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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
23,457 approved · 861 refused · 1,804 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 16 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plot 4 Hurlawcrook Road East Kilbride
Received 4 Apr 2025Craigknowe Farm Craigknowe Road Blantyre G72 9UQ
Received 4 Apr 2025Overton Farm Lanark Road Crossford Carluke ML8 5QF
Received 4 Apr 2025Field Access Opposite Entrance To Morrison Haulage Cloverhill Farm Strathaven ML10 6ST
Received 4 Apr 202510 Macdougal Drive Cambuslang G72 7GE
Received 4 Apr 2025Field At East Nethershields Farm Strathaven ML10 6TY
Received 4 Apr 2025Field Entrance Opposite East Nethershields Farm Strathaven ML10 6TY
Received 4 Apr 202513 Deveron Road East Kilbride G74 2HS
Received 4 Apr 2025228 Mill Street Rutherglen G73 2NF
Received 7 Apr 2025Fairfield Place East Kilbride G74 5LP
Received 8 Apr 202596 Stewarton Drive Cambuslang G72 8DJ
Received 8 Apr 202519 Mccallum Avenue Rutherglen G73 3AJ
Received 8 Apr 2025Land 135M Northwest Of Millbrae House Redwood Drive East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 8 Apr 202514 Clincarthill Road Rutherglen G73 2LQ
Received 9 Apr 202540 Birdsfield Street Hamilton ML3 0RD
Received 9 Apr 202514 Park Road Hamilton ML3 6PD
Received 10 Apr 20258 Eriskay Avenue Hamilton ML3 8QB
Received 10 Apr 20259 Strathyre Gardens East Kilbride G75 8GP
Received 10 Apr 2025Orchard Farm Waygateshaw Road Carluke
Received 10 Apr 20252 Iona Ridge Hamilton ML3 8PY
Received 10 Apr 202559 Oakbank Crescent Uddingston G71 7FE
Received 11 Apr 202510 Lochar Place East Kilbride G75 8BX
Received 11 Apr 2025Leelaw Farm Greenrig Road Hawksland Lanark ML11 9QA
Received 11 Apr 202516 Whitehill Crescent Lanark ML11 9HG
Received 11 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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