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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 South Lanarkshire. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
20,907 approved · 718 refused · 1,582 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Apr 2008 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
225 Kingsacre Road Rutherglen G73 2EN
Received 1 Jul 202423 Golf View Strathaven ML10 6AZ
Received 2 Jul 202415 Broomhill Gate Larkhall ML9 1ED
Received 2 Jul 2024MacKenzie Transport Forth Climpy Road Forth Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 2 Jul 202431 Maxwell Drive East Kilbride G74 4HJ
Received 3 Jul 20245 Westoun Steadings Westoun Road Coalburn ML11 0FW
Received 3 Jul 2024Site Of Former Westfield Saw Mills Harriet Street Rutherglen
Received 3 Jul 2024Site Of Former Rolls Royce Factory Unit Law Place Nerston Industrial Estate East Kilbride
Received 2 Jul 202459 Kingsknowe Drive Rutherglen G73 2AB
Received 3 Jul 202416 Broompark Drive Lesmahagow ML11 0DH
Received 3 Jul 20243 Falconers Lane Cleghorn ML11 8FS
Received 3 Jul 2024154 Strathaven Road Hamilton ML3 7UX
Received 3 Jul 2024Land 310M WNW Of Campwood Camp Wood Edinburgh Road Cleghorn Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 3 Jul 202423 Lanark Road Carluke ML8 4HE
Received 4 Jul 20245 Old Bothwell Road Bothwell G71 8AW
Received 5 Jul 2024St John Ogilvie Presbytery Broompark Road Blantyre G72 9XD
Received 5 Jul 2024Carnegie Hill East Kilbride G75 0AE
Received 5 Jul 202451 Machan Road Larkhall ML9 1HX
Received 8 Jul 20242 Bullionslaw Drive Rutherglen G73 3NE
Received 8 Jul 202421 Cleghorn Road Lanark ML11 7QR
Received 8 Jul 202420 Golf View Strathaven ML10 6AZ
Received 8 Jul 2024Land 66M Northeast Of Crown House Farm Struther Highway Sandford Strathaven ML10 6PT
Received 8 Jul 2024Suite 1 91 Bothwell Road Hamilton South Lanarkshire ML3 0DW
Received 8 Jul 202474 St Brides Way Bothwell G71 8QG
Received 9 Jul 2024Records 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 South Lanarkshire, 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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