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Shetland Islands
Planning applications.

Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Shetland Islands. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.

Collected application statistics

Collected records · All available dates
9,728Searchable applications
135Recorded as pending
99%Approval rate · 7,787 approved or refused records
115Refused applications

7,672 approved · 115 refused · 260 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 20 May 2004 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.

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Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026
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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

  1. Decided2016/146/TPO

    Branch removal and pruning of trees

    Helendale Lerwick Shetland ZE1 0RG

    Received 7 Oct 2016
  2. Decided2016/148/PPP

    Application to renew planning permission reference 2013/304/PPP to erect a dwelling house

    Catfirth South Nesting Shetland ZE2 9PP

    Received 7 Oct 2016
  3. Decided2016/376/PPF

    To construct dwelling house with air source heat pump

    Vaara Trondra Shetland ZE1 0XL

    Received 11 Oct 2016
  4. Decided2016/377/AMSC

    Erect 2 bedroom dwelling house & detached garage with access road, parking and turning area. Installation of air-source heat pump.

    Bridge End Burra Shetland

    Received 12 Oct 2016
  5. Decided2016/149/PPF

    Access tracks works (retrospective)

    Callbackness Mossbank Shetland ZE2 9TU

    Received 13 Oct 2016
  6. Decided2016/150/PPF

    Clearing overgrown grass/weeds bringing to level without any removal and change of use to domestic garden ground (retrospective)

    Old Methodist Church Inchrye Stove Sandwick Shetland ZE2 9HH

    Received 13 Oct 2016
  7. Decided2016/378/PPF

    To erect 15m high lattice tower with associated telecommunications equipment and construct access track

    High Lamda Dale Hillside Grazing At Burravoe North Roe Shetland Isles ZE2 9RY

    Received 14 Oct 2016
  8. Decided2016/380/PPF

    Replacement of an existing 16m floodlight with a 22.5m monopole to support 3no. telecommunications antennae, installation of 2no. dishes and 3no. ground based equipment cabinets Existing flood lamp to be reattached to the replacement pole.

    Harbison Park Symbister Whalsay Shetland ZE2 9BQ

    Received 17 Oct 2016
  9. Decided2016/381/PPF

    Erect single storey 3 bedroomed dwelling with septic tank and soakaway.

    Proposed Site For New Dwelling Efstigarth Herra Yell Shetland

    Received 17 Oct 2016
  10. Decided2016/151/PPF

    Installation of temporary meteorological mast

    South Ness Foula Shetland ZE2 9PN

    Received 19 Oct 2016
  11. Decided2016/152/PPF

    Erect garage/shed

    Seggieburn Levenwick Shetland ZE2 9HX

    Received 20 Oct 2016
  12. Decided2016/153/PPF

    Install underground cable to connect to existing wind turbine

    Upper Langaskule Twatt Bixter Shetland ZE2 9LX

    Received 20 Oct 2016
  13. Decided2016/237/PNT

    replace 3 no existing telecommunications antenna with 3 no new telecommunications antenna at a height of 17m install 1 no new 1200mm microwave dish at a height of 8m on the existing 26.5m structure and install 1 no new equipment cabinet at ground level

    Weisdale Radio Station Off A971 Weisdale Shetland ZE2 9LN

    Received 21 Oct 2016
  14. Decided2016/237/PPP

    Planning permission in principle to erect 4 bedroom house

    Sandwick Shetland ZE2 9HH

    Received 24 Oct 2016
  15. Decided2016/239/VCON

    Alterations to approved internal layout and parking provision

    92 St Olaf Street Lerwick Shetland ZE1 0ES

    Received 22 Oct 2016
  16. Decided2016/382/PPF

    Construct Storey & half extension to existing dwelling house

    Nordafjord East Ness Ollaberry Shetland ZE2 9RT

    Received 27 Oct 2016
  17. Decided2016/383/PPP

    To erect a one and a half storey house on an existing dwellinghouse site, with entrance porch and adjoining garage, planning permission in principle

    The Clack Nesting Shetland

    Received 28 Oct 2016
  18. Decided2016/255/PNT

    Removal of 4no existing collinear antennas and the installation of 3no replacement antennas at 16.7m AGL and the installation of 1no 0.3m transmission dish at 19m AGL on the existing 25m high lattice mast

    Relay Station Berry Farm Scalloway Shetland

    Received 28 Oct 2016
  19. Decided2016/032/MAR

    To develop a new mussel farm comprising three 110m twin-headline longlines.

    Burki Taing West Muckle Roe

    Received 1 Nov 2016
  20. Decided2016/384/PPF

    Change of use from Class 10 to Class 2 to form physiotherapy clinic and form additional new entrance

    Scalloway Youth Centre Trust Main Street Scalloway Shetland ZE1 0TR

    Received 4 Nov 2016
  21. Decided2016/318/PPP

    Planning permission in principle to erect dwelling house

    Saltness Walls Shetland ZE2 9PF

    Received 3 Nov 2016
  22. Decided2016/385/PNT

    proposed installation of 1no weatherproof enclosure, installation of 1no 1.2m satellite backhaul dish on 2.7 support pole, installation of 4no antennas and 2no 0.6m transmission dish antennas onto existing 12m lattice tower

    Cladbank Unst Shetland ZE2 9DX

    Received 7 Nov 2016
  23. Decided2016/386/PPF

    To convert the old Sandwick school workshop into a one bedroom residential unit

    Old Sandwick School Workshop Stove Sandwick Shetland ZE2 9HH

    Received 7 Nov 2016
  24. Decided2016/387/LBC

    Increase width of existing first floor window

    Hillswick Store Hillswick Shetland ZE2 9RW

    Received 7 Nov 2016

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What these statistics cover

These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Shetland Islands, 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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