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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
30,399 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Costcutters Unit 1A Greenhills Square Greenhills Shopping Centre East Kilbride G75 8TT
Received 6 Feb 201540 Cooper Avenue Carluke ML8 5US
Received 6 Feb 201516 Murdoch Avenue Cambuslang G72 8WP
Received 6 Feb 2015349 Kingsacre Road Rutherglen G73 2EL
Received 5 Feb 2015Old Mill Road Uddingston
Received 19 Jan 2015145 Glen Avenue Larkhall ML9 1LB
Received 27 Nov 201424 Silvertonhill Avenue Hamilton ML3 7ND
Received 27 Nov 2014Vacant Ground On Draffan Road Netherburn
Received 27 Nov 201411 Buchanan Drive Carluke ML8 4RN
Received 27 Nov 2014236 Brownside Road Rutherglen Glasgow G73 5BE
Received 27 Nov 2014Plot 1 Earls Gate Bothwell
Received 27 Nov 201419 Main Street Bothwell G71 8RD
Received 22 Dec 2017145 Murray Drive Stonehouse ML9 3NJ
Received 5 Dec 20174B Mill Road Bothwell G71 8DQ
Received 4 Dec 2017Land 56M Southwest Of Dunroamin Bushelhead Road Braidwood Carluke South Lanarkshire
Received 20 Nov 201726 St Bryde Street East Kilbride G74 4HQ
Received 7 Nov 201746 Glen Ogilvie East Kilbride G74 3SY
Received 7 Nov 2017Avonbank Road Larkhall ML9 1QS
Received 30 Oct 201791 Cadzow Street Hamilton ML3 6DY
Received 13 Oct 201737 Menteith Place Rutherglen G73 5RQ
Received 14 Sept 201725 Hunters Crescent East Kilbride G74 3HY
Received 7 Sept 2017Land At 1 Wilson Place East Kilbride G74 4QD
Received 22 Jun 20171 Vicars Road Stonehouse Larkhall ML9 3EB
Received 19 May 2017Land At Letham Farm Lesmahagow
Received 21 Apr 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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