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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23,323 approved · 857 refused · 1,789 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
59 Union Street Hamilton ML3 6NF
Received 28 Mar 2025Land At Tesco Car Park Springfield Park Road Rutherglen G73 3RJ
Received 28 Mar 2025Land 200M Southeast Of Newton Farm Newton Highway Strathaven
Received 28 Mar 2025Northway Service Station 87 Stewart Street Carluke ML8 5BY
Received 28 Mar 2025Beechwood Grange Osborne Crescent Thorntonhall G74 5AE
Received 28 Mar 2025Existing Road Inside Hartwood Hill Woodlands Glespin ML11 0SQ
Received 31 Mar 2025Within Dykehead Forrest Glespin Lanark ML11 0SQ
Received 31 Mar 202544 Station Road Carluke ML8 5AD
Received 31 Mar 2025Land 290M WSW Of Gilbertfield Farm Gilbertfield Road Cambuslang G72 8YJ
Received 31 Mar 202523 Drumgray Avenue Uddingston G71 7FD
Received 31 Mar 202514 Allanshaw Gardens Hamilton ML3 8NU
Received 31 Mar 2025Homestore & More Mavor Avenue Nerston Industrial Estate East Kilbride G74 4QX
Received 31 Mar 20256 Cameron Park Garrion Bridge Larkhall ML9 2WE
Received 31 Mar 202528 Muir Street Larkhall ML9 2BQ
Received 31 Mar 20251 Glebe Crescent East Kilbride G74 4LT
Received 31 Mar 20256 Ullswater East Kilbride G75 8EE
Received 31 Mar 2025254 Kittochside Road Clarkston G76 9ES
Received 31 Mar 202565 Sycamore Drive Hamilton ML3 7HF
Received 31 Mar 202559 Oakbank Crescent Uddingston G71 7FE
Received 1 Apr 2025Land 45M Northeast Of Kingsdale Howes Way Carstairs Junction Lanark
Received 2 Apr 202524 Hill Street Douglas Lanark ML11 0RF
Received 3 Apr 202514 Park Drive Thorntonhall G74 5AS
Received 3 Apr 2025Cloverhill Farm Strathaven ML10 6ST
Received 3 Apr 202535 Greystone Avenue Rutherglen G73 3SN
Received 4 Apr 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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