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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
Renfrewshire
Planning applications.
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Renfrewshire. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates12,467Searchable applications
140Recorded as pending
96%Approval rate · 11,310 approved or refused records
425Refused applications
10,885 approved · 425 refused · 423 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 21 Jul 2008 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Conservation 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
- Decided25/0323/PP
Installation of replacement facade to shopfront
132 Main Road Elderslie Johnstone PA5 9AX
Received 2 May 2025 - Decided25/0324/PP
Erection of single storey wrap-around extension to sides and rear of dwellinghouse to also include rooftop terrace
15 Hawick Avenue Paisley PA2 9LD
Received 2 May 2025 - Decided25/0325/LB
Installation of two replacement windows to front elevation of flat
3E School Wynd Paisley PA1 2DB
Received 2 May 2025 - Decided25/0326/CL
Certificate of Lawulness for a proposed single storey extension to rear
51 Nith Drive Renfrew PA4 0UR
Received 5 May 2025 - Decided25/0327/LB
Reslating of roof alongside associated repair works to include refacing of rear dormer, replacement leadwork, replacement rainwater goods and repointing and painting of chimneyhead
10A Oakshaw Street East Paisley PA1 2DD
Received 6 May 2025 - Decided25/0328/PAN
Erection of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS)
Laighpark Abercorn Street Paisley PA3 4DF
Received 6 May 2025 - Decided25/0329/EIASCR
Request for an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion for a data centre campus.
Site 400 Metres North East Of Glenview Caplaw Road Neilston
Received 6 May 2025 - Decided25/0330/PP
Erection of single storey rear extension and installation of decking
73 Old Greenock Road Bishopton PA7 5BE
Received 6 May 2025 - Decided25/0331/PP
Erection of single storey rear extension
41 Lammermuir Drive Paisley PA2 8BP
Received 6 May 2025 - Decided25/0332/PP
Formation of dormer to rear elevation roofplane
12 Morar Crescent Bishopton PA7 5DZ
Received 6 May 2025 - Decided25/0333/CL
Certificate of Lawfulness for proposed single storey side extension
77 Douglas Avenue Elderslie Johnstone PA5 9NF
Received 7 May 2025 - Decided25/0334/PAN
Proposal of Application Notice relating to installation of a 49.5MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and associated infrastructure, including the grid connection cable route.
Laigh Park BESS Abercorn Street Paisley
Received 7 May 2025 - Decided25/0335/EIASCR
Request for an Environmental Impact Assessment Screening Opinion for a flexible data centre campus, including ancillary offices/employment floorspace, internal/external plant and equipment, on-site wastewater pumping station, and emergency back-up generators and associated fuel storage.
Site 400 Metres South West Of Bent Farm Gleniffer Road Paisley
Received 7 May 2025 - Decided25/0336/PP
Installation of new and replacement windows, doors and rooflights and enclosure of existing lean-to roof to create plant room for air source heat pump
Burnfoot House Burnfoot Road Lochwinnoch PA12 4AN
Received 7 May 2025 - Decided25/0337/LB
Installation of new and replacement windows, doors and rooflights, enclosure of existing lean-to roof to create plant room for air source heat pump and internal alterations and reconfigurations
Burnfoot House Burnfoot Road Lochwinnoch PA12 4AN
Received 7 May 2025 - Decided25/0339/DOC
Request to discharge the suspensive aspect of conditions 3 (Verification Report), 10 (2 Metre Footway), of Planning Permission 22/0559/PP
Ground A Cathcart Crescent Paisley
Received 7 May 2025 - Decided25/0340/DOC
Request to discharge suspensive aspect of conditions 2 (Bird Hazard Management Plan) and 3 (Hedge Planting) of Planning Permission 23/0513/PP
Roundabout At Entrance To Rolls Royce Factory Inchinnan Drive Inchinnan
Received 8 May 2025 - Decided25/0343/NMV
Non-Material Variation (NMV) for garage conversion to plot 84 for Planning Permission 20/0510/PP
Former Thornly Park Campus Caplethill Road Paisley
Received 8 May 2025 - Decided25/0347/DOC
Request to discharge suspensive aspect of Condition 3 (decommissioning, restoration, aftercare strategy) of Section 42 application 23/0431/PP
Site Between Nether Southbar And East Fulwood Greenock Road Inchinnan
Received 8 May 2025 - Decided25/0349/DOC
Request to discharge suspensive aspect of Condition 14 (pre and post construction road condition survey) of Section 42 application 23/0431/PP
Site Between Nether Southbar And East Fulwood Greenock Road Inchinnan
Received 8 May 2025 - Decided25/0350/PP
Erection of single storey side extension.
37 Meadside Avenue Kilbarchan Johnstone PA10 2LA
Received 8 May 2025 - Decided25/0352/PP
Change of use from office (Class 4) to gymnasium (Class 11)
Units Du3 And Du4 101 Abercorn Street Paisley PA3 4AT
Received 9 May 2025 - Decided25/0353/PP
Demolition of garage and gym, erection of two storey side extension and associated external alterations
Creran Bankend Road Bridge Of Weir PA11 3EU
Received 12 May 2025 - Decided25/0354/TP
Removal of Common Lime tree
29 Loanhead Road Linwood Paisley PA3 3QN
Received 12 May 2025
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What these statistics cover
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Renfrewshire, 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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