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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
23,323 approved · 857 refused · 1,789 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Woodlands 51 Glassford Road Strathaven ML10 6LL
Received 20 Mar 2025West End Bar 493 Glasgow Road Blantyre G72 9HP
Received 20 Mar 20258 Littlewell Crescent Biggar ML12 6ZW
Received 20 Mar 2025Burnwynd Racing Stables Burnwynd Farm A723 From Strathaven To Hamilton Strathaven ML10 6TY
Received 21 Mar 202545 Kerr Crescent Hamilton ML3 8JT
Received 24 Mar 20254B Earls Gate Bothwell G71 8BP
Received 24 Mar 20255 Albany Drive Rutherglen G73 3QN
Received 24 Mar 202545 Liddell Grove East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire G75 9AA
Received 24 Mar 202568 Main Street Cambuslang G72 7EP
Received 24 Mar 20256 Bennet Drive East Kilbride G75 7DJ
Received 25 Mar 202580A Devonburn Road Devonburn Lanark ML11 9PX
Received 25 Mar 202512 Dale Lane East Kilbride G75 9DL
Received 25 Mar 202527 Southcroft Road Rutherglen G73 1UG
Received 26 Mar 202550 Harvester Avenue Cambuslang G72 6WE
Received 26 Mar 2025Advertising Station 70M North Of 51 Farmeloan Road Farmeloan Road Rutherglen
Received 26 Mar 2025Globe Court Phoenix Court And Shaftbury Court East Kilbride G74 3RB
Received 26 Mar 202514 Chalmers Drive East Kilbride G75 0NY
Received 27 Mar 202510 Brightside Avenue Uddingston G71 7NF
Received 27 Mar 20255 Hamilton Drive Bothwell G71 8RR
Received 27 Mar 202549 Fraser Street Cambuslang G72 7AR
Received 27 Mar 2025Dail Chluaidh 9 Muttonhole Road Hamilton ML3 8RU
Received 27 Mar 20254 Saibai Park Blackwood Lanark ML11 9GP
Received 27 Mar 202576 Kirktonholme Road East Kilbride G74 1BD
Received 27 Mar 2025136 Westburn Road Cambuslang G72 7SZ
Received 27 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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