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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
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of South Lanarkshire. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official South Lanarkshire website
25,035 approved · 933 refused · 1,927 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 7 Dec 2006 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 22 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Highfield Auchengray Lanark ML11 8LW
Received 1 Sept 20255 Macarthur Gardens East Kilbride G74 4UJ
Received 1 Sept 2025Copper Tree 1 St James Way East Kilbride G74 5QG
Received 1 Sept 2025Copper Tree 1 St James Way East Kilbride G74 5QG
Received 1 Sept 202519 Albert Park Braidwood Carluke ML8 4RZ
Received 1 Sept 2025121 Falkland Drive East Kilbride G74 1EJ
Received 1 Sept 202520 Millar Street Glassford Strathaven ML10 6TD
Received 1 Sept 20259 Delves Park Lanark ML11 9DY
Received 2 Sept 2025Auchenblae Newbigging Road Dunsyre Lanark ML11 8NQ
Received 3 Sept 2025Cloburnwood Farm Access From Perryflats To Cloburn Farm Carmichael Biggar ML12 6PL
Received 3 Sept 202513A Douglas Gardens Uddingston G71 7HB
Received 2 Sept 2025Land At Former Petrol Station 235 Stonelaw Road Rutherglen G73 3RL
Received 3 Sept 2025Thinacres Farm Carscallan Road Quarter Hamilton ML3 7XL
Received 3 Sept 20252 Pine Avenue Cambuslang G72 7GQ
Received 3 Sept 202545 Avonbrae Crescent Hamilton ML3 7PQ
Received 3 Sept 2025Land 20M ESE Of 22 Carstairs Road Railway View Carstairs Lanark
Received 4 Sept 2025S U E R C Building Rankine Avenue Scottish Enterprise Technology Park East Kilbride G75 0QF
Received 4 Sept 2025Land To The East Of Clyde Avenue Ferniegair Hamilton ML3 7TY
Received 4 Sept 202588 High Street Lanark ML11 7ET
Received 4 Sept 2025151 Climpy Road Forth Lanark ML11 8EW
Received 4 Sept 20252 Pailis Crescent Bothwell G71 8FP
Received 4 Sept 202558 Collie Wynd Cambuslang G72 6WF
Received 5 Sept 202526 Hills Road Strathaven ML10 6LQ
Received 5 Sept 2025First Floor Front 22 Bannatyne Street Lanark ML11 7JR
Received 5 Sept 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart 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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