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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30,422 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Whitehill Farm Carlisle Road Stonehouse Larkhall ML9 3PR
Received 14 Oct 2016Limewood 16 St Patricks Road Lanark ML11 9EH
Received 10 Oct 201697 Reid Street Rutherglen G73 3DR
Received 9 Sept 2016Arpochill Farm East Kilbride G75 0QL
Received 27 Jul 20162 Fraser Crescent Hamilton ML3 8LG
Received 6 Jun 201672 Main Street Carnwath Lanark ML11 8HH
Received 2 Jun 201611 Trent Place East Kilbride G75 8RU
Received 9 May 20163 Braefoot Lane Uddingston G71 7PP
Received 20 Apr 201615 Station Road Blantyre G72 9AA
Received 24 Feb 201656 Hamilton Road Cambuslang G72 7NU
Received 24 Feb 201623 Glen Grove East Kilbride G75 0BG
Received 24 Feb 20165 Greenshields Cottages Greenshields Biggar South Lanarkshire ML12 6RB
Received 24 Feb 2016Dawnfresh Seafoods Bothwell Industrial Estate Uddingston G71 6LS
Received 10 Sept 2015309 Main Street Blantyre G72 0DL
Received 30 Jun 20155 Carmichael Way Law Carluke ML8 5RJ
Received 26 Jun 201560 St Stephens Avenue Rutherglen G73 5NB
Received 15 May 201518 Avon Street Hamilton ML3 7HU
Received 15 May 201561 Pine Crescent East Kilbride G75 9HJ
Received 8 May 2015Napier Building Reynolds Avenue East Kilbride
Received 7 May 201538 South Park Road Hamilton ML3 6PN
Received 22 Apr 201536 Farm Road Blantyre G72 9AH
Received 14 Apr 201544 Neilvaig Drive Rutherglen Glasgow G73 4HQ
Received 7 Apr 201527 Harris Grove East Kilbride G75 8TU
Received 2 Apr 20153 McPherson Drive Bothwell G71 8QP
Received 22 Oct 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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