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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
30,422 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 26 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
40 Airdrie Road Carluke ML8 5EW
Received 16 Jan 201744 Claudius Crescent Cambuslang G72 8XD
Received 6 Dec 2016Land At Kittoch Place The Village East Kilbride
Received 16 Nov 2016Jackton View East Kilbride G75 9NN
Received 16 Nov 2016Springbank Farm Ayr Road Ravenstruther ML11 8SG
Received 24 Oct 2016Quothquan Lodge Libberton Muir Road Quothquan Biggar ML12 6NB
Received 8 Oct 2015Torrance Lodge Gatehouse Calderglen Country Park Strathaven Road East Kilbride G75 0QZ
Received 19 Jan 201830 Main Street Carnwath Lanark ML11 8JZ
Received 17 Jan 20182 Braxfield Road Lanark ML11 9AB
Received 18 Dec 20177 Drummond Place East Kilbride G74 3AD
Received 11 Dec 201710 Southcroft Road Biggar ML12 6AJ
Received 17 Jun 20151 Windmill Road Hamilton ML3 6LX
Received 1 May 201535 Millar Street Glassford Strathaven ML10 6TD
Received 9 Apr 2015North Carnduff Farm Carnview Bungalow Strathaven ML10 6RP
Received 9 Apr 201511 Watson Avenue Rutherglen G73 2NL
Received 12 Mar 201511 Cochrane Street Strathaven ML10 6ND
Received 26 Feb 2015First Steps Community Nursery Hillhouse Decant School Thornhill Road Hamilton ML3 9PS
Received 26 Feb 2015102 Union Street Larkhall
Received 9 Feb 2015International House Stanley Boulevard Hamilton Intl Tech PK Blantyre G72 0BN
Received 21 Nov 201446 Hepburn Hill Hamilton ML3 8AU
Received 7 Nov 201417 Bowling Green Road Strathaven ML10 6DR
Received 4 Nov 20148 Pine Crescent Hamilton ML3 8TZ
Received 4 Nov 2014Holm Road Crossford ML8 5RG
Received 15 Oct 201414 Burnhead Road Larkhall ML9 2EH
Received 8 Sept 2014Records 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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