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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30,422 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
5 Sweet Thorn Drive East Kilbride G75 9FR
Received 23 Feb 20173 Hunters Place East Kilbride G74 3HA
Received 12 Dec 201626 Albion Way Kelvin Ind Est East Kilbride G75 0YN
Received 26 Oct 2016156 Kylepark Drive Uddingston G71 7DB
Received 7 Sept 2016Green Apple Nursery 18 Clydesdale Street Hamilton ML3 0DA
Received 30 Aug 20165 Hamilton Drive Bothwell G77 8RR
Received 23 Dec 2014Drumshangie Laigh Carnduff Farm Strathaven ML10 6RP
Received 23 Dec 2014Carlise Road, North East Of JCT With Laverock Avenue Hamilton
Received 11 Dec 20145 Castlemains Crescent Uddingston G71 7ND
Received 2 Dec 2014Waterbank Farm Westerfield Road Carmunnock G76 9HS
Received 26 May 2016Carlisle Road Blackwood
Received 5 May 20161 Glebe Wynd Bothwell G71 8QT
Received 1 Apr 20161 Macarthur Drive East Kilbride
Received 18 Mar 2016Power Station Lanark Road Stonebyres Lanark ML11 9UP
Received 15 Feb 201631 Forest Road Larkhall ML9 2JH
Received 4 Feb 2016Mansewood Wilsontown Road Wilsontown ML11 8EP
Received 3 Feb 201610 Cartland Road Cartland Lanark ML11 7RF
Received 27 Jan 2016Former Hoover Factory Site Cambuslang
Received 22 Dec 201535 Larch Court Cambuslang G72 7FQ
Received 22 Dec 2015Unit 2 Birkhill Road Hamilton ML3 8BG
Received 22 Dec 20155 Wentworth Gardens East Kilbride G74 5PY
Received 3 Dec 201529 Novar Street Hamilton ML3 6TG
Received 16 Nov 201510 Pillans Court Hamilton ML3 0QD
Received 3 Nov 2015St Patricks Primary School Overton Road Strathaven ML10 6JW
Received 18 Sept 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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