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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.
11,293 approved · 500 refused · 632 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
43 Main Street Cambuslang Glasgow South Lanarkshire G72 7HB
Received 21 Jan 202056 Lanark Road Crossford Carluke ML8 5RE
Received 21 Jan 20205 Upper Bourtree Drive Rutherglen G73 4EJ
Received 21 Jan 20205 St Andrews Avenue Bothwell G71 8DN
Received 22 Jan 2020Land 28M Northeast Of 248 Climpy Road Greenwall Road Forth Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 22 Jan 2020Land 13M East Of 39 Dunrobin Drive Dunrobin Drive East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 22 Jan 20201 Floors Farm Stonehouse Road Strathaven ML10 6TA
Received 22 Jan 202026 Fennsbank Avenue Rutherglen G73 5LL
Received 23 Jan 202018 Uddingston Road Bothwell G71 8PH
Received 23 Jan 2020Border Biscuits South Faulds Road Caldwellside Industrial Estate Lanark ML11 7SR
Received 23 Jan 2020Douglas West And Dalquhandy DP Renewable Energy Project Former Dalquhandy Opencast Coal Site West Of Junction 11 Of M74 South Lanarkshire
Received 23 Jan 2020Block 6 Trading Estate Third Road Blantyre Industrial Estate Glasgow South Lanarkshire G72 0UP
Received 23 Jan 2020Plot 11 8 Silvermuir Holdings Silvermuir Road Ravenstruther Lanark South Lanarkshire ML11 7SF
Received 24 Jan 2020Service Station 91 Burnbank Road Hamilton South Lanarkshire ML3 9AN
Received 24 Jan 2020240 Glasgow Road Rutherglen Glasgow South Lanarkshire G73 1UZ
Received 24 Jan 202030 Armadale Road Lanark ML11 7BG
Received 27 Jan 202091 Stewarton Drive Cambuslang G72 8DH
Received 27 Jan 2020110 Western Road Cambuslang G72 8EG
Received 27 Jan 2020Land 85M North Of 54 Tyne Avenue Shields Road East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 27 Jan 2020Devonburn View 12 Devonburn Road Devonburn Lanark ML11 9PX
Received 28 Jan 20203 Somerset Avenue Hamilton ML3 9BS
Received 27 Jan 2020Land 100M North Of 2 Swinhill Avenue Swinhill Avenue Birkenshaw Larkhall South Lanarkshire
Received 28 Jan 2020Land 42M Southeast Of 73 Cruachan Road Cruachan Road Rutherglen Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 28 Jan 20206 Inglis Place East Kilbride G75 0NJ
Received 28 Jan 2020Records 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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