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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Lanarkshire. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Lanarkshire website
22,741 approved · 817 refused · 1,744 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 18 Dec 2007 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 21 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
26 Blairbeth Road Rutherglen G73 4JG
Received 24 Jan 202525 Grieve Croft Bothwell G71 8LU
Received 27 Jan 202524 West Avenue Carluke ML8 5AE
Received 27 Jan 202562 Springfield Park Road Rutherglen G73 3RG
Received 27 Jan 2025Land 390M NNW Of High Netherfauld House Farm Tower Road Douglas Lanark
Received 24 Jan 20254.5 Km Southwest Of Lanark North Of Broken Cross Muir Lanark
Received 24 Jan 202596 Chapel Street Carluke ML8 4BD
Received 27 Jan 202519 Whittaker Avenue East Kilbride G75 9QA
Received 27 Jan 20251 Thorn Avenue Thorntonhall G74 5AT
Received 28 Jan 2025Bluebells Millrig Road Wiston Biggar ML12 6HT
Received 28 Jan 20259 Cedar Crescent Hamilton ML3 7LW
Received 28 Jan 2025Land 85M South Of 51 Brocketsbrae Road Brocketsbrae Road Lesmahagow Lanark
Received 28 Jan 202586 Brownside Road Cambuslang G72 8AG
Received 28 Jan 202538 Buttercup Crescent Cambuslang G72 6AJ
Received 28 Jan 20255 Bale Avenue Cambuslang G72 6ZP
Received 28 Jan 202540 Kirkton Park East Kilbride G74 4HX
Received 29 Jan 2025Midlock Farm Campswater Road Crawford Biggar ML12 6UA
Received 29 Jan 202518 Vere Terrace Kirkmuirhill Lanark ML11 9YX
Received 29 Jan 202526 Kirklands Crescent Bothwell G71 8HJ
Received 29 Jan 202537 Russell Street Hamilton ML3 0QW
Received 29 Jan 202522 Alder Avenue Hamilton ML3 7LN
Received 3 Feb 202572 London Street Larkhall ML9 1AG
Received 3 Feb 20253 Redwood Place East Kilbride G74 5PB
Received 3 Feb 2025Unit 3 Lanark Market Acorn Road Lanark ML11 9AX
Received 3 Feb 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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