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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 dates6,812Searchable applications
525Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,471 approved or refused records
287Refused applications
5,184 approved · 287 refused · 317 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
- Decided26/00303/FULL
Installation of 2 no. replacement dormers to front of dwellinghouse
Rockcliffe Cottage Links Place Elie Leven Fife KY9 1AX
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Awaiting decision26/00304/FULL
Erection of 3 no. dwellings, formation of access, and associated works
Harleswynd Craighall Ceres Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00306/FULL
Erection of outbuilding and installation of replacement fencing to rear of flat (retrospective)
366 High Street Leslie Glenrothes Fife KY6 3AX
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00299/TEL
Notification of intention to install 4, 7m high poles - South of 63 and North-West of 75 Lomond Gardens, and South-West of 71 and West of 77 Pentland Place Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00307/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - North-West of 16-25 Invertiel Terrace, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00308/TEL
Notification of intention to install 3, 8m high poles - West of Abbotshall Parish Church and 63 Abbotshall Road, and South-West of 14-18 Cloanden Place, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00309/ADV
Display of 1 No. non-illuminated fascia sign
Campbells Coffee House And Eatery High Street Falkland Cupar Fife KY15 7BU
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00310/LBC
Listed building consent for repainting of shop front
Campbells Coffee House And Eatery High Street Falkland Cupar Fife KY15 7BU
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00311/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2, 8m high poles - West of 33 and North-West of 39 Seafield View, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided25/00990/CND001
Compliance with Condition 1 of Planning Permission 25/00990/ARC - PRIOR TO ANY WORKS COMMENCING ON SITE, a pre-construction survey for protected species shall be undertaken
Land To South Of Cocklaw Street Kelty Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided25/00990/CND002
Compliance with Condition 2 of Planning Permission 25/00990/ARC - PRIOR TO ANY WORKS COMMENCING ON SITE, a tree protection plan showing the locations of the tree protection barriers
Land To South Of Cocklaw Street Kelty Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided24/01407/NMV1
Erection of 44 affordable residential dwellings (36 Houses (Class 9) and 8 Flats (Sui Generis)) and other associated infrastructure including access, roads, parking, drainage, retaining walls and landscaping (Non-material Variation to 24/01407/FULL for updates to the road and pavement layout, addition of an external sprinkler tank and enclosure, updates to the location of retaining walls in the rear gardens, updates to final brick selection, door and roof tile colours, adjustment to window sizes and addition of PV Panels)
Land To The East Of Spittalfield Road Fraser Avenue Inverkeithing Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00312/CLP
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed for conversion of integral garage to habitable accommodation
29 Lochty Park Kinglassie Lochgelly Fife KY5 0YU
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00313/FULL
Dormer extension to dwellinghouse
80 Bay Road Wormit Newport On Tay Fife DD6 8LZ
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00314/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2, 8m high poles - South-East of 42 and South-West of 43 Cleish Gardens, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00315/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 10m high pole - South of 54 Barassie Drive, Ranfurly Gardens, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00316/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - South-West of 1 Blyth Court, Kilnburn, Newport-on-Tay
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00318/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 7m and a 9m high pole - North of 10 and North-West of 36/36A Ava Street, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00320/RCC
Roads Construction Consent
Land To West Of Boreland Road Kirkcaldy Fife
Received 2 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00323/TEL
Notification of intention to install 3, 8m and a 7m high pole - South-East of 49, North-West of 129 and South-East of 139 and 150 Greenloanings, Kirkcaldy
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 3 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00324/FULL
Installation of replacement windows, doors and rainwater goods to front and rear of dwellinghouse
25 Manse Road Markinch Glenrothes Fife KY7 6DX
Received 3 Feb 2026 - Decided23/00233/NMV1
Alterations and extension to rear of dwellinghouse (Non-material variation for a Householder Development to 23/00233/FULL)
27 Southerton Crescent Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 5ND
Received 3 Feb 2026 - Decided26/00325/FULL
Single storey extension to side of dwelling
Tinian Coach House Upper Main Street Newmills Dunfermline Fife KY12 8SU
Received 3 Feb 2026 - Decided20/02702/CDC1
Single storey extension to side of dwellinghouse - Completion of Development Certificate for 20/02702/FULL
Anchorage Cottage Denhead St Andrews Fife KY16 8PB
Received 3 Feb 2026
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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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