of dwellinghouse
1 Canongate St Andrews Fife KY16 8RT
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01608/FULL
Erection of garden room to rear of dwellinghouse
102 Barry Road Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6JL
Received 3 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01612/FULL
Erection of storage and maintenance building, formation of hardstanding and parking and access thereto, and associated development
Glenrothes Golf Club Golf Course Road Glenrothes Fife KY6 2LA
Received 4 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01613/FULL
Installation of dormer extensions to rear and side of dwellinghouse
18 Main Road Steelend Dunfermline Fife KY12 9LX
Received 4 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01616/FULL
Substitution of house type on plot 1, erection of electrical substation, and alterations to boundary treatments (amendment to planning permission reference 22/02607/ARC)
Land To North Of Primrose Lane Whinnyburn Place Rosyth Fife
Received 4 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01617/FULL
Erection of replacement fence to side of dwellinghouse
1 Bramble Drive Inverkeithing Fife KY11 1FA
Received 4 Jun 2025
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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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