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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.
11,012 approved · 497 refused · 620 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
17 Hawthorn Hill Hamilton South Lanarkshire ML3 7LR
Received 20 Sept 2019Land 41M East Of Garden View Dillarburn Road Lesmahagow Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 20 Sept 2019Land 115M North Of Robert Smillie Primary School Clare Crescent Larkhall South Lanarkshire
Received 20 Sept 20194 Wellshot Drive Cambuslang G72 8BS
Received 20 Sept 2019Brae Cottage Townfoot A702 From Abington A73 At Duneatonfoot To A72 At Biggar Coulter Biggar ML12 6PP
Received 20 Sept 2019Brae Cottage Townfoot A702 From Abington A73 At Duneatonfoot To A72 At Coulter Biggar ML12 6PP
Received 20 Sept 2019No1 The Barn East Mains Farm Manse Road Stonehouse Larkhall ML9 3NX
Received 23 Sept 201911 Peebles Drive Rutherglen G73 3JY
Received 23 Sept 20196 Millholm Road Strathaven ML10 6DB
Received 23 Sept 2019Douglashall Carnwath Road Carluke ML8 4PG
Received 23 Sept 2019Crossbasket Castle Stoneymeadow Road Blantyre Glasgow South Lanarkshire G72 9UE
Received 23 Sept 2019Cuningar Loop Site Downiebrae Road Rutherglen Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 23 Sept 2019Newhouse Park Farm Lanark Road Ravenstruther Lanark South Lanarkshire ML11 8NP
Received 23 Sept 201928 Central Avenue Cambuslang G72 8AZ
Received 24 Sept 20198 Plough Court Cambuslang G72 6ZL
Received 24 Sept 201913A Hunter Street East Kilbride G74 4LZ
Received 24 Sept 20192 Law Place Nerston Ind Est East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire G74 4QL
Received 19 Sept 2019Newhouse Park Farm Lanark Road Ravenstruther Lanark South Lanarkshire ML11 8NP
Received 24 Sept 2019Land 51M WSW Of 50 Carlisle Road Ferniegair Hamilton ML3 7TX
Received 24 Sept 20191 Warwick East Kilbride G74 3PZ
Received 24 Sept 2019Land Adjacent To Clare Crescent Larkhall
Received 24 Sept 2019Public Toilets - Closed King Street Stonehouse Larkhall South Lanarkshire
Received 24 Sept 20197 St Andrews Avenue Bothwell G71 8DN
Received 25 Sept 2019Rob Roy Caravan Park 120 Carlisle Road Crawford Biggar ML12 6TW
Received 25 Sept 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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