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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.
10,518 approved · 484 refused · 592 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Land 160M Northeast Of Girdwoodend Farm Girdwoodend Road Auchengray Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 17 Apr 201940 Smithycroft Hamilton ML3 7UL
Received 17 Apr 201910 Douglas Drive Cambuslang G72 8NG
Received 17 Apr 201973 Grenville Drive Cambuslang G72 8DW
Received 18 Apr 2019St Leonards Primary School Brancumhall Road East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire G74 3YA
Received 18 Apr 201911 Midcroft Place Strathaven ML10 6EX
Received 18 Apr 201994 Macarthur Wynd Cambuslang G72 7GA
Received 18 Apr 2019Site South Of 16 West Mains Road East Kilbride G74 1PJ
Received 15 Apr 2019Douglas West Wind Farm Middlemuir Road Coalburn Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 15 Apr 201916 West Mains Road East Kilbride G74 1PJ
Received 15 Apr 201918-20 Flakefield College Milton Industrial Estate East Kilbride G74 1PF
Received 18 Apr 201932 Monroe Avenue East Kilbride G75 8WA
Received 18 Apr 201918 Strathmore Road Hamilton ML3 6AQ
Received 19 Apr 201917 Grant Court Hamilton ML3 7UT
Received 19 Apr 2019113 Andrew Paton Way Hamilton ML3 0GA
Received 22 Apr 2019Land 22M North Of Shieldhill Farm Shieldhill Farm Shieldhill Road Quothquan Biggar South Lanarkshire
Received 22 Apr 201951 Balgray Road Lesmahagow ML11 0AS
Received 23 Apr 20191 Covington Oval Carstairs Junction ML11 8RU
Received 23 Apr 2019Hurleywell Hazelbank Braes Hazelbank ML11 9XL
Received 23 Apr 201936 Whiteshaw Drive Carluke ML8 5UL
Received 23 Apr 201923 Castlemains Crescent Uddingston G71 7ND
Received 23 Apr 201912 Abbeygreen Lesmahagow ML11 0EQ
Received 23 Apr 201948A Main Street Douglas ML11 0QW
Received 23 Apr 201912 Cullin Park Grove Strathaven ML10 6EN
Received 23 Apr 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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