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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
25,867 approved · 992 refused · 1,959 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 10 Apr 2006 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 23 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2A Hamilton Road Bothwell G71 8NE
Received 29 Oct 2025351 Main Street Blantyre G72 0DJ
Received 29 Oct 202511 Middleton Avenue Strutherhill Industrial Estate Larkhall ML9 2TL
Received 29 Oct 2025Ampherlaw Cottage Ampherlaw Farm Westsidewood Road Carnwath Lanark ML11 8LH
Received 29 Oct 2025Land 125M ESE Of Knowehead Farm Blackburnmill Highway Strathaven ML10 6RP
Received 30 Oct 2025Land Adjacent To 2 Bridgend View Bridgend View Carluke ML8 4HD
Received 30 Oct 202538 Peel Park Place College Milton Industrial Estate East Kilbride G74 5LW
Received 31 Oct 20253 St James Court East Kilbride G74 5QE
Received 31 Oct 202524 Shelley Drive Bothwell G71 8TA
Received 3 Nov 20257 Corless Court Uddingston G71 7JW
Received 3 Nov 2025Burnfoot A702 From Abington A73 At Duneatonfoot To A72 At Biggar Lamington Biggar ML12 6HR
Received 3 Nov 2025Land 175M West Of 302 Carlisle Road Carlisle Road Kirkmuirhill ML11 9RA
Received 3 Nov 202564B Main Street Douglas ML11 0QG
Received 4 Nov 20257 Broadleaf Court Glassford Strathaven ML10 6GF
Received 5 Nov 20252 Wallace Place Hamilton ML3 7DE
Received 4 Nov 20253 Goldsmith Avenue Hamilton ML3 7GT
Received 5 Nov 202546 Maclean Place East Kilbride G74 4TQ
Received 5 Nov 2025Land 25M South Of 3 Ayr Road Ayr Road Shawsburn Larkhall
Received 5 Nov 2025Langlands West Greenhills Road East Kilbride G75 0QQ
Received 5 Nov 2025Land To The East Of Clyde Avenue Ferniegair Hamilton ML3 7TY
Received 5 Nov 2025Dungavel House IRC Hamilton Drive Dungavel Strathaven ML10 6RF
Received 6 Nov 2025Dungavel House IRC Hamilton Drive Dungavel Strathaven ML10 6RF
Received 6 Nov 2025Smiddy View C26 From A70 At Sandilands To A73 At Warrenhill Carmichael Biggar ML12 6NG
Received 6 Nov 2025Land 25M NNE Of Inver Cottage Carmunnock Road Clarkston Glasgow
Received 6 Nov 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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