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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 dates6,723Searchable applications
524Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,394 approved or refused records
284Refused applications
5,110 approved · 284 refused · 307 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
- Decided25/02928/TCA
4769 Pedunculate oak - Prune dead wood remove overhanging branches, 4770 Common Beech - Selective prune ranch rubbing against BT line and adjacent stubs, 4771 Pedunculate Oak - Remove hanging branches and selective prune dead wood over 10mm on path side of crown, 1889 Pedunculate Oak - Selective prune dead wood and broken branches over path, 4772 Tulip Tree - Selective prune dead wood and remove hanging branches, 4773 Tasmanian Blue Gum - Selective prune dead wood and remove hanging branches
Lochnagar 12 Lade Braes St Andrews Fife KY16 9ES
Received 22 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02929/CON
Hazardous Substances Consent - Storage of substances - Syngenta, Earls Road, Grangemouth
Falkirk Council Consultation Kincardine Fife
Received 22 Oct 2025 - Decided25/01048/NMV1
Erection of 49 affordable dwellings, open space and drainage infrastructure (Section 42 application to amend condition 13 of 23/02229/FULL - to substitute the delivery of the adopted footpath connection) (Non-material variation for external alterations to 25/01048/FULL)
Land To The South Of Tailabout Drive Tailabout Crescent Cupar Fife
Received 22 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02932/FULL
Erection of single domestic garage to front of dwellinghouse
Westmost House The Steading Main Road Gateside Cupar Fife KY14 7ST
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02933/CLP
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) for single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
117 Queensferry Road Rosyth Dunfermline Fife KY11 2PS
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02934/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
23 Beechbank Crescent Kelty Fife KY4 0LU
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided21/00091/NMV4
Application for approval of matters specified by condition 1(a), 1(e), 1(f), 1(g) and 1(h) and 2(a-ff) of 15/01823/EIA for residential development of up to 363 residential units (Non-material variation for window and internal alterations to House Type H (Colville) of 21/00091/ARC)
Land SW Of Younger Gardens Melville Road St Andrews Fife
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02936/FULL
Erection of domestic outbuilding
Carphin House Luthrie Cupar Fife KY15 4NX
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02937/FULL
Erection of industrial building (Class 5), formation of vehicular access, parking, landscaping, and associated works
Land East Of Cupar Road Ladybank Fife
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02938/TCA
Pollard 1 No. Lime tree, 1 No. Poplar tree and thin crown of 1 No. Holly tree
2 New Park Place St Andrews Fife KY16 9LL
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02939/FULL
External alterations to shop front including installation of replacement windows and doors, repainting, and installation of lighting
60 - 62 High Street Inverkeithing Fife KY11 1NN
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02940/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse and formation of raised deck
13 Gollet Way Torryburn Dunfermline Fife KY12 8SP
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Withdrawn25/02941/FULL
Erection of 29 flatted dwellings (Sui Generis) and formation of car parking with associated landscaping and works (demolition of existing building)
90 Campbell Street Dunfermline Fife KY12 0QL
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02942/LBC
Listed building consent for installation of replacement windows and door
27 North Castle Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9BG
Received 24 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02943/FULL
Change of use of ground floor offices (Class 4) to self-contained hostel accommodation (Class 7) (3 units + 1 staff accommodation unit), alterations to the existing building including new windows, render, cladding, rainwater goods, installation of air source heat pumps/solar panels, erection of three storey extension to rear and the erection of a single storey extension to the side (including partial demolition), formation of hardstanding, boundary treatments and associated landscaping.�
James Bank James Street Dunfermline Fife KY12 7QE
Received 24 Oct 2025 - Decided23/00594/CND004
Compliance with Condition 4 of Approved 23/00594/ARC - NO DEVELOPMENT SHALL COMMENCE ON SITE until the risk of actual or potential land contamination at the site has been investigated and a Preliminary Risk Assessment (Phase I Desk Study) has been submitted
Land To North Of Primrose Lane Whinnyburn Place Rosyth Fife
Received 24 Oct 2025 - Registered25/02945/RCC
Roads Construction Consent for new bridge crossing that connects 2 sections of new adoptable road being constructed under seperate applications
Land South Of Pitdinnie Farm Pitdinnie Road Cairneyhill Fife
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided19/03503/NMV8
Approval required by condition for the erection of 229 residential units for phase 2, 3 and 4, including construction of access roads, drainage and landscaping (15/04097/PPP) (Non Material Variation to change finish of Plot 133 from full facing brick (BF2, material palette code number 2) to full roughcast (BF4, material palette code number 4) to 19/03503/FULL)
Land To South Of Sappi Road Glenrothes Fife
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02946/OBL
Discharge of Planning Obligation - 01/91/0229P
Edenmuir Edentown Ladybank Cupar Fife KY15 7UH
Received 23 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02947/PPP
Planning permission in principle for erection of 2 dwellinghouses and associated works (following demolition of the existing property)
2 Victoria Road Lundin Links Leven Fife KY8 6AX
Received 24 Oct 2025 - Withdrawn25/02948/FULL
Change of use of storage building to form self contained ancillary accommodation including installation of boundary fence
Blair Cottage Rintoul Avenue Blairhall Dunfermline Fife KY12 9HG
Received 24 Oct 2025 - Decided25/01048/CND001
Compliance with Condition 1 of Planning Permission 25/01048/FULL - CEMP
Land To The South Of Tailabout Drive Tailabout Crescent Cupar Fife
Received 24 Oct 2025 - Decided25/02949/FULL
Single storey extension to front and side of dwellinghouse
5 Lindsay Gardens St Andrews Fife KY16 8XB
Received 24 Oct 2025 - Decided22/01753/CDC1
Change of use from public open space to private garden ground and external alterations to dwellinghouse including single storey extension to rear of property and erection of fence (Completion of Development Certificate for 22/01753/FULL)
130 Overton Mains Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 3JP
Received 22 Oct 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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