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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
30,402 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Site Of Former Holy Cross High School Muir Street Hamilton ML3 6EY
Received 1 May 20157 Bennan Place East Kilbride G75 9NR
Received 20 Apr 2015Laighbent Cottage Breckonridge Highway Strathaven ML10 6QD
Received 8 Apr 20153 Silverwells Drive Bothwell G71 8FF
Received 8 Apr 201510 Huntly Drive Cambuslang G72 8PU
Received 7 Apr 2015Land To North East Of Stanmore House Stanmore Road Lanark ML11 7RR
Received 20 Mar 201530 Allanshaw Gardens Hamilton ML3 8NU
Received 20 Mar 2015Calderside Road East Kilbride G72 0TN
Received 3 Mar 201567 Oak Wynd Cambuslang G72 7GS
Received 3 Mar 2015East Overton House Hamilton Road Strathaven ML10 6SZ
Received 26 Jan 2018Plot 2 Hollow Glen Kirkfield Brae Lanark
Received 26 Jan 20184 Flemington Avenue Strathaven ML10 6FJ
Received 13 Dec 2017Proposed Broadband Cabinet - 23M Southwest Of 9 Townhead Street Townhead Street Hamilton South Lanarkshire
Received 11 Dec 20173 Auchingramont Road Hamilton ML3 6JP
Received 26 Jul 201711 Rhymiebank Stonehouse Larkhall ML9 3QT
Received 6 Jun 2017320 Glasgow Road Blantyre G72 9LQ
Received 1 Jun 201712 Oak Fern Grove East Kilbride G74 4UG
Received 18 May 201769 Bothwell Road Hamilton ML3 0DW
Received 25 Apr 201722 Armour Court Blantyre Glasgow G72 9TS
Received 10 Mar 2017Stone Ring Old Market Road Lanark
Received 8 Feb 20179 Brown Street Larkhall ML9 2BX
Received 19 Jan 2017Laigh Brownmuir House Glassford Strathaven ML10 6TX
Received 7 Dec 20168 Cullin Park Grove Strathaven ML10 6EN
Received 28 Nov 2016First Floor Flat 58 Main Street Uddingston G71 7LR
Received 25 Feb 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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