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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
30,423 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 20 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 28 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24C Wellhall Road Hamilton
Received 18 Oct 2017Waterbank Farm Westerfield Road Carmunnock South Lanarkshire G76 9HS
Received 22 Sept 201756 Strawfrank Road Carstairs Junction Lanark ML11 8RD
Received 12 Sept 2017Site Next To Beechgrove Yieldshields Road Carluke ML8 4QE
Received 12 Sept 20176 Forge Court Kilncadzow Carluke South Lanarkshire ML8 4SE
Received 12 Sept 20177 Castledyke View Carstairs Lanark ML11 8ST
Received 12 Sept 20176 Wildman Road Law Carluke ML8 5ET
Received 13 Jul 2017Westgate School Road Carmichael Biggar ML12 6PG
Received 13 Jul 2017Park Road Biggar
Received 13 Jul 2017Dunavon 3 East Mains Holdings Manse Road Stonehouse Larkhall
Received 13 Jul 2017The Old Joiners Workshop Lamington By Biggar ML12 6HW
Received 31 Mar 20158 Dunrobin Drive Stewartfield East Kilbride G74 4SX
Received 31 Mar 2015Plot 501 At Pod H33 Lindsayfield East Kilbride
Received 31 Mar 2015St Johns Church Duke Street Hamilton ML3 7DT
Received 3 Nov 201432 Gilmour Drive Hamilton ML3 9UQ
Received 27 Oct 2014Plot 3 Auchtygemmel Farm Auchenheath
Received 27 Oct 201419 Mid Loan Street Braidwood ML8 5NX
Received 27 Oct 20146 Fortrose Gardens Strathaven ML10 6FH
Received 21 Oct 2014Unit 7 Goldie Road Bothwellpark Industrial Estate Uddingston G71 6NW
Received 25 Sept 2014Red Tree Business Centre 24 Stonelaw Road Rutherglen G73 3TW
Received 16 Sept 201410 Cairncross Crescent Lesmahagow ML11 0PR
Received 15 Sept 201430 Old Glasgow Road Uddingston G71 7HF
Received 22 Jul 2014Bankend Farm Drumclog Strathaven ML10 6RG
Received 17 Jul 201470 Scalloway Road Cambuslang G72 8QQ
Received 17 Nov 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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