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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 dates6,388Searchable applications
524Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,096 approved or refused records
256Refused applications
4,840 approved · 256 refused · 270 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
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
- Decided25/01692/CLP
Certificate of lawfulness (proposed) in respect of siting of single-unit mobile home as residential accommodation ancillary to house (Class 9)
7 Mcintosh Gardens Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6RE
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01693/FULL
Formation of memorial garden
1 East Street St Monans Anstruther Fife KY10 2AT
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01694/FULL
Installation of plant and equipment
Strathmiglo W W T W Easter Cash Strathmiglo Cupar Fife KY14 7RH
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01697/APN
Prior notification for formation of agricultural hardstanding area
Waulkmill Farm Waulkmill Steading Dunfermline Fife KY12 8JU
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01699/ADV
Display of internally illuminated ATM signage
6 Link Road Oakley Dunfermline Fife KY12 9RU
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01700/FULL
Alterations to shopfront including installation of ATM
6 Link Road Oakley Dunfermline Fife KY12 9RU
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01701/CLP
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) for alterations to roof, convert windows to sliding doors and infill door
14 Prospect Terrace Newport On Tay Fife DD6 8AW
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01702/APN
Prior Notification for erection of 4 cattle sheds and associated roadways
Hill Of Beath Farm Netherbeath Road Crossgates Fife
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01703/FULL
Erection of domestic shed
Old Church House 3A School Wynd Pittenweem Anstruther Fife KY10 2PN
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01707/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 10m high pole - Links Place, Leven
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided24/01670/CND003
Compliance with Condition 3 of Planning Permission 24/01670/FULL - Buddleia removal
Cupar Muir Sawmill Quarry Road Cupar Muir Cupar Fife KY15 5QP
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided24/01963/NMV3
Erection of 27 flatted dwellings with associated infrastructure, access, parking and landscaping (Section 42 to vary conditions 8 and 9 of planning reference 23/00589/FULL with regards to the provision of off street car parking) (Non-material variation for alterations to retaining wall, parking layout, finishing materials, landscaping, fencing, and other amendments to 24/01963/FULL)
Vacant Land West Of Viewforth Place Burntisland Road Kinghorn Fife
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided24/02453/CND008
Compliance with Condition 8 of Planning Permission 24/02453/FULL - Public Art
Land To North Of 27 Queens Meadow Coaltown Of Balgonie Fife
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided24/01670/CND004
Compliance with Condition 4 of Planning Permission 24/01670/FULL - Ecology Survey
Cupar Muir Sawmill Quarry Road Cupar Muir Cupar Fife KY15 5QP
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Withdrawn22/01430/NMV1
Erection of dwellinghouse (demolition of existing garage) (Non-material variation for change of cladding and roofing materials, and reduction in footprint of building to 22/01430/FULL)
Land And Garage Adjacent To Blacks Corner 1 Castle Street Arncroach Fife
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided24/01670/CND005
Compliance with Condition 5 of Planning Permission 24/01670/FULL - Construction and Environmental Management Plan
Cupar Muir Sawmill Quarry Road Cupar Muir Cupar Fife KY15 5QP
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01708/TPO
Request to carry out tree works to 1No. Scott's Pine and 2No. Maple TreesTPO - C0021 W1
Dunnikier Chalet Park Dunnikier Way Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 3PL
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided24/01670/CND006
Compliance with Condition 6 of Planning Permission 24/01670/FULL - Ecology Enhancements
Cupar Muir Sawmill Quarry Road Cupar Muir Cupar Fife KY15 5QP
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided24/01670/CND007
Compliance with Condition 7 of Planning Permission 24/01670/FULL - Path
Cupar Muir Sawmill Quarry Road Cupar Muir Cupar Fife KY15 5QP
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Awaiting decision24/01670/CND013
Compliance with Condition 13 of Planning Permission 24/01670/FULL - Site Clearance
Cupar Muir Sawmill Quarry Road Cupar Muir Cupar Fife KY15 5QP
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01710/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - South-East of 30 Woodend Place, Cowdenbeath
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01711/CON
The Electricity Works (Environmental Impact Assessment) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 Application for consent under Section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 for the proposed West Springfield Solar PV and Battery Energy Storage
Scottish Government Consultation Fife
Received 11 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01713/LBC
Listed building consent for installation of solar panels, replacement extension door, ev charge point and insulation improvements to dwellinghouse
Cairntoul Strathore Road Strathore Thornton Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 4DL
Received 12 Jun 2025 - Decided25/01714/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
24 Webster Place Rosyth Dunfermline Fife KY11 2TU
Received 12 Jun 2025
Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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