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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 dates6,947Searchable applications
523Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,589 approved or refused records
295Refused applications
5,294 approved · 295 refused · 336 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
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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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
- Registered26/01469/FULL
Change of use from garage (associated with adjacent guest house) to a coffee and cake shop (Class 3)
Forth Bay Promenade Leven Fife KY8 4HZ
Received 26 May 2026 - Decided26/01470/TPO
Request to carry out tree works - Fell 1 x Mature OakTPO C0007 W1
Kennelmaids Cottage Stob Cross Road Markinch Glenrothes Fife KY7 6JU
Received 26 May 2026 - Decided25/02709/CND018
Compliance with Condition 18 of Planning Permission 25/02709/FULL - Construction Environmental Management Plan
Land To West Of Glenfield Industrial Estate Cowdenbeath Fife
Received 26 May 2026 - Decided26/01472/FULL
Alterations to shopfront
113 - 115 Market Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9PE
Received 26 May 2026 - Decided26/01473/ADV
Display of three letter signs (one externally illuminated), one logo sign, and one non-illuminated projecting sign
113 - 115 Market Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9PE
Received 26 May 2026 - Decided26/01474/PN
Prior Approval for installation of replacement bridge - Muriespot Bridge, Coaltown of Balgone
Muriespot Bridge Doubledykes Road Coaltown Of Balgonie Fife
Received 25 May 2026 - Decided22/03990/NMV3
Erection of 35 residential dwellings including affordable housing, formation of access and associated infrastructure and landscaping (Non Material Variation to approved 22/03990/FULL for adjustment to footpath links)
Land Site 1 Fulmar Way Donibristle Industrial Park Dalgety Bay Fife
Received 20 May 2026 - Decided24/03098/NMV3
Approval of matters specified in conditions 2 (a and b), 2 (d to f in part), 3 (a, k & l), (3 b to j and m in part), 4 in part, 5 (a to c, l, m and n in part), 5 (d to k and o) 6, 9 and 12 in part of planning permission in principle 24/01423/PPP for residential development with associated landscaping, open space, access, drainage and other infrastructure and the relocation of existing school with associated playing fields, pavilions, workshops/business units, residential blocks, landscaping, parking, servicing and access - Non-material variation for external alterations to 24/03098/ARCFRM-10029626
Hillside School 3 Main Street Aberdour Burntisland Fife KY3 0RH
Received 26 May 2026 - Decided26/01475/FULL
Porch extension to front and single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
25 Pickford Crescent Cellardyke Anstruther Fife KY10 3AT
Received 26 May 2026 - Withdrawn26/01476/FULL
Change of use from office (Class 4) to financial/ professional service (Class 1A) (Temporary for 6 months)
Office 4 The Boathouse Hawkcraig Road Aberdour Burntisland Fife KY3 0TZ
Received 26 May 2026 - Decided26/01477/FPN
Prior Notification for Forestry-related road works
Comerton Farm Earlshall Road Leuchars St Andrews Fife KY16 0DP
Received 26 May 2026 - Decided26/01478/FULL
Installation of solar panels to existing garage
1 Balwearie Crescent Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 5LX
Received 26 May 2026 - Decided26/01480/PN
Prior Notification/Approval for installation of replacement windows to front of dwellinghouse
Craiglea The Shore Aberdour Burntisland Fife KY3 0TY
Received 26 May 2026 - Decided26/01481/TEL
Notification of intention to install an 8m high pole - West of 29 Cameron Crescent, Glenrothes
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 27 May 2026 - Decided26/01482/PAN
Proposal of Application Notice for construction of ground mounted solar array (up to 49.9MW) and associated infrastructure including site access, parking, substation, welfare buildings, inverters/transformers, gates and fencing, CCTV, landscaping, grid connection cable and other works
Proposed Solar Farm North Of Pitkevy Farm Leslie Fife
Received 27 May 2026 - Decided26/01483/FULL
Two storey (attic) extension to dwellinghouse with associated external works
Home Farm Cottage Montrave Kennoway Leven Fife KY8 5NZ
Received 27 May 2026 - Decided26/01484/FULL
Installation of plant and equipment
Ceres W W T W Curling Pond Road Ceres Cupar Fife KY15 5NB
Received 27 May 2026 - Decided26/01485/FULL
Installation of EV charging hub and floodlighting with CCTV and associated works including erection of fence
Fife Leisure Park Whimbrel Place Dunfermline Fife
Received 27 May 2026 - Decided26/01486/ADV
Display of 5 No. post signs, 7 No. directional signs and 2 No. appendage signs to existing site totem
Fife Leisure Park Whimbrel Place Dunfermline Fife
Received 27 May 2026 - Decided26/01487/FULL
Dormer extension to front of dwellinghouse
Brookside Cottage Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6QX
Received 27 May 2026 - Decided25/01344/NMV1
Approval of revised Phase 1 Development Brief under the terms of Condition 1 (i) of planning permission 22/01642/PPP (Non-Material Variation for variation to approved Kingdom Park Phase 1 Development Brief (Rev F - October 2025) in order to amend Neighbourhood Centre specification (Section 2.3 / Page 11) to planning permission 25/01344/ARC)
Land At Kingslaw Randolph Road Kirkcaldy Fife
Received 27 May 2026 - Decided26/01488/FULL
Single storey extension to side of dwellinghouse and formation of access/parking space
Inchmay 2 Braehead Cellardyke Anstruther Fife KY10 3AH
Received 27 May 2026 - Registered26/01491/ARC
Application for Matters Specified in Conditions 1(a) to (e); 1(g) to (l); 2(a) to (m); 2(o) to (v), 3, 18, 27, 28 and 34 of planning permission in principle 18/03579/PPP for major mixed use development comprising: residential units (Class 9), associated car parking, landscaping, drainage and formation of new access points, small business units (Class 4), care home (Class 8), retirement housing (Class 8), additional parking for existing doctors surgery and community space/facilities
Land To East Of Wadeslea Elie Fife
Received 28 May 2026 - Decided26/01493/FULL
Single storey extension to side of dwellinghouse and formation of raised deck
4 The Mount Balmullo St Andrews Fife KY16 0DA
Received 28 May 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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