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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
25,539 approved · 966 refused · 1,942 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
17 Dee Place East Kilbride G75 8RZ
Received 9 Oct 2025Army Cadet Hall Mousebank Lane Lanark ML11 7PP
Received 9 Oct 2025Site 84M SE Of 1 Milton Road Milton Road College Milton Industrial Estate East Kilbride
Received 9 Oct 202511 Leven Way East Kilbride G75 8NQ
Received 10 Oct 2025Coalburn 1 BESS B7078 From Cairnhouses C13 To Millbank Int A70 Lesmahagow Lanark ML11 0SX
Received 9 Oct 2025Coalburn 1 BESS B7078 From Cairnhouses C13 To Millbank Int A70 Lesmahagow Lanark ML11 0SX
Received 9 Oct 2025136 Strathaven Road Hamilton ML3 7TN
Received 13 Oct 202524 Pentland Crescent Larkhall ML9 1UR
Received 13 Oct 202566 East Kilbride Road Rutherglen G73 5DP
Received 13 Oct 20253 Smallburn Drive Strathaven ML10 6ZJ
Received 13 Oct 202524 Jane Drive East Kilbride G75 7BD
Received 13 Oct 20252A Douglas Street Larkhall ML9 2AZ
Received 13 Oct 2025Crossbasket Nursery School Stoneymeadow Road Blantyre G72 9UE
Received 13 Oct 202515 Hagholm Road Cleghorn Lanark ML11 7SG
Received 13 Oct 20251 Silverwells Bothwell G71 8AZ
Received 13 Oct 202556 Lanark Road Crossford Carluke ML8 5RE
Received 14 Oct 2025Birnam Motor Salvage Blantyre Farm Road Blantyre G71 7RN
Received 14 Oct 202531 Dunlop Crescent Bothwell G71 8SG
Received 15 Oct 202529 Glen Devon East Kilbride G74 2JP
Received 15 Oct 2025Land 1500M Nne Of Dryburn Bridge A70 From Carnwath To Boundary By Tarbrax West Calder EH55 8LP
Received 15 Oct 2025Broadhouse Lea A706 From Lanark To Forth Cleghorn Lanark ML11 8PA
Received 15 Oct 20253 East Nerston Court East Kilbride G74 4GW
Received 15 Oct 2025Mill Rig Wind Farm On Land To The North-west Of Muirkirk And South-east Of Darvel
Received 16 Oct 2025Heathland Wind Farm A706 From Forth To Northern Boundary Wilsontown Lanark
Received 16 Oct 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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