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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30,422 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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: 27 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
30 Fishescoates Avenue Rutherglen G73 5DG
Received 7 Dec 20159 Auchingramont Road Hamilton ML3 6JP
Received 7 Dec 2015Unit 13 Mitchell Arcade Main Street Rutherglen
Received 1 Dec 2015Stoneyknowe Farm Sandilands Lanark ML11 9UA
Received 2 Nov 20157 Dornoch Way Blantyre G72 0GR
Received 7 May 2015The Saddlery East Browncastle Farm Browncastle Highway Strathaven ML10 6QW
Received 1 Aug 2014Tesco Bothwell Road Uddingston G71 7ET
Received 1 Aug 2014108 Brownside Road Cambuslang Glasgow G72 8AF
Received 1 Aug 2014North Fieldhead Farm Strathaven ML10 6QP
Received 9 Oct 201584 High Street Lanark ML11 7ES
Received 23 Sept 2015Land At Bothwell Road Uddingston
Received 17 Jul 2015The Black Bull Inn 83 Abbeygreen Lesmahagow ML11 0EF
Received 15 Jun 2015Upper Pettinain Village Pettinain
Received 15 Jun 2015Ground Floor Retail Unit 157-165 Quarry Street Hamilton ML3 7HR
Received 20 Apr 2015Ground Floor Retail Unit 157 - 165 Quarry Street Hamilton ML3 7HR
Received 20 Apr 201590 Tanzieknowe Road Cambuslang
Received 7 Apr 20157 Douglas Crescent Eddlewood Hamilton ML3 7SQ
Received 7 Apr 2015Land At 7 Old Bothwell Road Bothwell G71 8AW
Received 7 Apr 2015Site At Mannoch Hill Near Coalburn
Received 2 Mar 2015California Place Leadhills ML12 6YE
Received 22 Dec 20141 Peveril Avenue Rutherglen G73 4RD
Received 31 Oct 20144 Forrest Lane Carstairs Lanark ML11 8QB
Received 2 Sept 201418 Moss Side Crescent Biggar ML12 6GE
Received 25 Aug 201492 Farme Castle Court Cambuslang G73 1AD
Received 25 Aug 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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