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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5,516 approved · 310 refused · 355 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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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
- Registered25/02363/CND006
Compliance with Condition 6 of planning permission 25/02363/FULL - SUDS
Westfield O C C S Fife
Received 24 Sept 2026 - Registered24/03281/NMV1
Erection of retail unit (Class 1A) and associated works (demolition of existing building). (Non-material variation to 24/03281/FULL for landscape amendments)
Land At Former King Malcolm Hotel Laburnum Road Dunfermline Fife
Received 25 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02625/TPO
1 Ash suffering from dieback - Removal of tree
32 Brodick Gardens Dunfermline Fife KY11 8ET
Received 25 Sept 2026 - Registered25/02138/CND001
Compliance with Condition 1 of Planning Permission 25/02138/LBC - stone replacement
St Clair Tavern 2 - 4 St Clair Street Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 2QE
Received 25 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02631/LBC
Listed Building Consent for traditional slate courses to the eaves/gutter
6A Station Road Kingsbarns St Andrews Fife KY16 8TB
Received 28 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02636/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
36 Church Place Upper Largo Leven Fife KY8 6EH
Received 28 Sept 2026 - Registered26/01423/CND002
Compliance with Condition 2 of planning permission 26/01423/FULL - Gas Protection
Windmill Community Campus Windmill Road Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 3AL
Received 28 Sept 2026 - Decided26/01423/CND003
Compliance with Condition 3 of planning permission 26/01423/FULL - Landscaping Plan
Windmill Community Campus Windmill Road Kirkcaldy Fife KY1 3AL
Received 28 Sept 2026 - Awaiting decision26/02641/CLP
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) for single storey extension to side of dwellinghouse and alteration to existing window to form door to rear of dwelling
10 St Adrians Place Anstruther Fife KY10 3DX
Received 29 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02643/LBC
Listed Building Consent for installation of replacement windows
51A High Street Elie Leven Fife KY9 1BZ
Received 29 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02645/PAS
Pre-application screening opinion (Section 35A) for alterations to and reuse of existing offices and warehouses, and erection of an energetics manufacturing facility comprising process buildings, earth-covered storage magazines with associated earthworks, ancillary buildings, access, parking, landscaping, drainage and associated infrastructure
Fife Ethylene Plant Mossmorran Fife
Received 8 Sept 2026 - Decided26/02646/SCR
EIA screening opinion for alterations to and reuse of offices and warehouses, and erection of an energetics manufacturing facility comprising process buildings, earth-covered storage magazines with associated earthworks, ancillary buildings, access, parking, landscaping,drainage and associated infrastructure
Fife Ethylene Plant Mossmorran Fife
Received 8 Sept 2026 - Registered24/03204/CND003
FRM-10055464 - Compliance with Condition 3 from application 24/03204/FULL - GATEPILLAIRS - REASON
Kilspindie Bank Street Elie Leven Fife KY9 1BW
Received 28 Sept 2026 - Registered24/03204/CND004
Compliance with Condition 4 from application 24/03204/FULL - DEMOLITION METHOD STATEMENT
Kilspindie Bank Street Elie Leven Fife KY9 1BW
Received 29 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02647/LBC
Listed Building Consent for alterations to shopfront
3 Alexandra Place Market Street St Andrews Fife KY16 9XD
Received 29 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02650/APN
Prior Notification for Farm-related Building Works (Non-residential).
Pitcairn Farm Pitcairn Road Bowhill Cardenden Lochgelly Fife KY5 0AD
Received 29 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02654/TPO
tree1 sycamore, tree2 silver birch, tree3 ash tree4 silver birch - crown raise and target prune of 4 trees overhanging property's boundary
Street Record Corpach Drive Dunfermline Fife
Received 30 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02656/TEL
Notification of intention to install Fixed Line Broadband Apparatus - outside rear wall of 1 Allan Robertson Drive, St Andrews, KY16 8EX
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 29 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02658/TEL
Notification of intention to install a Fixed Line Broadband Apparatus - Craigflower House, Craigflower Court, Torryburn, KY12 8AY
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 30 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02660/FULL
Single storey extension to rear of dwellinghouse
43 Minto Crescent Glenrothes Fife KY6 1LP
Received 30 Sept 2026 - Registered24/00924/NMV3
Erection of retail unit (Class 1A) and 4 No. commercial units (Class 1A and Class 3) including formation of access, car parking and cycle parking, landscaping and boundary treatments, and installation of EV chargers and drainage infrastructure (Non-Material Variation to amendment to the approved roof design, including a change in roofing material and profile, increase in roof pitch, and associated increase in ridge height, while retaining the approved footprint, eaves height, external colour and overall appearance to planning permission 24/00924/FULL)Payment reference - Pay later by Card
Land At Q3 Dunlin Drive Dunfermline Fife
Received 30 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02662/TEL
Notification of intention to install 1 No. 9m high pole SITE: Post Office Lane, North Queensferry, KY11 1JP
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 30 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02666/TEL
Notification of intention to install 1X 9m high pole - Dundonald Park, Cardenden, Lochgelly, KY5 0DA
This Site Address Is Still To Be Recorded On Our Property Database (temporary Address Used) Fife
Received 30 Sept 2026 - Registered26/02670/LBC
Listed Building Consent for installation of secondary glazing
Lower Flat Cunzie House Crail Road Anstruther Fife KY10 3EL
Received 1 Oct 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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