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
30,422 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
2 Braxfield Road Lanark ML11 9AB
Received 17 Oct 20142 Braxfield Road Lanark ML11 9AB
Received 17 Oct 2014117 Quarry Street Hamilton ML3 7DR
Received 26 Sept 20145-7 Dalmarnock Road Rutherglen Glasgow G73 1NY
Received 15 Sept 2014East Hallside Farm Hallside Road Cambuslang Glasgow G72 7XE
Received 29 Aug 2014Land To The Northwest Of Jerviswood Road Jerviswood Road Lanark ML11 7QS
Received 28 Apr 201648 Vere Road Blackwood Kirkmuirhill ML11 9RP
Received 30 Mar 201611 Borthwick Drive East Kilbride G75 8YH
Received 17 Mar 201628 Montrose Crescent Hamilton ML3 6LG
Received 4 Feb 201613 Zambesi Drive Blantyre G72 9JP
Received 4 Feb 2016112 Hillhouse Road Hamilton ML3 9TE
Received 25 Jan 2016Wee Bing Tarbrax
Received 25 Jan 201627 Caithness Road East Kilbride G74 3NT
Received 25 Jan 201626 Burnhead Road Larkhall ML9 2EH
Received 22 Jan 20166 Brownside Road Cambuslang G72 8NL
Received 21 Dec 201531 Scotia Gardens Hamilton ML3 8XA
Received 11 Dec 2015Milton Rovers Youth Football Club Training Ground Burn Road Carluke ML8 5BZ
Received 24 Nov 20156 St Ronans Drive Hamilton ML3 8ES
Received 20 Nov 20159 Gateside View Lesmahagow Lanark ML11 0QX
Received 12 Nov 201512 Friars Lane Lanark ML11 9EL
Received 19 Oct 201512 Friars Lane Lanark ML11 9EL
Received 19 Oct 2015The Glebe Carnwath Road Elsrickle Biggar
Received 8 Feb 201681 A Union Street Larkhall ML9 1DZ
Received 8 Feb 20161 Wilkie Road Bothwell Park Industrial Estate Uddingston
Received 2 Dec 2015Records 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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