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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
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for South Lanarkshire. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
10,364 approved · 480 refused · 585 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 2015 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Proposed Commercial Development At Site Of Former Nursing Home Borland Drive Strutherhill Industrial Estate Larkhall South Lanarkshire
Received 26 Feb 2019Hamilton Town Hotel 29 - 31 Townhead Street Hamilton ML3 7BQ
Received 14 Feb 201919 Bentinck Grange East Kilbride G74 5PL
Received 26 Feb 20195 Lowther View Leadhills Biggar ML12 6XZ
Received 26 Feb 201926 St Leonards Square East Kilbride G74 2AT
Received 26 Feb 20191 Torrance Gait East Kilbride G75 0RR
Received 27 Feb 201914 Dunedin Drive East Kilbride G75 8QQ
Received 27 Feb 2019133 High Street Biggar ML12 6DL
Received 27 Feb 20195 Greenlees Road Cambuslang G72 8JA
Received 27 Feb 201915 Reay Avenue East Kilbride G74 1QT
Received 27 Feb 2019Units 1 And 2 4 Stuart Street East Kilbride G74 4NG
Received 27 Feb 2019Land 140M Northwest Of 2 Swinhill Avenue Swinhill Avenue Birkenshaw Larkhall South Lanarkshire
Received 27 Feb 20199 Braefoot Lane Uddingston G71 7PP
Received 28 Feb 2019Land 38M Southwest Of Rockville House Heads Highway Glassford Strathaven South Lanarkshire
Received 28 Feb 2019Hozier House 129 Hyndford Road Lanark ML11 9GG
Received 27 Feb 2019North Torfoot Farm B745 Waterhead Peelhill And Linbank Highway Drumclog Strathaven ML10 6QG
Received 28 Feb 201914 Whittaker Avenue East Kilbride G75 9QA
Received 1 Mar 2019Millholm 4 Millholm Road Strathaven ML10 6DB
Received 1 Mar 2019Land 39M Wnw Of Tweedieside Farm Tweedieside Farm Boag Road Sandford Strathaven South Lanarkshire
Received 1 Mar 201923 Main Street Douglas Lanark ML11 0QW
Received 1 Mar 201964-68 Burnbank Centre Hamilton ML3 0NA
Received 1 Mar 2019Westwood House 1 East Milton Grove East Kilbride G75 8SN
Received 1 Mar 2019Proposed Redevelopment Of Duchess Place And Cunningham Road Cambuslang Road Rutherglen Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 28 Feb 201922 Kirk Street Carluke ML8 5BW
Received 1 Mar 2019Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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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