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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30,422 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Blairston Avenue Bothwell G71 8RU
Received 25 Jun 2015Midlanrigg Farm Stables Dykehead Road Stonehouse Larkhall ML9 3PD
Received 3 Mar 2015Land Known As East Overton Glassford Road Strathaven
Received 22 Dec 20141 Sherbrooke Place East Kilbride G75 8SG
Received 15 Aug 2017Land To The North Of Highstonehall Road Hamilton
Received 9 Aug 2017Duneaton House Church Lane Wiston Biggar ML12 6GA
Received 27 Jul 201791 Brackenhill Drive Hamilton ML3 8AY
Received 11 Jul 20172 Langlands Road Auldhouse G75 9DW
Received 7 Jul 2017Kirkhill Bowling Club 53 Stewarton Drive Cambuslang G72 8DP
Received 8 Jun 2017374 Kings Park Avenue Rutherglen G73 2AL
Received 8 Jun 201739 Oak Wynd Cambuslang G72 7GS
Received 7 Jun 2017Nellfield Filling Station 88 Lanark Road Braidwood Carluke ML8 5PG
Received 6 Nov 2017Southfield Farm Southfield Road Kirkmuirhill Lanark ML11 9PL
Received 6 Nov 2017Unit 7 Goldie Road Bothwell Park Industrial Estate Uddingston G71 6NW
Received 18 Oct 201717 Lilac Wynd Cambuslang G72 7GH
Received 15 Sept 201746 Kirkoswald East Kilbride G74 3SJ
Received 9 Aug 201711 Richmond Drive Rutherglen G73 3JH
Received 9 Aug 2017Wellbeck House Sheltered Housing 30 Stuart Street East Kilbride G74 4NG
Received 9 Aug 20173 Westbank Holdings Ayr Road Ravenstruther Lanark ML11 8NL
Received 2 Aug 201738 Old Coach Road East Kilbride G74 4DT
Received 26 Jul 201714 Cedar Place Blantyre G72 9QQ
Received 18 Jul 2017Unit 9 Block 2 First Road Blantyre Industrial Estate Blantyre G72 0ND
Received 27 Jun 201729 Acacia Way Cambuslang G72 7ZY
Received 20 Jun 2017Unit 1 William Armstrong Centre Goldie Road Bothwell Park Industrial Estate Uddingston
Received 9 May 2017Records 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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