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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30,422 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
75 Westburn Drive Cambuslang G72 7NA
Received 19 Apr 2016Pod 2C Newton Farm Cambuslang
Received 4 Apr 2016184 Main Street, Rutherglen G73 2HW
Received 15 Mar 201628 Pitcairn Crescent East Kilbride G75 8TP
Received 3 Mar 2016Orchard House Crossford Carluke ML8 5PY
Received 17 Feb 2016Land Off Lower Throughburn Farm Forth Lanark ML11 8HD
Received 10 Feb 2016Sherifflats Road / Boat Road Thankerton ML12 6PA
Received 9 Dec 20159 Brodick Drive East Kilbride G74 4QU
Received 11 Nov 2015Land At Lowberry Hill Farm Chapelton ML10 6RR
Received 2 Nov 201525 Loch Shin East Kilbride G74 2DH
Received 22 Feb 201616 West Mains Road East Kilbride G74 1PJ
Received 21 Jan 20161 Gardenside Street Uddingston G71 7BY
Received 19 Jan 2016Lanark Railway Station Bannatyne Street Lanark ML11 7JP
Received 7 Nov 201714 Clydebrae Drive Bothwell G71 8SB
Received 27 Oct 201728 Stonehouse Road Sandford Strathaven ML10 6PD
Received 16 Oct 201711 Hill Road Stonehouse ML9 3EA
Received 28 Sept 201779A Fallside Road Bothwell G71 8BQ
Received 30 Jan 201811 Findhorn Place East Kilbride G75 8NG
Received 26 Jan 201811 Macdonald Avenue East Kilbride G74 4SN
Received 30 Jan 201896 Glen Prosen East Kilbride G74 3TA
Received 26 Jan 201837 Glen Lethnot East Kilbride G74 3UZ
Received 26 Jan 2018Hamilton Hall Dalserf Parish Church Kirk Road Dalserf ML9 3BL
Received 16 Jul 201422 Abbotsford Crescent Strathaven ML10 6EQ
Received 20 Jul 2016Avon Bar 107 Wellhall Road Hamilton ML3 9UE
Received 23 Dec 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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