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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Fife. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
5,145 approved · 285 refused · 308 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Mar 1996 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
We haven’t verified direct planning guidance links for this authority yet. Use its official website in Council sources.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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.
12 Cameron Drive Falkland Cupar Fife KY15 7DL
Received 9 Dec 20255 Woodland Gait Cluny Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6NS
Received 9 Dec 20251 Leslie House Oak Avenue Leslie Glenrothes Fife KY6 3BE
Received 9 Dec 2025Drumoig Golf Driving Range Forgan Drive Drumoig St Andrews Fife KY16 0DW
Received 9 Dec 20258 Pinkerton Road Crail Anstruther Fife KY10 3UB
Received 10 Dec 2025Feddinch Mains Feddinch St Andrews Fife
Received 9 Dec 2025103 High Street Newburgh Cupar Fife KY14 6DA
Received 10 Dec 2025Leuchars Station Army Base Innes Road Leuchars St Andrews Fife KY16 0JX
Received 10 Dec 2025Land At Q3 Dunlin Drive Dunfermline Fife
Received 10 Dec 20252 The Cooperage East End Cellardyke Anstruther Fife KY10 3AW
Received 10 Dec 2025This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 10 Dec 2025Unit 3 West Dock Burntisland Industrial Estate Harbour Place Burntisland Fife KY3 9DW
Received 10 Dec 202512 The Links St Andrews Fife KY16 9JB
Received 10 Dec 202554 Crossgate Cupar Fife KY15 5HS
Received 10 Dec 202512 The Links St Andrews Fife KY16 9JB
Received 10 Dec 202554 Crossgate Cupar Fife KY15 5HS
Received 10 Dec 2025Wester Clatto Blebocraigs Cupar Fife KY15 5UE
Received 10 Dec 2025St Andrews Bowling Club 1 Pipeland Road St Andrews Fife KY16 8JN
Received 10 Dec 2025Elie And Earlsferry Town Hall 19 - 21 High Street Earlsferry Leven Fife KY9 1AF
Received 10 Dec 202531 - 33 South Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9QR
Received 10 Dec 202529 Kinkell Avenue Glenrothes Fife KY7 4QG
Received 10 Dec 2025Milford Lodge 5 Donaldson Gardens St Andrews Fife KY16 9DN
Received 10 Dec 20253 Gibson Place St Andrews Fife KY16 9JE
Received 10 Dec 20253 Gibson Place St Andrews Fife KY16 9JE
Received 10 Dec 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
Planning procedures in Scotland differ from those in England. Use the authority’s own guidance for application requirements, comments and decision timescales.
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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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