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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
23,201 approved · 849 refused · 1,781 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 29 Aug 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
60 Castlegate Lanark ML11 9EF
Received 17 Mar 2025South Flakefield Farm Bottom Highway Chapelton Strathaven ML10 6SL
Received 17 Mar 2025Highflat Farm Highflat Road Clarkston G76 9EU
Received 17 Mar 2025Land At 33 Brouster Hill East Kilbride G74 1AG
Received 17 Mar 202512 Castle Wynd Bothwell G71 8TQ
Received 17 Mar 2025152 Main Street Cambuslang G72 7EL
Received 17 Mar 202563 Crookedshields Road East Kilbride G74 4PE
Received 17 Mar 2025The Firs 10 Holm Avenue Uddingston G71 7AL
Received 17 Mar 2025South Cumberhead Stockbriggs From New Trows C13 To Cumberhead Lesmahagow Lanark ML11 0HN
Received 18 Mar 20252 Lake Avenue Lanark ML11 9BQ
Received 18 Mar 202583 Meikle Earnock Road Hamilton ML3 8AG
Received 18 Mar 2025Meadowhead Farm Waygateshaw Road Carluke ML8 5PT
Received 18 Mar 202510 Wellhead Court Lanark ML11 7DY
Received 18 Mar 2025Meadowhead Farm Waygateshaw Road Carluke ML8 5PT
Received 18 Mar 2025Meadowhead Farm Waygateshaw Road Carluke ML8 5PT
Received 18 Mar 2025Meadowhead Farm Waygateshaw Road Carluke ML8 5PT
Received 18 Mar 2025Meadowhead Farm Waygateshaw Road Carluke ML8 5PT
Received 18 Mar 2025Little Scholars Nursery 2 Scholars Gate East Kilbride G75 9JL
Received 19 Mar 20251 Alford Avenue Blantyre G72 0GS
Received 19 Mar 2025Land 310M Northeast Of Newhouse Farm Westburn Road Cambuslang
Received 18 Mar 2025Aimry Gillbride Pharmacy 82 Bellshill Road Uddingston G71 7NE
Received 19 Mar 202521 Allanton Gardens Ferniegair Hamilton ML3 7GQ
Received 19 Mar 2025Land 200M East Of Mid Muirhouse Farm C37 From Harelaw Roundabout A706 To A70 At Tarbrax Cleghorn Lanark
Received 19 Mar 202547 Grenville Drive Cambuslang G72 8DW
Received 20 Mar 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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