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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30,422 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Dryburgh Lane East Kilbride G74 1BQ
Received 23 Nov 2017125 Aitken Road Hamilton ML3 7YL
Received 20 Nov 201752 Townhead Street Stonehouse ML9 3EL
Received 13 Nov 201732 Greenfield Road Hamilton ML3 0NN
Received 7 Nov 201722 Sycamore Way Cambuslang G72 7FT
Received 6 Nov 201711 Sportsfield Road Hamilton ML3 8RF
Received 17 Oct 20179 Grieve Croft Bothwell G71 8LU
Received 25 Apr 201718 Sidehead Road Stonehouse Larkhall ML9 3EX
Received 10 Mar 2017Highlander International Recycling 7 Linwood Avenue College Milton Industrial Estate East Kilbride G74 5NE
Received 21 Jun 20168 Glen Street Cambuslang G72 8UR
Received 7 Jun 201626 Raeburn Avenue East Kilbride G74 3JW
Received 21 Mar 2016Portacabin Hamilton Retail Park Douglas Park Lane Hamilton ML3 0DF
Received 25 Feb 201639 Dalrymple Drive East Kilbride G74 4LG
Received 23 Dec 2015Former Freeneuk Childrens Home 61 Freeneuk Wynd Cambuslang
Received 3 Nov 2015Newton Farm Pod 2C Cambuslang
Received 28 Oct 2015Rigg Farm Quarry Chapelton Strathaven ML10 6SJ
Received 3 Nov 2016Burnbrae Farm Limekilnburn Road Hamilton Quarter ML3 7XG
Received 17 Oct 2016Rascals Nursery Balmoral Court Carstairs Junction Lanark ML11 8FB
Received 22 Sept 2016South East Corner Of Existing Agricultural Field To The West Of Duke Street, Larkhall.
Received 7 Sept 201626 Lochranza Drive East Kilbride G75 9NA
Received 1 Jul 2016Davaar 75 High Street Biggar ML12 6DL
Received 15 Jun 20163 Thomson Court Stonehouse ML9 3DT
Received 14 Mar 2016Libberton Mains Libberton ML11 8LX
Received 25 Feb 2016Land At Kingsgate Retail Park Glasgow Road East Kilbride G74 4UN
Received 5 Feb 2016Records 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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