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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30,422 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
18 Malcolm Gardens East Kilbride G74 1QX
Received 6 Oct 20141 Waterside Sandford Strathaven ML10 6PG
Received 30 Sept 20143 Albert Drive Burnside Rutherglen G73 3RT
Received 18 Aug 20143 Peel Park Place College Milton Indest East Kilbride G74 5LW
Received 31 Jul 2014Unit 10 A/B/C Cadzow Gait Low Waters Road Hamilton ML3 7QR
Received 31 Jul 2014BP Service Station Kingsway East Kilbride G74 3DS
Received 23 Aug 20175 Barn Street Strathaven ML10 6LU
Received 11 Aug 2017Lidl Bothwell Road Uddingston G71 7HA
Received 2 Aug 201756 Mote Hill Hamilton ML3 6EF
Received 28 Jun 20174 Lybster Way Blantyre G72 0GN
Received 16 Jun 201713 Waterloo Drive Lanark ML11 7QN
Received 15 Jun 2017Stroud Tavern Stroud Road East Kilbride G75 0YA
Received 1 Jun 201721 Braidwood Road Braidwood Carluke ML8 5PD
Received 31 May 201721 Macdairmid Drive Hamilton ML3 8AZ
Received 25 May 2017Wiston Lodge Millrig Road Wiston Biggar ML12 6HT
Received 24 May 201763 Rederech Crescent Hamilton ML3 8QE
Received 4 May 201759 Union Street Hamilton ML3 6NF
Received 2 May 2017120 Chatelherault Crescent Hamilton ML3 7PW
Received 28 Apr 2017142 Dalcraig Crescent Blantyre G72 9NH
Received 28 Apr 201718 Simpson Drive East Kilbride G75 0AZ
Received 10 Apr 20172 Larch Court Cambuslang G72 7FQ
Received 10 Apr 2017Waterfoot House Waterfoot Road Thorntonhall Glasgow G74 5AD
Received 28 Nov 2017Site South Of Avonpark Nursing Home Lesmahagow Road Strathaven ML10 6BZ
Received 12 Oct 20171 Rankin Gait Centre Hamilton Street Carluke ML8 4AT
Received 4 Oct 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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