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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 dates7,212Searchable applications
531Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,826 approved or refused records
310Refused applications
5,516 approved · 310 refused · 355 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Mar 1996 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
- Decided24/00211/NMV1
Change of use from church (Class 10) to two dwellinghouses (Class 9) and installation of balcony - Non-material variation for external alterations to 24/00211/FULL
Strathkinness Parish Church Church Road Strathkinness St Andrews Fife KY16 9XR
Received 2 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02677/TEL
Removal of existing 18.50m monopole to be replaced with a 22.50m pole
Telecommunications Mast Toll Park Station Road Buckhaven Fife
Received 2 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02678/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
10 Scoonie Crescent Leven Fife KY8 4SW
Received 2 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02697/TCA
4 whitebeam - Crown reduction
1 West Port Court Bridge Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9FB
Received 5 Oct 2026 - Registered25/00311/CND015
Compliance with Condition 15 of planning permission 25/00311/CON - No Commencement of Development until a definition of a Knockhill Rcaing Circuit event has been submitted�WEB-08440137
Land At Outh Muir Knockhill Fife
Received 6 Oct 2026 - Registered25/00311/CND022
Compliance with Condition 22 of planning permission 25/00311/CON - No Commencement of Development until details of the proposed Off-Street Parking Areas for Contractor's vehicles submittedAddress :- Land adjacent to Knockhill Racing Circuit, Dunfermline, KY12 9TF
Land At Outh Muir Knockhill Fife
Received 6 Oct 2026 - Registered25/00311/CND024
Compliance with Condition 24 of planning permission 25/00311/CON - Construction Traffic Management Plan
Land At Outh Muir Knockhill Fife
Received 6 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02720/TEL
Notification of intention to install high poles1 X 9m - near 24 East Scores, St Andrews, KY16 9BE1 X 8m - near 1 Marine Place, St Andrews, KY16 9PP
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 7 Oct 2026 - Registered25/00311/CND032
Compliance with Condition 32 of Planning Permission 25/00311/CON - No Commencement of Development until an Archaeological written scheme of investigation and programme of archaeological works has been submitted
Land At Outh Muir Knockhill Fife
Received 6 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02721/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 1 X 10m high pole - 1 Carden Avenue, Cardenden, Lochgelly, KY5 0EA
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 7 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02725/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 1 X9m high pole - Fern Place, Leuchars, Fife, KY16 0ET
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 8 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02742/FULL
Erection of dwellinghouse (renewal of planning permission 23/01887/FULL)
Hillview Drum Road Cupar Muir Cupar Fife KY15 5RJ
Received 7 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02747/TEL
Notification of intention to install telecommunications apparatus 9M Light pole at 16 Glencairn Crescent, Leven, KY8 5NF
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 12 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02748/TEL
Notification of intention to install telecommunications apparatus 8m Medium Wooden pole at the Outside of 30 Bellyeoman Road Dunfermline Fife KY12 0BB
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 12 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02749/TEL
1 no. equipment cabinet and ancillary development thereto and the Removal of 3 no. antennas and installation of 3 no. new antennas at VELUX CO LTD DELIVERY POINT, NEWARK ROAD, GLENROTHES KY7 4NT
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 12 Oct 2026 - Registered26/02752/TEL
Telecom Notice of intention to install 5G Electronic Communications Apparatus UK FI 005485 at TEMPLEHALL FARM, KIRKCALDY, FIFE, KY2 5XA
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 12 Oct 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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