Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
28,493 approved · 1,151 refused · 2,107 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 25 Jul 2005 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 24 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
51 Main Street Forth Lanark ML11 8BS
Received 24 Jun 2026Alistair Mccoist Complex Quarry Road East Kilbride G75 9LW
Received 24 Jun 2026Land 1.5km Northwest Of Woolfords Cottages C203 From Woolfords To A70 At Carnwath Woolfords West Calder
Received 24 Jun 2026Nether Lethame Farm C196 Carnduff Highway Strathaven ML10 6RW
Received 24 Jun 202632 Waterloo Road Lanark ML11 7PZ
Received 25 Jun 20265 Bothwell Road Uddingston G71 7EY
Received 23 Jun 2026Land Adjacent To 20 Dunrobin Drive East Kilbride G74 4SX
Received 25 Jun 202616 Stirling Drive Hamilton ML3 9HL
Received 25 Jun 20261 Aitken Road Hamilton ML3 7YA
Received 25 Jun 2026Land 36M Southwest Of 35 Lanark Road Lanark Road Ravenstruther Lanark ML11 7SS
Received 25 Jun 2026Stonefield Football Pitches, John Street, Blantyre, G72
Received 25 Jun 2026Asda Clydeview Shopping Centre Glasgow Road Blantyre G72 0AQ
Received 26 Jun 2026Auchinoon Energy Park
Received 26 Jun 202619 St Vincent Place East Kilbride G75 8NT
Received 26 Jun 2026The Steading At East Rogerton Farm Nerston Road East Kilbride G74 4NX
Received 29 Jun 2026Lockups On North Side Of Strathcona Lane East Kilbride
Received 29 Jun 2026The Pines 40 Abington Road Symington Biggar ML12 6JX
Received 29 Jun 202670 Greenlees Road Cambuslang G72 8DX
Received 29 Jun 2026Midlock Farm Campswater Road Crawford Biggar ML12 6UA
Received 29 Jun 2026The Old Toll House A70 From Douglas To Rigside Lanark ML11 9PD
Received 29 Jun 202629 Birdsfield Drive Blantyre G72 0XW
Received 29 Jun 20262 Lower Auchingramont Road Hamilton ML3 6HW
Received 29 Jun 20262 Lower Auchingramont Road Hamilton ML3 6HW
Received 29 Jun 202640 St Leonard Street Lanark ML11 7BH
Received 30 Jun 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage