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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25,736 approved · 980 refused · 1,952 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Mansefield Court Muirburn Road Glassford Strathaven ML10 6TR
Received 23 Oct 202510 Heath Road Larkhall ML9 2JE
Received 23 Oct 2025Land At Bellefield Road Lanark ML11 7RH
Received 23 Oct 202532 Lochalsh Place Blantyre G72 9LX
Received 23 Oct 2025Mashock Mill Braidwood Road Crossford Carluke ML8 5NQ
Received 24 Oct 2025Hall 3 Townhead Street Glassford Strathaven ML10 6TF
Received 27 Oct 202526 Wordsworth Way Bothwell G71 8QR
Received 27 Oct 202541 Kirklands Crescent Bothwell G71 8HJ
Received 27 Oct 202521 Campbell Crescent Bothwell G71 8HD
Received 27 Oct 202528 Lockhart Drive Lanark ML11 9HX
Received 27 Oct 2025Land 25M WSW Of Ambleside Crookedshields Road East Kilbride
Received 27 Oct 202547 Southhill Avenue Rutherglen G73 3TB
Received 27 Oct 202535 Common Green Strathaven ML10 6AQ
Received 27 Oct 202535 Common Green Strathaven ML10 6AQ
Received 27 Oct 2025Walston Parish Church Ogscastle Road Walston Lanark ML11 8NF
Received 27 Oct 202552 Overton Road Cambuslang G72 7QR
Received 28 Oct 202528 Bellflower Grove East Kilbride G74 4TB
Received 28 Oct 2025Glassford Water Treatment Works Bents And Station Highway Glassford ML10 6TX
Received 28 Oct 202547 Burns Park East Kilbride G74 3AP
Received 28 Oct 2025Glassford Water Treatment Works Bents And Station Highway Glassford ML10 6TX
Received 28 Oct 202528 Gallowhill Larkhall ML9 1EX
Received 28 Oct 20251 Glebe Crescent East Kilbride G74 4LT
Received 28 Oct 20254 South Deanpark Avenue Bothwell G71 8HG
Received 28 Oct 202525 Avonside Grove Hamilton ML3 7DL
Received 28 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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