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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5,516 approved · 310 refused · 355 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
- Decided26/02573/TEL
Notification of intention to install telecoms apparatus - Base Station, Largo Road, St Andrews
Telecommunications Apparatus St Andrews Fife
Received 18 Sept 2026 - Registered24/02223/CND002
Compliance with condition 2 of approval 24/02223/FULL - Material Specifications
96 Tay Street Newport On Tay Fife DD6 8AS
Received 18 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02580/CLP
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed for conversion of integral games room to habitable accommodation
3 Dalmeny View Dalgety Bay Dunfermline Fife KY11 9LU
Received 21 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02582/APN
Prior Notification for Farm-related Building Works (Non-residential).
Land To The North Of Croftgarry Cottages Cullaloe Aberdour Fife
Received 21 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02583/FULL
Installation of SV pipes to dwellinghouse
92 Hepburn Gardens St Andrews Fife KY16 9LN
Received 21 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02588/LBC
Listed building consent for interal alterations
Traquair West Port Falkland Cupar Fife KY15 7BW
Received 21 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02590/FULL
Erection of one and half storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
2 Meadowfield Cottage Meadowfield Cowdenbeath Road Burntisland Fife KY3 0LD
Received 21 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02592/CLP
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) for external alterations to dwellinghouse (installation of replacement window and alterations to existing door to form window)
12 Dalgety Gardens Dalgety Bay Dunfermline Fife KY11 9LF
Received 21 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02594/TCA
Removal of x3 multi-stemmed self seeded Sycamore trees
Dean Cottage Lower Flat Ferry Road North Queensferry Inverkeithing Fife KY11 1HW
Received 22 Sept 2026 - Registered21/02768/CND011
Compliance with Condition 11 of Planning Permission ECU00003326 - Flooding, Land DrainageSITE: Land adjacent to the A876 Kincardine
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 8 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02600/PN
Prior notification for installation of replacement windows
The Gyle Chapel Green Earlsferry Leven Fife KY9 1AD
Received 16 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02601/RCC
Roads Construction Consent
Former Police Station Napier Road Glenrothes Fife KY6 1HN
Received 21 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02602/OBL
Modification of Planning Obligation (96/00374/HIST)
Land South Of Pitdinnie Farm Pitdinnie Road Cairneyhill Fife
Received 17 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02603/PN
Prior notification for installation of replacement windows
24 Couston Street Dunfermline Fife KY12 7QW
Received 16 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02604/TEL
Notification of intention to install a Electronic Communications Apparatus - Arqiva Transmitting Site, James Place, Ceres Road, Cupar, KY15 5JT
Transmitting Station 12303 Ceres Road Cupar Fife KY15 5JT
Received 22 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02605/FULL
Installation of replacement door
6 St Leonards Place Kinghorn Burntisland Fife KY3 9TL
Received 22 Sept 2026 - Registered26/00448/CND002
Compliance with Condition 2 of planning permission 26/00448/FULL - Archaeological Works
Farmhouse Easter Kilwhiss Farm Giffordtown Ladybank Cupar Fife KY15 7UR
Received 22 Sept 2026 - Registered24/00900/NMV1
Alterations to village hall including replacement and extended roof and installation of solar panels and formation of bin store (Non-Material Variation for Alteration of specification of external cladding to planning permission 24/00900/FULL)
Craigrothie Village Hall Cupar Road Craigrothie Cupar Fife KY15 5QD
Received 23 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02614/TEL
Notification of intention to install Fixed Line Broadband Apparatus - 34 Cooper Ha Avenue, Lochgelly, Fife,KY5 9DZ
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 23 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02615/PN
Prior notification for installation of replacement windows
43 High Street Dysart Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 2UQ
Received 22 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02622/TEL
Notification of intention to install 2 No. 8 metre, 2 No. 9 metre and 1 No. 10 metre high light polesSite: Dundaonld Park, Dundonald, Cardenden, KY5 0BZ
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 23 Sept 2026 - Registered23/02590/NMV1
Erection of dwellinghouse and formation of hardstanding (demolition of domestic outbuilding) (Non-Material Variation to footprint of proposed house, reduced the height of flat roof, new windows and doors, external finish to the walls, courtyard garden ommitted in lieu of paved patio, rooflight over entrance omitted and orientation of rooflight over kitchen varied and position of PV panels varied to planning permission 23/02590/FULL)
37 High Street Elie Leven Fife KY9 1BZ
Received 24 Sept 2026 - Decided25/02363/CND002
Compliance with Condition 2 of planning permission 25/02363/FULL - Contaminated Land Survey
Westfield O C C S Fife
Received 24 Sept 2026 - Decided25/02363/CND005
Compliance with Condition 5 of planning permission 25/02363/FULL - Construction Environmental Management Plan (CEMP)
Westfield O C C S Fife
Received 24 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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