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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2,203 approved · 95 refused · 132 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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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
- Granted Subject To Conditions25/0141/IC
Change of use from residential property to short term lets
Flat 1-1 24 Murdieston Street Greenock PA15 4DS
Received 12 Aug 2025 - Application Refused25/0142/IC
Change of use from commercial to two short-term lets
Office 1A Mearns Street Greenock PA15 4PP
Received 13 Aug 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0143/IC
Formation of rear dormer with balcony, formation of rear facing rooflight, conversion of rear garage to form detached ancillary building containing gym with external alterations and erection of security gate and fence
1 Burnside Place Port Glasgow Road Kilmacolm PA13 4ET
Received 14 Aug 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0144/IC
Formation of decking with balustrade in front curtilage
35 Duthie Road Gourock PA19 1XS
Received 15 Aug 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0145/IC
Formation of decking with balustrade in front curtilage
33 Duthie Road Gourock PA19 1XS
Received 15 Aug 2025 - Granted25/0009/PA
Installation of replacement windows at front
91 Newton Street Greenock PA16 8SG
Received 14 Aug 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0028/TRE
Treeworks to reduce size of Fir tree
34B Ashton Road Gourock PA19 1BY
Received 19 Aug 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0146/IC
External alerations to an existing outbuilding at rear; to form raised roof and front bay
Millford Lochwinnoch Road Kilmacolm PA13 4DZ
Received 19 Aug 2025 - Granted25/0011/LB
Internal alterations to basement level
Office 1A Mearns Street Greenock PA15 4PP
Received 20 Aug 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0147/IC
Formation of French door and raised deck
108 Newton Street Greenock PA16 8SS
Received 21 Aug 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0149/IC
Installation of semi permanent disabled access ramp to front
11 Pladda Avenue Port Glasgow PA14 6EW
Received 22 Aug 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0150/IC
Erection of single storey outbuilding; for ancillary use of the main dwelling
9 Ivy Crescent Gourock PA19 1SH
Received 27 Aug 2025 - Granted25/0029/TRE
Pruning works to 2 Lime, 2 Red Beech trees and 1 Green Beech tree
41 Esplanade Greenock PA16 7RY
Received 27 Aug 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0151/IC
Change of use from residential to short term lets
8 Belleaire Drive Greenock PA16 7UP
Received 29 Aug 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0152/IC
Installation of three rooflights to north elevation and three rooflights to south elevation of dwelling
Lamara Duchal Road Kilmacolm PA13 4AS
Received 1 Sept 2025 - Granted25/0030/TRE
Treeworks to fell two trees
Durisdeer Glenmosston Road Kilmacolm PA13 4PF
Received 1 Sept 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0153/IC
Erection of single storey rear extension
25 Drummond Street Greenock PA16 9DN
Received 1 Sept 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0154/IC
Alterations and extension to roof of dwelling
5 Torr Avenue Quarriers Village PA11 3QZ
Received 2 Sept 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0155/IC
Erection of single storey rear extension (in retrospect)
10 Malin Grove Inverkip PA16 0FF
Received 4 Sept 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0156/IC
Erection of single storey rear extension; alterations to windows/doors, replacement windows and conversion of garage door to window
43 Esplanade Greenock PA16 7RY
Received 8 Sept 2025 - Application Refused25/0157/IC
Change of use from residential to short-term let
Flat 2 113 Albert Road Gourock PA19 1NW
Received 8 Sept 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0005/CA
Display of non-illuminated mural
In Work Enterprises 46 Mearns Street Greenock PA15 4QD
Received 9 Sept 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0158/IC
Replacement of dwellinghouse roof from profiled terracotta tiles to flat grey tiles
11 Cloch Road Gourock PA19 1AB
Received 10 Sept 2025 - Granted Subject To Conditions25/0159/IC
Erection of two storey dwellinghouse with detached garage
Seacroft Main Road Inverkip PA16 0EA
Received 11 Sept 2025
Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Start with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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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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