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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5,516 approved · 310 refused · 355 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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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
- Decided26/02528/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2, 9m high poles - North-West of Links Cottage, and North-West of Beneden, Links Road, Earlsferry
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 14 Sept 2026 - Registered24/03331/NMV1
Change of use from two flatted dwellings (Sui Generis) to dwellinghouse (Class 9) and erection of single storey extension (demolition of existing extension) and formation of balcony (Non-Material Variation to minor revisions to the planning consent, including reduction in roof glazing and one additional rooflight to planning permission 24/03331/FULL)
Carnethy 49 High Street Earlsferry Leven Fife KY9 1AF
Received 14 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02532/FULL
Erection of domestic garage and erection of wall (Renewal of planning approval 23/02455/FULL)
5 Orchard Court Auchtermuchty Cupar Fife KY14 7HX
Received 14 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02535/TEL
Notification of intention to install telecoms apparatus
Telecommunications Tower Otterston Burntisland Fife
Received 14 Sept 2026 - Awaiting decision26/00228/NMV1
Installation of synthetic sports pitch, floodlights, fencing and gates and change of use of part of agricultural field to form car park, vehicular access and associated works. (Non Material Variation from application 26/00228/FULL to the fencing height, layout, pathways and gates)
Greig Institute Milton Road Windygates Leven Fife KY8 5DG
Received 14 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02541/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - North-West of 2-6 Nairn Street, Leven
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 15 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02542/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 10m high pole - West of 11B Linwood Drive, Leven
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 15 Sept 2026 - Decided26/00702/CND002
Compliance with Condition 2 of planning permission 26/00702/FULL - The BS/RAL colour of the proposed paint for the render
6 Glovers Wynd Earlsferry Leven Fife KY9 1AE
Received 15 Sept 2026 - Awaiting decision26/02545/PAN
Proposal of Application Notice for erection of golf practice driving range with clubhouse, alterations to existing access, formation of site access, car parking and drainage
Land Adjacent Balmashie Holiday Homes Kenly Boarhills Fife
Received 15 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02546/SCR
Screening request for proposed development of 2 No. poultry sheds
Hillcairnie Farm Cairnie Cupar Fife KY15 4QD
Received 10 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02547/RCC
Roads Construction Consent for proposed 3m shared cycleway/footpath- Lot 1 Substation Civil Enabling Works
Street Record Hawkhill Road Kincardine Fife
Received 10 Sept 2026 - Registered24/00567/NMV1
Erection of 4.no dwellinghouses with integral garages and erection of 2.no self-contained holiday lets (amendment to 23/00273/FULL)(Non Material Variation from Application 24/00567/FULL to Additional roof mounted solar PV (plots 3, 4, 8, 9 & 10)
Farm House Milton Muir Mitchell Place Anstruther Fife KY10 3JD
Received 16 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02551/TCA
Felling of 1 No. Ash Tree and 1 No. Sycamore Tree
Park Lodge The Park Gallows Loan Culross Dunfermline Fife KY12 8JA
Received 16 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02552/FULL
External alterations to dwellinghouse including installation of replacement windows, and erection of domestic garage and formation of hardstanding
Signal House 1 Main Road Charlestown Dunfermline Fife KY11 3ED
Received 16 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02556/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 9m high pole - North of 55/57 Durie Street, Methil
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 16 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02558/TEL
Notification of intention to install a 10m high pole - North-East of 137 Denfield Avenue, Dundonald
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 16 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02560/FULL
Two storey extension to side of dwellinghouse
25 Standalane Kincardine Alloa Fife FK10 4NY
Received 16 Sept 2026 - Decided23/00973/NMV1
Two single storey extensions to rear of dwellinghouse, and one single storey to front (Non-Material Variation to raise the roof ridge line of the extension by approximately 0.40 m to accommodate structural steelwork to planning permission 23/00973/FULL)
Craiglea Cottage Ladeddie Farm Ladeddie Pitscottie Cupar Fife KY15 5TY
Received 16 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02563/FULL
Installation of replacement door
7 Couston Street Dunfermline Fife KY12 7QW
Received 17 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02565/FULL
Installation of replacement windows and doors and 2 no. rooflights
16 Hawkhill Road Kincardine Alloa Fife FK10 4QT
Received 17 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02567/LBC
Listed Building Consent for internal alterations, replacement windows and doors and installation of 2 no. rooflights
16 Hawkhill Road Kincardine Alloa Fife FK10 4QT
Received 17 Sept 2026 - Registered21/02328/CND010
Compliance with Condition 10 of planning permission 21/02328/ARC - Road WorksAddress :- Fife College Dunfermline Learning Campus, Calaiswood Crescent, Dunfermline, KY11 8SJ
Freescale Site Dunlin Drive Dunfermline Fife
Received 17 Sept 2026 - Registered24/01432/CND001
Compliance with Condition 1 of planning permission 24/01432/FULL - Scheme of Works
Land South Of Pitdinnie Farm Pitdinnie Road Cairneyhill Fife
Received 17 Sept 2026 - Awaiting decision24/01171/NMV1
Alterations to access gates and reinstatement of outhouse, alterations to garden store to form garden room (Non-Material Variation to Proposed white aluminium bi-fold door system to be installed on the garden room instead of the bi-fold door to planning permission 24/01171/FULL)
West House South Street Elie Leven Fife KY9 1DN
Received 18 Sept 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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