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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 dates6,806Searchable applications
525Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,467 approved or refused records
287Refused applications
5,180 approved · 287 refused · 315 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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
- Decided26/00230/FULL
Change of use from residential care facility (Class 8) to 3 no. dwellinghouses (Class 9)
103 Veronica Crescent Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 2LJ
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided19/03653/NMV1
Erection of 73 dwellings as well as associated works including: construction of access, roads and parking; drainage; landscaping and erection of walling and fencing (Non-material Variation to replace low plot walls with hedges to planning permission 19/03653/FULL)
Viewforth High School Loughborough Road Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 3DE
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00231/LBC
Listed Building Consent for installation of an automated teller machine
6 High Street Leven Fife KY8 4LZ
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided24/02999/CND002
Compliance with Condition 2 of Planning Permission 24/02999/FULL - Road Design Layout and Construction
Argos Youth Centre Appin Crescent Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6EJ
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided24/02999/CND004
Compliance with Condition 4 of Planning Permission 24/02999/FULL - Footway
Argos Youth Centre Appin Crescent Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6EJ
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00232/LBC
Listed Building Consent for installation of replacement windows, doors, rooflight, vents, downpipes and roof slates
Brankstone Lodge Brankstone Grange Brankstone Blairhall Alloa Fife FK10 3QD
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00233/FULL
Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse
10 St Colme Drive Dalgety Bay Dunfermline Fife KY11 9LQ
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided24/02999/CND005
Compliance with Condition of Planning Permission 24/02999/FULL - Visibility Splays
Argos Youth Centre Appin Crescent Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6EJ
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00235/FULL
Installation of surface water drainage infrastructure (associated with planning application 25/01404/FULL) and alterations to existing detention basin (as approved through planning application 21/02770/FULL).
Lochgelly Public Park Melville Street Lochgelly Fife
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00236/LBC
Listed building consent for installation of replacement streetlights
Anstruther Harbour Shore Street Anstruther Fife
Received 29 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00238/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m and an 8m high pole - North-West of 34/36 and South of 64 Thornhill Drive, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00239/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - North-East of 24 Nicol Street, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided24/02999/CND003
Compliance with Condition 3 of Planning Permission 24/02999/FULL - Vehicular Access
Argos Youth Centre Appin Crescent Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6EJ
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00240/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - West of 37 Moffat Crescent, Lochgelly
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00241/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2, 9m high poles - West of 36 Robert Street and North-West of 26 Union Street, Newport On Tay
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00242/TEL
Notification of intention to upgrade base station
Telecommunications Mast South Of 366 High Street Methil Fife
Received 28 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00244/ADV
Display of non-illuminated wall and window signs to front, sides and rear of store
Tesco Supermarket 174 Queensferry Road Rosyth Dunfermline Fife KY11 2JF
Received 29 Jan 2026 - Decided25/00645/NMV1
Porch extension to front of dwellinghouse and installation of new windows (Non Material Variation to change to window specification)to 25/00645/FULL)
Camas Inas 3 Main Street Kilconquhar Leven Fife KY9 1LF
Received 29 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00247/FULL
Alterations to form self contained flatted dwelling (sui generis)
1 Inchkeith Court Glenrothes Fife KY7 6RX
Received 29 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00248/FULL
Formation of vehicle access to front of flatted dwelling
9 Mid Road Kinghorn Burntisland Fife KY3 9UY
Received 29 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00249/FULL
Alterations and extension to dwellinghouse
Carvenom House Carvenom Carnbee Anstruther Fife KY10 3JU
Received 29 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00250/FULL
Erection of dwellinghouse (Class 9) and associated development (revised scheme to that with planning permission 08/03538/CFULL) (part-retrospective)
74 North Street Leslie Glenrothes Fife KY6 3DN
Received 30 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00251/TEL
Notification of intention to upgrade base station - Mast site at Randolph Industrial Estate, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 29 Jan 2026 - Decided26/00252/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - South of Arnold Clark Peugeot, Caxton Place, Mitchelston Industrial Estate, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 29 Jan 2026
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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