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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
23,834 approved · 878 refused · 1,832 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Jan 2007 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
66 Brown Street ML8 5DT
Received 15 May 2025Dykenook Farm C133 Waterhead Peelhill And Linbank Highway Strathaven ML10 6RH
Received 15 May 2025Priory Park Blantyre Farm Road Blantyre
Received 15 May 20251 Douglas Avenue Rutherglen G73 4RA
Received 15 May 20259 Lanark Road Braidwood Carluke ML8 4PW
Received 16 May 202510 Stroud Road East Kilbride G75 0YA
Received 16 May 202578 Union Street Hamilton ML3 6NE
Received 16 May 2025Damhill Lodge Corehouse Drive Corehouse Lanark ML11 9TQ
Received 16 May 20251 Guschet Place (also 2-9 & 11) Lanark ML11 9DN
Received 15 May 2025Land 33M Southwest Of 9 Burn Terrace Burn Place Cambuslang G72 7DS
Received 16 May 202554A High Street Biggar ML12 6BJ
Received 16 May 202572 Skylark Gardens Cambuslang G72 6AZ
Received 19 May 202530 Drumgray Avenue Uddingston G71 7FD
Received 19 May 20252-1 11A Green Street Strathaven ML10 6LT
Received 19 May 2025Land 750M Southeast Of Dungavel House IRC Muirkirk Road Strathaven ML10 6ET
Received 19 May 20253 Langholm East Kilbride G75 8YE
Received 19 May 2025Birks Farm Brownlee Road Law Carluke ML8 5HJ
Received 20 May 2025Land 50M East Of Gainerhill Lodge Muirkirk Road Strathaven ML10 6RE
Received 20 May 2025174 Hamilton Road Rutherglen G73 3BD
Received 20 May 20253 Byretown Grove Kirkfieldbank Lanark ML11 9NY
Received 23 May 2025Over Lethame Farm Lethame Highway Strathaven ML10 6RW
Received 23 May 202537 Hamilton Road Strathaven ML10 6JA
Received 23 May 202527 Hallside Crescent Cambuslang G72 7DY
Received 23 May 20254 Birchfield Place Strathaven ML10 6HS
Received 23 May 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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