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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
27,400 approved · 1,098 refused · 2,054 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Mar 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
22 Ontario Park East Kilbride G75 8LZ
Received 23 Mar 2026Land 140M East Of Cairngryffe Parish Church Devonside Road Carmichael Biggar
Received 5 Mar 2026Unit C Palace Grounds Retail Park Palace Grounds Road Hamilton ML3 6AD
Received 23 Mar 202620 Hozier Street Carluke ML8 5DW
Received 23 Mar 20266 Lomond East Kilbride G75 0BP
Received 23 Mar 2026South Lodge Braidwood House Bushelhead Road Braidwood Carluke ML8 5NE
Received 24 Mar 2026Land 82M East Of Block 4 West Faulds Road Caldwellside Industrial Estate Lanark
Received 25 Mar 202616 Muir Street Hamilton ML3 6EP
Received 25 Mar 202621B Douglas Gardens Uddingston G71 7HB
Received 25 Mar 2026Whitehills Farm Scholars Gate East Kilbride G75 9JL
Received 25 Mar 2026Land 200M WNW Of Police Training College Eaglesham Road Jackton
Received 25 Mar 2026Land 200M WNW Of Police Training College Eaglesham Road Jackton Glasgow
Received 25 Mar 2026Carluke MOT Centre Ltd Castlehill Industrial Estate Carluke ML8 5UF
Received 26 Mar 202611 Ormiston Drive Hamilton ML3 8AS
Received 26 Mar 202630 Stonehouse Road Strathaven ML10 6LF
Received 26 Mar 202619 Croftbank Avenue Bothwell G71 8RT
Received 27 Mar 202626 Torwood Brae Hamilton ML3 9XB
Received 27 Mar 2026David Lloyd Clubs Hamilton Mote Hill Hamilton ML3 6BY
Received 27 Mar 2026St Johns Kirk Symington Biggar ML12 6JU
Received 27 Mar 2026Medwyn Park Edinburgh Road Carnwath ML11 8HS
Received 27 Mar 202618 Sunnyside Street Larkhall ML9 1DG
Received 30 Mar 2026Greenshield House Wester Yardhouses Road Carnwath ML11 8LH
Received 30 Mar 202678 Union Street Hamilton ML3 6NE
Received 30 Mar 2026Kirkfield Lodge Kilbank Road Kirkfieldbank ML11 9UH
Received 30 Mar 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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