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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 dates6,856Searchable applications
525Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,508 approved or refused records
290Refused applications
5,218 approved · 290 refused · 324 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
- Decided26/00773/TCA
Crown raise 1 No. Cypress and 1 No. Sycamore
28 Newtown Cupar Fife KY15 4DD
Received 12 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00774/FULL
Installation of 4 no. parcel lockers and associated landscaping
Vacant Corner Plot Craigie Street Ballingry Fife
Received 12 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00775/FULL
Replacement render and installation of coping stones to side, 3 replacement windows to front, and installation of 2 air source heat pumps to rear of dwellinghouse
East Thorne Cottage Pattiesmuir Rosyth Fife KY11 3ES
Received 12 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00776/LBC
Listed building consent for replacement render and installation of coping stones to side, 3 replacement windows to front, and internal alterations to dwellinghouse
East Thorne Cottage Pattiesmuir Rosyth Fife KY11 3ES
Received 12 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00778/ADV
Advertisement Consent for installation of 1 no. temporary non-illuminated fascia sign
Rusacks Marine Hotel Pilmour Links St Andrews Fife KY16 9JQ
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00779/FULL
Erection of dwellinghouse and associated works
Teenatulloch Cattery Gallowhill Baintown Leven Fife KY8 5SJ
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00780/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
Ardenlea Bishopgate Cupar Fife KY15 4BD
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00781/FULL
Dormer extension to front of dwellinghouse
49 Lady Nairn Avenue Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 2AW
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00782/FULL
Installation of replacement access path (from stones to slabs)
The Wheel East Port Falkland Cupar Fife KY15 7DA
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00783/FULL
Change of use of car sales building (Class 5) to domestic outbuilding
1 Green Street Townhill Dunfermline Fife KY12 0HE
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00785/FULL
Installation of dormer extensions to front and rear of dwellinghouse
55 Crosshill Terrace Wormit Newport On Tay Fife DD6 8PS
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00786/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
Netherhill 2 Inverkeithing Road Aberdour Burntisland Fife KY3 0RS
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00787/FULL
Erection of shed/garden room
1 Hawkcraig Road Aberdour Burntisland Fife KY3 0UP
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided24/03281/CND007
Compliance with Condition 7 of planning permission - Energy Efficiency Measures
King Malcolm Hotel Laburnum Road Dunfermline Fife KY11 8DS
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00788/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
19 Canmore Gardens Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6XR
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00789/FULL
Single storey extension with balcony to rear of dwellinghouse
7 The Glebe Aberdour Burntisland Fife KY3 0UN
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00791/TPO
small group of trees consisting of fallen, topped and pruned trees - carry out removal of fallen, topped and pruned trees to tidy area. Removal of leaning tree.
1 Beech Place Low Valleyfield Dunfermline Fife KY12 8BT
Received 16 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00792/FULL
Siting of parcel locker
Back Wynd Car Park Back Wynd Falkland Cupar Fife KY15 7BX
Received 16 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00793/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2, 8m high poles - North of Kingseat of Outh, Craigencrowe, Kelty
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00794/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 10m high pole - West of 26-28 Martin Street, Buckhaven
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 13 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00796/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - East of 67 Wellshot Crescent, Kennoway
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 12 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00797/FULL
Substitution of house type (amendment to 24/03285/ARC)
Strathview Store Cupar Road Craigrothie Cupar Fife KY15 5QD
Received 16 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00798/PN
Prior approval for installation of replacement windows
7 Forth Place Burntisland Fife KY3 9DR
Received 12 Mar 2026 - Decided26/00799/FULL
Installation of replacement external steps to flatted dwelling
1 Old Schoolhouse Viewforth Place Leven Fife KY8 4PE
Received 16 Mar 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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