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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.
12,029 approved · 519 refused · 679 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 2015 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
1A Clyde Gateway Trade Park Dalmarnock Road Rutherglen G73 1AN
Received 21 Sept 2020Land 250M West Of Park Farm Hurlawcrook Road East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire G75 0QL
Received 21 Sept 2020Walston Braehead Farm Ogscastle Road Walston Lanark ML11 8NF
Received 22 Sept 202086 Caneluk Avenue Carluke ML8 4NE
Received 22 Sept 2020Land 15M Northeast Of 7 Glen Street Glen Street Cambuslang Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 22 Sept 2020West Mains Farm Manse Road Stonehouse Larkhall ML9 3NX
Received 22 Sept 20207 Plough Court Cambuslang G72 6ZL
Received 22 Sept 20202 - 4 Quarry Street Hamilton ML3 7AR
Received 22 Sept 2020Carnduff House C196 Carnduff Highway Strathaven ML10 6RP
Received 22 Sept 202012 Dale Lane East Kilbride G75 9DL
Received 23 Sept 202017 Green Street Strathaven ML10 6LT
Received 23 Sept 202017 Green Street Strathaven ML10 6LT
Received 23 Sept 202020 Violet Crescent Stonehouse Larkhall ML9 3HZ
Received 23 Sept 2020Plot 2 Waterfall Meadows Cleghorn Lanark South Lanarkshire ML11 7TF
Received 23 Sept 2020Asda Broomhill Drive Larkhall ML9 1RH
Received 24 Sept 202023 Drumgray Avenue Uddingston G71 7FD
Received 24 Sept 202018 Marsden Wynd East Kilbride G75 9PX
Received 24 Sept 202042 Dunedin Drive East Kilbride G75 8QG
Received 24 Sept 2020BOC Priestley Way Cambuslang Glasgow South Lanarkshire G72 7HN
Received 23 Sept 2020The Green Elsrickle Village Elsrickle Biggar ML12 6QZ
Received 23 Sept 2020226 Brownside Road Rutherglen G73 5BE
Received 24 Sept 202039 Basil Grove East Kilbride G75 8ZZ
Received 24 Sept 20202 Macdougal Drive Cambuslang G72 7GE
Received 24 Sept 202064 High Street Biggar ML12 6BJ
Received 24 Sept 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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