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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
26,989 approved · 1,068 refused · 2,031 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Spittal Farm Spittal Road Carnwath ML11 8LY
Received 12 Feb 2026Chatelherault Inn 94 Carlisle Road Ferniegair ML3 7TX
Received 12 Feb 2026Crossbasket Castle Stoneymeadow Road Blantyre G72 9UE
Received 13 Feb 20268 Greystone Close Strathaven ML10 6FW
Received 16 Feb 20262 Meek Place Cambuslang G72 8LN
Received 16 Feb 202615 Friars Lane Lanark ML11 9EL
Received 16 Feb 202633 Priory Drive Uddingston G71 7DS
Received 16 Feb 2026Weir 90M West Of Craighead Mill Carlisle Road Lesmahagow Lanark
Received 17 Feb 202610 Cooper Court Carnwath ML11 8HE
Received 17 Feb 202662 Turnberry Place East Kilbride G75 8TD
Received 17 Feb 20261 Firlee East Kilbride G75 8SZ
Received 18 Feb 20265 Barons Gate Bothwell G71 8SJ
Received 18 Feb 2026The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints Woodfoot Road Hamilton ML3 8RA
Received 18 Feb 202623 Highburgh Drive Rutherglen G73 3RR
Received 19 Feb 202641 North Street Strathaven ML10 6JL
Received 19 Feb 202615 Honeydew Drive Cambuslang G72 6PA
Received 20 Feb 20267 Goodview Gardens Larkhall ML9 2LA
Received 20 Feb 202632 Drumgray Avenue Uddingston G71 7FD
Received 20 Feb 202699 Carlisle Road Stonehouse ML9 3PN
Received 20 Feb 2026Site Of Former Lindsay House 37 Kittoch Street East Kilbride
Received 20 Feb 2026Land 200M North Of Burnbank Darvel Road Strathaven
Received 20 Feb 2026218 Mill Street Rutherglen G73 2NE
Received 20 Feb 2026Land 400M Southwest Of Townfoot Farm Blantyre Farm Road Blantyre
Received 20 Feb 2026150 Warwick East Kilbride G74 3PY
Received 20 Feb 2026Records 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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