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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
Inverclyde
Planning applications.
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Inverclyde. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates2,554Searchable applications
92Recorded as pending
96%Approval rate · 2,298 approved or refused records
95Refused applications
2,203 approved · 95 refused · 132 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 8 Mar 2019 to 16 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Sept 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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More application records
- Granted20/0084/IC
Alterations to form new family room.
14 Barrhill Road Gourock PA19 1JX
Received 15 Apr 2020 - Granted Subject To Conditions20/0017/TRE
5 X Common Lime - Tilia x xeuropaea trees. - Pollard, 9 X Common Lime - Tilia x xeuropaea trees. - Crown reduction by 20%
Flat Basement-1 89 Eldon Street Greenock PA16 7RJ
Received 16 Apr 2020 - Granted Subject To Conditions20/0085/IC
Demolition of existing building and erection of new dwellinghouse (amendment to planning permission 19/0153/IC including the addition of chimney together with minor alterations to windows and rooflights and addition of stepped arrangement within curtilage to rear)
Kilmacolm Squash Club 36 Bridge Of Weir Road Kilmacolm PA13 4NN
Received 17 Apr 2020 - Application Withdrawn20/0086/IC
Proposed summer house of a wooden frame and structure within rear garden of property.
19 Broomberry Drive Gourock PA19 1JY
Received 20 Apr 2020 - Application Withdrawn20/0087/IC
Construction of 1 dwellinghouse and associated works (in connection with application 19/0314/IC and amendment to planning permission IC/02/05R)
Former Broadfield Hospital Port Glasgow
Received 21 Apr 2020 - Granted Subject To Conditions20/0018/TRE
Removal of tree
33 Esplanade Greenock PA16 7RY
Received 20 Apr 2020 - Application Withdrawn20/0088/IC
Erection of 9 dwellinghouses with associated access, open space, and landscaping
Former Carsemeadow School Craigbet Road Quarriers Village PA11 3SA
Received 22 Apr 2020 - Application Withdrawn20/0089/IC
Installation of decking and associated steps
11 Newark Street Greenock PA16 7UH
Received 27 Apr 2020 - Granted Subject To Conditions20/0090/IC
Alterations and extension to form new kitchen with associated boot room and pantry.
Cloak Cloak Road Kilmacolm PA13 4SD
Received 1 May 2020 - Granted Subject To Conditions20/0023/LB
Alterations and extension to form new kitchen with associated boot room and pantry
Cloak Cloak Road Kilmacolm PA13 4SD
Received 1 May 2020 - Granted Subject To Conditions20/0091/IC
Proposed decking to rear of property at French windows
38 Mearns Street Greenock PA15 4QD
Received 4 May 2020 - Granted20/0092/IC
Proposed extension and alterations including construction of front porch, rear extension and detached garage.
83 Newark Street Greenock PA16 7TP
Received 5 May 2020 - Granted20/0093/IC
Replacement windows to garden flat.
72A Union Street Greenock PA16 8BL
Received 6 May 2020 - Granted20/0024/LB
Replacement windows to garden flat.
72A Union Street Greenock PA16 8BL
Received 7 May 2020 - Granted20/0094/IC
Erection of a summerhouse in rear garden
19 Broomberry Drive Gourock PA19 1JY
Received 7 May 2020 - Granted Subject To Conditions20/0095/IC
Extension, garage conversion, new decking and alterations to existing dwelling
Shuna Cottage Rowantreehill Road Kilmacolm PA13 4PE
Received 7 May 2020 - Application Withdrawn20/0097/IC
Proposed extension to rear and extension to existing timber deck at rear
17 Aberdour Place Inverkip PA16 0HZ
Received 8 May 2020 - Pending Decision20/0098/IC
Change of use from residential accommodation to a Hotel of Blocks B C D and E of the existing Waterfront Campus building
College Custom House Way Greenock PA15 1EN
Received 12 May 2020 - Granted Subject To Conditions20/0099/IC
Proposed erection of 22 no. 3 bedroom semi-detached houses, access road, open space and associated works
The McPherson Centre McPherson Drive Gourock PA19 1LJ
Received 13 May 2020 - Application Withdrawn20/0100/IC
Proposed street-facing roof window arrangement to upper floor flat
Flat 2 75B Union Street Greenock PA16 8BG
Received 14 May 2020 - Granted Subject To Conditions20/0012/CA
Individual letters mounted on the building to show name of facility
Greenock Health And Care Centre Wellington Street Greenock PA15 4NH
Received 14 May 2020 - Granted20/0101/IC
Erection of single storey extension to the north elevation to form a large entrance porch together with the application of lime render to the exterior walls of the dwellinghouse
1 Burnside Steadings Burnside Farm Old Greenock Road Port Glasgow PA14 6TN
Received 15 May 2020 - Granted20/0102/IC
Erection of new wooden summer house
47 Octavia Terrace Greenock PA16 7SR
Received 18 May 2020 - Application Withdrawn20/0103/IC
Erection of flue
8 Blaeberry Drive Inverkip PA16 0FS
Received 18 May 2020
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What these statistics cover
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Inverclyde, 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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