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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
25,225 approved · 943 refused · 1,929 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 Oct 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Rosedale East Kilbride G74 4QW
Received 8 Sept 202512 Old Coach Road East Kilbride G74 4DP
Received 8 Sept 2025Land To The South Of Highstonehall Road Hamilton ML3 9LR
Received 5 Sept 2025Carnwath Golf Club 1 Main Street Carnwath Lanark ML11 8JX
Received 8 Sept 202560 Carlisle Road Larkhall ML9 2TL
Received 8 Sept 2025300 Curtis Avenue Rutherglen G44 4NF
Received 9 Sept 2025Stonehill Forest B740 From Crawfordjohn B7078 Towards Sanquhar Crawfordjohn Biggar
Received 9 Sept 2025161 Castlemilk Road Rutherglen G44 4NA
Received 9 Sept 2025234 Kingsbridge Drive Rutherglen G73 2BL
Received 9 Sept 2025304A Main Street Blantyre G72 0DH
Received 10 Sept 2025Strathaven Road Hamilton
Received 9 Sept 2025Bonnington Power Station Bonnington Lanark ML11 9TB
Received 10 Sept 2025Power Station Lanark Road Stonebyres Lanark ML11 9UP
Received 10 Sept 2025Walesley Farm Low Kype Road Strathaven ML10 6PT
Received 10 Sept 2025Land At Langshaw Farm Boghall Road Braidwood Carluke ML8 5PF
Received 10 Sept 202520 Chestnut Crescent Hamilton ML3 7HD
Received 10 Sept 2025107 Harvester Avenue Cambuslang G72 6AS
Received 11 Sept 2025Land To The South Of Highstonehall Road Hamilton
Received 1 Sept 2025Land 25M South Of 209 Main Street Main Street Rutherglen
Received 12 Sept 2025Land 25M South Of 209 Main Street Main Street Rutherglen G73 2HG
Received 12 Sept 2025Land 17M North Of 70 Main Street Main Street Rutherglen G73 2HY
Received 12 Sept 2025Land 17M North Of 70 Main Street Main Street Rutherglen
Received 12 Sept 2025Land 38M South Of 12 Muirbank Gardens Muirbank Gardens Rutherglen G73 2DL
Received 15 Sept 202516 Woodlands Terrace Uddingston Road Bothwell G71 8PR
Received 15 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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