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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.
11,174 approved · 499 refused · 623 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 2015 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
13 Clyde Street Carluke ML8 5EF
Received 18 Nov 20199 Quarry Street Hamilton South Lanarkshire ML3 7AW
Received 19 Nov 20191 Cleghorn Lea Lanark ML11 7NX
Received 19 Nov 201956 Wallace Wynd Cambuslang G72 8SE
Received 19 Nov 2019Land 20M West Of 95 Lanark Road Lanark Road Crossford Carluke South Lanarkshire
Received 19 Nov 201937 Allendale East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire G74 4JD
Received 19 Nov 2019Land 36M East Of 5 Tinto Drive Tinto Drive Carstairs Junction Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 19 Nov 2019Land 400M SSE Of Springhill Farm Springhill Road Douglas Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 19 Nov 2019Land 100M Northwest Of East Station Industrial Estate Duke Street Larkhall South Lanarkshire
Received 19 Nov 201967 Cadzow Street Hamilton ML3 6DZ
Received 19 Nov 20199B Lower Bourtree Drive Rutherglen Glasgow South Lanarkshire G73 4RG
Received 19 Nov 2019Cumberhead Wind Farm Stockbriggs From New Trows (c13) To Cumberhead Lesmahagow Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 19 Nov 20192 Douglas Drive Bothwell G71 8DH
Received 19 Nov 2019Land 33M Northeast Of 120 Bellfield Road Bellfield Road Coalburn Lanark
Received 19 Nov 20197 Ministers Park East Kilbride G74 5BX
Received 19 Nov 201917 Clydeford Drive Uddingston Glasgow South Lanarkshire G71 7DJ
Received 20 Nov 2019118 Silvertonhill Avenue Hamilton South Lanarkshire ML3 7PA
Received 20 Nov 2019Land 100M West Of Mcdonalds Dalmarnock Trading Estate Dalmarnock Road Rutherglen Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 20 Nov 201944 High Street Carluke ML8 4AJ
Received 20 Nov 2019Advertising Station Hamilton Road Cambuslang
Received 20 Nov 2019Wardens Office 23 Shawlands Crescent Shawsburn Larkhall ML9 2PH
Received 20 Nov 2019Land Off Cambuslang Road Rutherglen
Received 21 Nov 2019West End Wood A70 From Carstairs To Carnwath Carstairs Junction Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 21 Nov 2019Land 45M Southeast Of Netherpark Gateside Road Crawfordjohn Biggar South Lanarkshire
Received 21 Nov 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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