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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
30,385 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Belstane Racing Stables Belstane Road Carluke ML8 5HN
Received 28 Dec 20168 Church Street Chapelton Strathaven ML10 6SD
Received 28 Dec 2016Yieldshields Road Carluke ML8 4QE
Received 23 Nov 2016Site Adjacent To Salisbury Cottage Rigside Lanark ML11 9TU
Received 16 Nov 20166 Secaurin Avenue Stonehouse ML9 3NZ
Received 4 Nov 2016Hamilton Race Course Bothwell Road Hamilton ML3 0DW
Received 24 Oct 2016Land Adj To Beachlea Yieldshields Road Carluke ML8 4QY
Received 13 Sept 201674 Tanzieknowe Road Cambuslang G72 8RE
Received 13 Sept 2016Blackwood Estate Blackwood ML11 0JG
Received 3 Jun 2016134 Fleming Way Hamilton ML3 9QH
Received 9 May 201622 Muirlaun Forth Lanark ML11 8AQ
Received 20 Apr 201612 Hillhouse Farm Gate Lanark ML11 9HT
Received 8 Apr 2016Kype Muir Wind Farm Near Strathaven
Received 10 Nov 2015Cadzow Industrial Estate Hamilton
Received 5 Nov 201591 Calderwood Road Rutherglen G73 3PJ
Received 4 Nov 201515 Castlecroft Gardens Uddingston G71 7QZ
Received 30 Oct 201511 James Shepherd Grove East Kilbride G75 8WT
Received 6 Apr 2017Ground To Rear Of 106 Old Glasgow Road Uddingston G71 7QA
Received 5 Apr 20170-1 12 Drumilaw Road Rutherglen Glasgow South Lanarkshire G73 4NU
Received 5 Apr 2017Plot 4, Bridgend View Carluke
Received 24 Mar 2017325 Kings Park Avenue Rutherglen G73 2AQ
Received 17 Mar 201715 Stonebyres Holdings Stonebyres Lanark ML11 9UW
Received 9 Feb 2017368 Kings Park Avenue Rutherglen G73 2AL
Received 26 Jan 201718 Lanark Road Carluke ML8 4HE
Received 18 Jan 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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