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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 dates6,625Searchable applications
524Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,304 approved or refused records
277Refused applications
5,027 approved · 277 refused · 299 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Conservation areas48 mapped area records
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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
- Decided25/02199/FULL
Change of use of 7 holiday caravan pitches to residential pitches (amendment to planning permission 06/03457/EFULL) (in retrospect)
Cairnsmill Caravan Park Cairnsmill St Andrews Fife KY16 8NN
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02200/FULL
Change of use of three residential caravan pitches to holiday pitches (amendment to planning permission 07/02346/EFULL) (in retrospect)
Cairnsmill Caravan Park Cairnsmill St Andrews Fife KY16 8NN
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02201/FULL
Change of use of residential caravan pitch to holiday pitch (amendment to planning permission 09/02389/FULL) (in retrospect)
Cairnsmill Caravan Park Cairnsmill St Andrews Fife KY16 8NN
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02202/FULL
Substitution of housetype to Plots 1-6 and 15-27 19 and associated works (Amendment to 23/00346/ARC)
Land To South Of Main Street Coaltown Of Wemyss Fife
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02204/LBC
Listed building consent for internal alterations to dwellinghouse
Foresters Lodge Leslie Mains Glenrothes Fife KY6 3ER
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02205/APN
Prior Notification for Farm-related Building Works (Non-residential) - Erection of general purpose agricultural building and stock tunnels
Elmwood College Farm Cupar Muir Fife
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02206/TCA
Felling of 3no. sycamore, crown reduction to 1no. elm and 1no. sycamore
Wester Park Liberty Elie Fife KY9 1AU
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02212/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2, 8m, and 2, 9m high poles - South-East of 39 and North-West of 61 Solway Place, South-West of 2 Striven Place and North-East 153 South Parks Road, Glenrothes
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02213/CON
Section 36 Consent Consultation for ECU00005104 as per the Electricity Act 1989 for installation of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and associated infrastructure with a generating capacity of up to 60MW located on Land North-East of Leslie (Roaring Hill)
Scottish Government Consultation Fife
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02214/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - North-West of 75 Craigside Road, Woodend, Auchterderran
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/00968/CND001
Compliance with Condition 1 of Listed Building Consent 25/00968/LBC - BEFORE ANY STONE CLEANING COMMENCES, photographic evidence of the trial cleaning areas on the facade of the building shall be submitted to the Planning Authority.
Madras College South Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9EJ
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02215/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 10m and an 8m high pole - Opposite 117 Craigside Road and Outside 10 Woodside Terrace, Cardenden
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02217/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2, 9m and an 8m high pole - South of 111-117, West of 50-56 and Opposite 53 Kirkburn Drive, Bowhill
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02219/PN
Prior Approval for parapets alterations on road bridge over the railway line - Overbridge 090/118 Bailies Bridge Glenrothes
Overbridge 090/118 Bailies Bridge Glenrothes Fife
Received 4 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02220/FULL
Formation of vehicular access
Ladybank Sawmills Cupar Road Ladybank Fife
Received 5 Aug 2025 - Withdrawn25/02221/FULL
Installation of two EV charging points
The Engine Shed At The Linen Quarter Winterthur Lane Dunfermline Fife KY12 7BD
Received 5 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02222/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 10m and a 9m high pole - North-East of 5 Jamphlars Road and 1 Wallsgreen Gardens, Cardenden
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 5 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02223/FULL
External alterations to dwellinghouse
7 West Shore St Monans Anstruther Fife KY10 2BS
Received 6 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02224/LBC
Listed building consent for external and internal alterations to dwellinghouse
7 West Shore St Monans Anstruther Fife KY10 2BS
Received 6 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02226/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 10m high pole - Opposite 78 Laurence Park, Kinglassie
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 5 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02227/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2, 9m high poles - South-West of 11 Wallsgreen Gardens and North of 18 Wallsgreen Road, Bowhill
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 5 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02228/FULL
Repairs to chimney
37 High Street Newburgh Cupar Fife KY14 6AH
Received 6 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02229/FULL
Installation of lighting to drive and new paving to vehicle waiting area (23/02503/FULL & 23/02504/LBC)
92 Hepburn Gardens St Andrews Fife KY16 9LN
Received 6 Aug 2025 - Decided25/02230/LBC
Listed Building Consent for installation of lighting to drive and new paving to vehicle waiting area (23/02503/FULL & 23/02504/LBC)
92 Hepburn Gardens St Andrews Fife KY16 9LN
Received 6 Aug 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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