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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for North Ayrshire. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
8,359 approved · 360 refused · 512 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Jan 2000 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Plot A Plot BP9 Brewster Place Riverside Business Park Irvine Ayrshire KA11 5DD
Received 21 Sept 2000Meadowhead Sewage Treatment Plant Meadowhead Road Irvine Ayrshire KA11 5AT
Received 26 Sept 2000Lenamhor Farm Kilmory Brodick Isle Of Arran
Received 19 Sept 200074-80 Glasgow Street Ardrossan Ayrshire KA22 8EH
Received 19 Sept 20004 Factory Place Saltcoats Ayrshire KA21 5LA
Received 19 Sept 20009 Woodside West Kilbride Ayrshire KA23 9JB
Received 19 Sept 2000177 Bank Street Irvine Ayrshire KA12 0NH
Received 21 Sept 200015 Morrishill Drive Beith Ayrshire KA15 1LS
Received 21 Sept 200033 Main Road Fairlie Largs Ayrshire KA29 0DL
Received 21 Sept 2000Carrick Lodge Guest House Brodick Isle Of Arran KA27 8BH
Received 21 Sept 2000Site To South Of Corriegills Road Brodick Isle Of Arran
Received 21 Sept 2000Arran Yacht Club Lamlash Brodick Isle Of Arran KA27 8JN
Received 26 Sept 2000Redheugh Lodge Dipple Road Kilbirnie Ayrshire KA25 7JX
Received 29 Sept 2000Former Laundry Building Redheugh House Dipple Road Kilbirnie Ayrshire KA25 7JX
Received 19 Sept 200017 Barra Wynd Broomlands Irvine Ayrshire KA11 1DB
Received 22 Sept 200023 Stevenston Industrial Estate Stevenston Ayrshire KA20 3LR
Received 22 Sept 2000Criffel Wilson Street Beith Ayrshire KA15 2BE
Received 22 Sept 200014 Alton Way West Kilbride Ayrshire KA23 9JJ
Received 22 Sept 200026 Nithsdale Road Ardrossan Ayrshire KA22 7NG
Received 28 Sept 200021 Mid Dykes Road Saltcoats Ayrshire KA21 6BZ
Received 28 Sept 200016 Murray Crescent Lamlash Brodick Isle Of Arran KA27 8NS
Received 26 Sept 200012-20 Shore Road Stevenston Ayrshire KA20 3LA
Received 28 Sept 2000Plots 2 To 6 Hyndman Road Seamill West Kilbride Ayrshire KA23 9NL
Received 25 Sept 2000Zone BP2 Riverside Way Riverside Business Park Irvine Ayrshire KA11 5DJ
Received 2 Oct 2000Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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.
Planning procedures in Scotland differ from those in England. Use the authority’s own guidance for application requirements, comments and decision timescales.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for North Ayrshire, 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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