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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
24,538 approved · 907 refused · 1,889 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
81 Grenville Drive Cambuslang G72 8DW
Received 7 Jul 202511 Larchfield Drive Rutherglen G73 4HA
Received 7 Jul 202521 Jane Drive East Kilbride G75 7BD
Received 7 Jul 20259 Dunlin East Kilbride G74 4RU
Received 8 Jul 20252 Brooklands Avenue Uddingston G71 7AT
Received 8 Jul 2025Leaside 48 Townhead Street Strathaven ML10 6DH
Received 8 Jul 2025Meadow House Heads Farm Heads Highway Glassford Strathaven ML10 6TU
Received 7 Jul 202551 Peel Road Thorntonhall G74 5AG
Received 8 Jul 2025Stonehill Forest B740 From Crawfordjohn B7078 Towards Sanquhar Crawfordjohn Biggar
Received 9 Jul 2025Hall House Langholm Road Lamington Biggar ML12 6HW
Received 9 Jul 2025Land 160M NNE Of Nethershields Farm Burn Highway Hamilton South Lanarkshire
Received 9 Jul 2025Hall House Langholm Road Lamington Biggar ML12 6HW
Received 9 Jul 20258 Stein Terrace Ferniegair Hamilton ML3 7FR
Received 10 Jul 2025Calderbank Herbertson Grove Blantyre G72 9RS
Received 10 Jul 2025Carrigans Eating House Strathaven Road East Kilbride G75 0QZ
Received 10 Jul 2025Land 130M Northwest Of Former Officers Mess Robertson Drive Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 11 Jul 2025Matt's Bar 203 Main Street Blantyre G72 0EL
Received 11 Jul 2025Thistle Seafoods Goldie Road Bothwell Park Industrial Estate Uddingston G71 6LS
Received 11 Jul 20255 Peel Place Bothwell G71 8PZ
Received 11 Jul 2025Larkhall Leisure Centre And Associated Land Broomhill Road Larkhall ML9 1QP
Received 11 Jul 20254 Clyde Avenue Ferniegair Hamilton ML3 7TY
Received 14 Jul 20254 Delves Road Lanark ML11 9DU
Received 14 Jul 202510 Raymond Place East Kilbride G75 8LD
Received 14 Jul 2025Yard - Northwest Lawmuir Road Law Carluke
Received 14 Jul 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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