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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.
16,105 approved · 578 refused · 1,038 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Nov 2014 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 17 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land 40M East Of 191 Main Street Main Street Forth Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 12 Oct 2022Plot 5 Ayr Road Ravenstruther Lanark ML11 8NL
Received 12 Oct 202230 Saltire Crescent Larkhall ML9 2LG
Received 12 Oct 202234 Allanton Lea Hamilton ML3 8ET
Received 12 Oct 202223B St James Avenue East Kilbride G74 5QD
Received 12 Oct 202210 Alder Avenue Hamilton ML3 7LL
Received 13 Oct 202221 Maggie Lawson Court Uddingston G71 7FB
Received 13 Oct 20223 Silverdale Crescent Lanark ML11 9HW
Received 13 Oct 2022Hamilton Golf Club Carlisle Road Ferniegair ML3 7UE
Received 14 Oct 2022Lochlyoch Cottage Lochlyoch From Howgate Road To A73 Fallburn Thankerton Biggar ML12 6NH
Received 14 Oct 20222 Lady Mary Walk Hamilton ML3 7NY
Received 14 Oct 2022Eastfield Glasgow Waste Water Pumping Station Seath Road Rutherglen
Received 17 Oct 2022Land 450M ESE Of Easter House Newhouse Road East Kilbride
Received 17 Oct 202210 Lee Meadow Road Braidwood Carluke ML8 5PJ
Received 17 Oct 2022Land Adjacent To Stewart Avenue Hamilton
Received 18 Oct 202214 Stein Terrace Ferniegair Hamilton ML3 7FR
Received 18 Oct 202255 Dunedin Drive East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire G75 8QF
Received 18 Oct 2022North Fieldhead Farm Breckonridge Highway Strathaven ML10 6QP
Received 18 Oct 202229 Keats Park Bothwell G71 8TG
Received 18 Oct 202238 Clover Crescent Cambuslang G72 6AD
Received 18 Oct 202260 Castle Street Hamilton ML3 6BU
Received 19 Oct 2022Land 45M Southwest Of The Smiddy Shieldhill Road Quothquan Biggar
Received 18 Oct 202210 Old Mill Lane Uddingston G71 7PD
Received 19 Oct 202223 Fairlie East Kilbride G74 4SF
Received 20 Oct 2022Records 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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