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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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Renfrewshire planning applications
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Renfrewshire. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Renfrewshire website
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates32,320Searchable applications
138Recorded as pending
94%Approval rate · 29,835 approved or refused records
1,930Refused applications
27,905 approved · 1,930 refused · 1,374 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Nov 1987 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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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Conservation areas8 mapped area records
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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
- Decided97/0169/AD
Erection of various advertisment and directional signs to include three illuminated signs and three flag poles.
Napier Road Hillington
Received 10 Mar 1997 - Decided97/0168/LB
Installation of double glazing windows.
17 Church Street Lochwinnoch
Received 7 Mar 1997 - Decided97/0167/PP
Erection of a wooden pigeon loft.
38 Kilbarchan Road Johnstone
Received 6 Mar 1997 - Decided97/0166/PP
Proposed alteration to shopfront.
10 Lawn Street Paisley
Received 6 Mar 1997 - Decided97/0165/PP
Proposed formation of a driveway.
15 Lomond Avenue Renfrew
Received 5 Mar 1997 - Decided97/0164/PP
Erection of a bungalow with separate double garage.
Bowfield Road Howwood
Received 5 Mar 1997 - Decided97/0163/PP
Formation of a driveway.
6 West Porton Place Bishopton
Received 5 Mar 1997 - Decided97/0162/AD
Erection of one 48 sheet advertisement hoarding.
Adj. Browns Brickworks Sub Station Ferguslie Paisley
Received 5 Mar 1997 - Decided97/0584/PP
Part change of use of dwelling house for commercial use, namely the use of three rooms on the ground floor to be used to conduct a photographic business.
15 Potterhill Avenue Paisley
Received 26 Jun 1997 - Decided97/0583/PP
Change of use of land for clay pigeon shooting.
Fulwood Wood And Loanhead Farm Houston
Received 26 Jun 1997 - Unknown97/0582/PP
Installation of window.
100 Abbotsford Crescent Paisley
Received 26 Jun 1997 - Decided97/0581/PP
Erection of a conservatory to the rear of dwelling house.
Varri Brediland Road Linwood
Received 26 Jun 1997 - Decided97/0580/PP
Formation of rear dormer to dwelling house.
30 Renshaw Road Bishopton
Received 26 Jun 1997 - Decided97/0579/PP
Erection of front porch and rear conservatory to dwelling house (in retrospect).
1 Linnpark Gardens Johnstone
Received 26 Jun 1997 - Decided97/0578/PP
Installation of replacement windows (in retrospect).
11 Cumbrae Road Renfrew
Received 25 Jun 1997 - Decided97/0577/PP
Alterations and change of use of upper floor flat to form an extension to restaurant.
Heera Restaurant 16-18 Porterfield Road Renfrew
Received 25 Jun 1997 - Decided04/0651/PP
Removal of Section 75 agreement linking occupation of house to public house.
Railway Inn 2 George Street Howwood.
Received 24 May 2004 - Decided04/0649/PP
Single storey rear extension & upper floor side extension with rear dormer above existing integrated garage and proposed side passage way.
25 Lossie Crescent Renfrew.
Received 24 May 2004 - Decided03/1419/PP
Erection of one dwelling house (Outline Application).
67 Paisley Road Renfrew
Received 5 Dec 2003 - Decided04/0633/PP
Erection of PVCU double glazed conservatory to rear of property.
10 Kemp Avenue Paisley
Received 19 May 2004 - Decided04/0645/TP
Felling of one tree.
2 Redhurst Way Paisley
Received 21 May 2004 - Decided04/0681/PP
Erection of a 2 storey side extension and single garage to detached dwelling house.
43 Victoria Road Brookfield
Received 1 Jun 2004 - Unknown04/0680/PP
Alteration to dwelling house, minor external works.
Old Castle Kingston Road Bishopton
Received 1 Jun 2004 - Decided04/0678/PP
Partial demolition of garage/toilet, erection of a two storey side extension and single storey extension to side and rear.
15 Ryat Linn Erskine
Received 1 Jun 2004
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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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