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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.
14,068 approved · 550 refused · 854 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 9 Mar 2015 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 15 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Meek Place Cambuslang G72 8LN
Received 21 May 2021Land 115M South Of 122 Goremire Road Goremire Road Carluke South Lanarkshire
Received 11 May 20211 Curfew Place Leadhills Biggar ML12 6XX
Received 21 May 202125 Borthwick Drive East Kilbride G75 8YH
Received 21 May 20211 Pinewood Walk Strathaven ML10 6UL
Received 21 May 20217 Ingerbeck Avenue Rutherglen G73 5DH
Received 21 May 202114 Mcintosh Gardens Law Carluke ML8 5FN
Received 24 May 20219 Robert Templeton Drive Cambuslang G72 7NE
Received 24 May 202127 Drumgray Avenue Uddingston G71 7FD
Received 24 May 202134 Knowehead Gardens Uddingston G71 7PY
Received 24 May 2021Land 62M Southwest Of 8 Middlemuir Road Middlemuir Road Coalburn Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 24 May 2021Site At Bridge Street Cambuslang G72 7ED
Received 17 May 202114 Highfield Drive Rutherglen G73 4HE
Received 24 May 202145 Carlisle Road Birkenshaw Larkhall ML9 2TP
Received 24 May 2021Plot 3 Dalserf Goods Yard Larkhall
Received 24 May 202152 Eliot Crescent Hamilton ML3 6SP
Received 24 May 202111 Lowther View Leadhills Biggar ML12 6XZ
Received 24 May 20213 Yementry Court Cambuslang G72 8TP
Received 24 May 20219 Bishop Gardens Hamilton ML3 7YF
Received 25 May 202163 Lethame Road Strathaven ML10 6DU
Received 25 May 20212 Brenfield Nursery Balgray Road Lesmahagow Lanark ML11 0JR
Received 25 May 2021Orchard Drive Blantyre
Received 25 May 20219 Kelvin Drive East Kilbride G75 0PH
Received 25 May 2021Land 70M Southeast Of Ivy Cottage Heads Highway Glassford Strathaven South Lanarkshire
Received 25 May 2021Records 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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