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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
25,736 approved · 980 refused · 1,952 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Flat 1 18 Silverwells Crescent Bothwell G71 8DR
Received 16 Oct 2025Mill 2 New Lanark Road Lanark ML11 9DB
Received 16 Oct 20251 Hunston Avenue Hamilton ML3 9FP
Received 17 Oct 2025Beit Al Noor Springbank West Mains Road East Kilbride G74 1PT
Received 17 Oct 2025Flat 1 18 Silverwells Crescent Bothwell G71 8DR
Received 17 Oct 20256 Clyde Road Douglas Lanark ML11 0QF
Received 20 Oct 202534 Collie Wynd Cambuslang G72 6WF
Received 20 Oct 20251 Vicars Road Stonehouse ML9 3EB
Received 20 Oct 202512 Waterloo Drive Lanark ML11 7QN
Received 20 Oct 202517 Dunn Crescent Coalburn ML11 0LR
Received 20 Oct 20256 Clyde Grove Crossford Carluke ML8 5WN
Received 20 Oct 2025Bankhead Farm Biggar Road Carnwath Lanark ML11 8LU
Received 20 Oct 2025Unit B Block 9A South Avenue Blantyre Industrial Estate Blantyre G72 0XB
Received 20 Oct 2025Gilkerscleugh Mains Farm Craighead Road Abington ML12 6SQ
Received 21 Oct 202516 Stein Terrace Ferniegair ML3 7FR
Received 21 Oct 202554 Coldstream Drive Rutherglen G73 3LH
Received 21 Oct 202542 Andrew Paton Way Hamilton ML3 0GB
Received 21 Oct 202510 Balfron Crescent Hamilton ML3 9UH
Received 22 Oct 2025Devonside Thorniehills Road Sandilands Lanark ML11 9TP
Received 22 Oct 202511 Peebles Drive Rutherglen G73 3JY
Received 22 Oct 2025Knockan Sewage Works Carlisle Road Lesmahagow Lanark ML11 0HU
Received 22 Oct 2025K-Park Training Academy Calderglen Country Park Strathaven Road East Kilbride G75 0QZ
Received 22 Oct 2025The Bungalow Townfoot Farm Blantyre Farm Road Blantyre G71 7RR
Received 23 Oct 20252 Mansefield Court Muirburn Road Glassford Strathaven ML10 6TR
Received 23 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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