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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 dates7,109Searchable applications
531Recorded as pending
95%Approval rate · 5,734 approved or refused records
304Refused applications
5,430 approved · 304 refused · 344 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
- Decided26/01979/FULL
Change of use from office (Class 4) and physiotherapy surgery (Class 1A) to dwellinghouse (Class 9)
168 Appin Crescent Dunfermline Fife
Received 16 Jul 2026 - Registered26/01980/FULL
Change of use from public open space to private garden ground, and two storey extension to side of dwellinghouse
48 Moffat Crescent Lochgelly Fife KY5 9NZ
Received 16 Jul 2026 - Registered26/01981/FULL
External alterations including installation of glazed doors, replacement cladding, and roof covering, repairs to stonework and existing windows and doors, installation of signage, and change of use from domestic garden ground to outdoor seating area and associated works
Albany Hotel 56 - 58 North Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9AH
Received 17 Jul 2026 - Registered26/01982/LBC
Listed Building Consent for external alterations including installation of glazed doors, replacement cladding, and roof covering, repairs to stonework and existing windows and doors, installation of signage, landscaping, and associated works
Albany Hotel 56 - 58 North Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9AH
Received 17 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01983/TPO
Lime trees E0009 Falkland - To reduce canopy overhang onto our property back to boundary wall
8 Southfield Falkland Cupar Fife KY15 7AS
Received 17 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01984/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
104 Upper Dalgairn Cupar Fife KY15 4JQ
Received 17 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01985/LBC
Listed building consent for internal and external alterations including erection of single storey extensions, removal of existing paintwork to north facade, replacement slate roof, repainting of windows and partial demolition of existing extension (amendment to 25/02372/LBC)
60 North Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9AH
Received 17 Jul 2026 - Registered26/01986/FULL
Change of use of dwellinghouse (Class 9) to hotel annex (Class 7) and external alterations including erection of single storey extensions, removal of existing paintwork to north facade, replacement slate roof, repainting of windows, installation of air source heat pump and associated works (amendment to 25/02373/FULL)
60 North Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9AH
Received 17 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01987/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2, 8m and a 9m high pole - North of 1 and North-West of 24 The Cairns, and North-West of Scottish Lime Centre, 2 Rocks Road, Charlestown
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 16 Jul 2026 - Decided24/03240/NMV1
Alterations to and change of use from public house (Sui Generis) to form four flatted dwellings (Sui Generis) and associated development (Non-Material Variation to imit bicycle stores and replace with mounted hangling racks, re-arrange refuge bins store arrangements, re-arrange access path layout and erect a screen fence and gate to planning permission 24/03240/FULL)
Junction Bar 79 Perth Road Cowdenbeath Fife KY4 9BG
Received 17 Jul 2026 - Decided25/01732/NMV1
Erection of depot building (Class 6) with ancillary office space and associated works including formation of parking and landscaping (Non-Material Variation to proposed amendments comprise a minor increase in office accommodation capacity within the depot building together with associated revisions to the site layout, including the provision of five additional car parking spaces to planning permission 25/01732/FULL)
SP Energy Networks Glenrothes Depot Eastfield Industrial Estate Woodgate Drive Glenrothes Fife KY7 4PB
Received 17 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01988/FULL
Installation of replacement roofing to domestic garage
2 West Fergus Place Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 1UR
Received 17 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01989/FULL
Erection of gates and fences to flatted dwellings
St Marys Gardens St Marys Place St Andrews Fife KY16 9UY
Received 17 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01990/FULL
Installation of car port to front of dwellinghouse
12 Mount Frost Drive Glenrothes Fife KY7 6JQ
Received 21 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01991/FULL
Installation of parcel locker (Retrospective)
Thomson House Harbour View Methil Leven Fife KY8 3RW
Received 21 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01992/FULL
Installation of parcel locker (Retrospective)
Stuart Doig Polishers 58 Randolph Street Buckhaven Leven Fife KY8 1AT
Received 21 Jul 2026 - Awaiting decision26/01993/FULL
Installation of parcel lockers to front of building (in retrospect)
138 Queensferry Road Rosyth Dunfermline Fife KY11 2QY
Received 21 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01994/FULL
Installation of parcel locker (Retrospective)
27 Pentland Place Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6AG
Received 21 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01995/FULL
Installation of parcel lockers to front of building (in retrospect)
Inpost Locker At Crosshill Centre Main Street Crosshill Fife
Received 21 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01996/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse with associated raised platform, and alterations to existing balcony
63 Old Kirk Road Dunfermline Fife KY12 7SQ
Received 21 Jul 2026 - Registered26/01997/FULL
Erection of detached triple domestic garage to rear of dwelling house
Braemar Largo Road Leven Fife KY8 4TB
Received 21 Jul 2026 - Decided26/01998/FULL
Erection of detached triple domestic garage to front of dwellinghouse
Maroc Steelend Road Dunfermline Fife KY12 9LT
Received 21 Jul 2026 - Awaiting decision26/02000/FULL
Development of self-storage container facility (Class 6) including the siting of a portable building, erection of fencing access gate and associated works
Robert Bell Joiners Randolph Industrial Estate 1 Randolph Place Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 2YX
Received 21 Jul 2026 - Decided26/02001/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
25 Craigearn Avenue Kirkcaldy Fife KY2 6YS
Received 21 Jul 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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