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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.
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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2,203 approved · 95 refused · 132 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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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
- Granted24/0002/IC
Change of use of residential property to a mixed use operating as either a self-catering unit/short term lets or as a residential property (in retrospect)
Flat 2 North Lodge Greenock Road Wemyss Bay PA18 6BL
Received 9 Jan 2024 - Granted24/0003/IC
Change of use of flat to short term holiday lets (in retrospect)
4F Margaret Street Gourock PA19 1UJ
Received 9 Jan 2024 - Granted24/0002/TRE
Crown lift Sycamore tree (Tag 0065)
Johnston Street Greenock PA16 8AU
Received 9 Jan 2024 - Granted24/0003/TRE
Crown raise Horse Chestnut tree (Tag 3605), Sycamore trees (Tags 0068, 1884, 0069, 1893, 1883, 0212 and 2162) and Norway Maple tree (Tag 1886); crown lift Sycamore trees (Tags 2016 and 2107) and Norway Maple trees (Tags 0090, 2164, 0100, 1913, 0099 and 0098); cut back Sycamore tree (Tag 0070) and Norway Maple tree (Tag 1905)
Esplanade Greenock PA16 7SE
Received 9 Jan 2024 - Granted24/0004/TRE
Works to 37 trees comprising: felling of one Whitebeam tree (tag 1802); pollard of four Lime trees (tags 3289, 3288, 3283 and 3284); crown lifting of 16 Lime trees (tags 3287, 3285, 3282, 3273, 3270, 3459, 3460, 3462, 3464, 2136, 3473, 3474, 3475, 0096, 3481 and 1801), three Sycamore trees (tags 3272, 1789 and 1790), one Horse Chestnut tree (tag 1791) and one Beech tree (tag 1794); crown lift and crown reduction of one Lime tree (tag 3263), one Cherry tree (tag 3266), one Hazel tree (tag 1795) and one Ash tree (tag 2135); branch reduction on one Ash tree (tag 1797); removal of deadwood and stubs from two Sycamore trees (tags 2176 and 2177); shorten overhanging branches on one Cherry tree (tag 1787); and cut back one Lime tree (tag 1800), one Hornbeam tree (tag 2134) and one Whitebeam tree (tag 3509) from utilities
Finnart Street Greenock PA16 8HE
Received 9 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0004/IC
Change of use from agricultural land to a dog exercise field, erection of boundary fencing, erection of a shelter and formation of acar parking area (in retrospect)
Land At Finnockbog Road (200M SE Of Berfern Farm) Inverkip
Received 10 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0005/IC
Construction of two-storey side extension, projecting window on north-east side elevation and construction of raised platform within rear curtilage of dwellinghouse
14 Brodick Drive Gourock PA19 1AF
Received 11 Jan 2024 - Granted24/0001/LB
Internal alterations to remove two, non -load bearing walls and the installation of 16 solar photovoltaic panels (in retrospect)
Dunloe Wemyss Bay Road Wemyss Bay PA18 6AD
Received 11 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0007/IC
Formation of driveway/off street parking at front with associated erection of retaining walls; erection of garage at front; alterations and enlargement of raised patio at front of the house (partially in retrospect)
10 Drumshantie Road Gourock PA19 1SB
Received 12 Jan 2024 - Local Review Refused24/0008/IC
Erection of 2 two storey detached dwellinghouses with detached double garages
Former Garden Grounds At The Western End Of Knockbuckle Road Immediately Adjacent To Torwood Kilmacolm
Received 12 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0009/IC
Erection of detached dwellinghouse
Adjacent To Cowden Ha Port Glasgow Road Kilmacolm
Received 12 Jan 2024 - Local Review Refused24/0010/IC
Alterations to ground floor of existing outbuilding to convert garage to form habitable accommodation with associated external alterations; erection of detached garage
North Dennistoun House North Dennistoun Bridge Of Weir Road Kilmacolm PA13 4RU
Received 12 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0011/IC
Installation of replacement gates
74 Eldon Street Greenock PA16 7RE
Received 15 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0012/IC
Proposed sub division of existing restaurant to create smaller restaurant, dark kitchen and storage area and installation of new flue
Chinese Restaurant 119 West Blackhall Street Greenock PA15 1YD
Received 17 Jan 2024 - Granted24/0013/IC
Change of use of flat to short term lets (in retrospect)
FLAT G-2 2 Cromarty Grove Inverkip PA16 0FL
Received 18 Jan 2024 - Granted24/0007/TRE
Re-pollard European Lime tree (Tag 3438)
Adjacent To 1 Glen Street Greenock PA16 8BN
Received 18 Jan 2024 - Application Withdrawn24/0008/TRE
Reduce height of Pine tree
Flat Ground 52 Brougham Street Greenock PA16 8AL
Received 19 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0014/IC
Formation of driveway onto Gryffe Road
Puldohran Gryffe Road Kilmacolm PA13 4BA
Received 23 Jan 2024 - Local Review Refused24/0015/IC
Erection of two storey replacement dwellinghouse incorporating basement level following demolition of existing dwellinghouse; refurbishment and alterations of stables; alterations and conversion of barn to form visitor/guest accommodation; erection of agricultural building; enlargement of equestrian area following demolition of existing barn and stable block; and alterations to layout of visitor parking area.
Slates Farm Blacksholm Road Kilmacolm PA13 4SX
Received 25 Jan 2024 - Granted24/0009/TRE
Felling of Sycamore tree
25 Octavia Terrace Greenock PA16 7SP
Received 29 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0016/IC
Erection of sheds and pergolas (in retrospect)
Woodbourne Wemyss Bay Road Wemyss Bay PA18 6AD
Received 30 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0017/IC
Installation of extract flue at rear
35 Nicolson Street Greenock PA15 1UL
Received 30 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0018/IC
Erection of bicycle shelter and changing places toilet
Branching Out Parklea Park Parklea Road Port Glasgow
Received 30 Jan 2024 - Granted Subject To Conditions24/0019/IC
Change of use of flat to short term lets
Flat 3-1 24 Admirals Court 84 Kempock Street Gourock PA19 1ND
Received 30 Jan 2024
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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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