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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 dates6,539Searchable applications
524Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,229 approved or refused records
269Refused applications
4,960 approved · 269 refused · 288 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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
- Decided25/01947/TPO
Request to carry out tree works - Reduce total height by 1/3 and crown width by 3m to 1 x Tilia x europaea (Lime) - (T1)TPO W0011-T006
36 Broomhead Park Dunfermline Fife KY12 0PT
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01948/TPO
Request to carry out tree works - to carry out various works (mainly safety works) including felling up to 3 trees over next 5 yearsTPO E0085
St Andrews Links Trust Pilmour Cottage Old Guardbridge Road St Andrews Fife KY16 9SF
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01949/FULL
Part change of use of ruinous steading to dwellinghouse (Class 9) and associated works including installation of new windows, doors, dormers and rooflights (Retrospective)
The Steading Colton Farm Colton Dunfermline Fife KY12 0RU
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01950/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - Outside 54/56 Keirs Brae, Cardenden
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 4 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01389/NMV1
External alterations including installation of refrigeration plant (Non Material Variation for big foot system as plant mounting system in place of a concrete plinth to 25/01389/FULL)
Booker Ltd Pitreavie Crescent Pitreavie Business Park Dunfermline Fife KY11 8PU
Received 4 Jul 2025 - Decided14/02422/NMV1
Change of use of existing offices (Class 4) to two dwellinghouses (Class 9) with associated off street parking and alterations to three mews houses (amendment to planning permission 11/04436/FULL) (Non Material Variation to remove projecting bay from ground floor extension (No.7), and alter window types to bar area to rear of 14/02422/FULL)
5 - 7 Comely Park Dunfermline Fife KY12 7HU
Received 4 Jul 2025 - Decided24/03196/NMV1
Erection of 4 dwellinghouses including formation of access, car parking and associated drainage and landscape infrastructure (Section 42 application to vary Condition 5 of 23/02336/FULL in relation to car parking) (Non-material variation for external alterations to 24/03196/FULL)
Kinburn Castle Doubledykes Road St Andrews Fife
Received 4 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01954/TCA
Crown lift Sycamores, Beeches and Holly trees
11A Transy Place Dunfermline Fife KY12 7QN
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01955/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2, 9m and an 8m high pole - South of Oast House Car Park, Lorne Court, North-West of 108 Broom Road, and North of 13 Clyde Court, Glenrothes
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 4 Jul 2025 - Awaiting decision25/01956/FULL
Change of use from care home (Class 10) to hotel (Class 7) (96 rooms) including bar and restaurant, and external alterations including erection of extensions, alterations to access, landscaping, and associated works.
Gibson House Argyle Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9BP
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01957/CLP
Certificate of lawfulness (proposed) for installation of replacement windows
Second Floor Flat 27 South Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9QR
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01958/FULL
Erection of domestic shed, and formation of retaining wall to form raised terrace (retrospective)
26 Bramble Drive Inverkeithing Fife KY11 1FA
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01959/LBC
Listed building consent for installation of replacement windows
Second Floor Flat 27 South Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9QR
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01960/ARC
Application for Approval of Matters Required By Condition of planning permission in principle 23/00306/PPP for the erection of two dwellinghouses
Land At Junction Of Herriot Crescent And Kirkland Road Methil Fife
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01962/FULL
External alterations to dwellinghouse
11 School Hill Leuchars St Andrews Fife KY16 0HG
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01963/LBC
Listed building consent for internal and external alterations, including partial demolition, erection of extensions and alterations to boundary walls
Gibson House Argyle Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9BP
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01964/FULL
Erection of manufacturing facility (Class 5) and associated works including formation of vehicular access, SUDS basin, car parking and landscaping and installation of plant
Sips Eco Panels 1 Boston Road Viewfield Industrial Estate Glenrothes Fife KY6 2RE
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01965/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
41 Daviot Road Dunfermline Fife KY12 7LY
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01966/CLP
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) for single storey extension to front of dwellinghouse
Corner Cottage Elie Estate Elie Leven Fife KY9 1ER
Received 8 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01967/LBC
Listed Building Consent for replacement windows to rear of dwelling
16 Buchanan Street Dunfermline Fife KY12 7PG
Received 3 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01968/TEL
Notification of intention to install an 8.5m high pole - Outside 11 Dovecot Road, Glenrothes
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided24/01670/CND002
Compliance with Condition 2 of Planning Permission 24/01670/FULL - Landscaping Details
Cupar Muir Sawmill Quarry Road Cupar Muir Cupar Fife KY15 5QP
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided25/01969/TEL
Notification of intention to install a cabinet - South of 1 Douglas Drive, Crossford
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 7 Jul 2025 - Decided24/02700/CND002
Compliance with Condition 2 of Planning Permission 24/02700/FULL - Cross-sectional plans
Century House 100 Hepburn Gardens St Andrews Fife KY16 9LT
Received 7 Jul 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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