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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
30,356 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 29 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
13 Hutchison Street Hamilton ML3 7LQ
Received 11 Feb 2015Blairtum Park House 34 Broomieknowe Road Rutherglen Glasgow
Received 22 Dec 2014Proposed Broadband Cabinet - 12M Nnw Of 100 King Street King Street Rutherglen Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 14 Mar 2017Knightswood Terrace Blantyre
Received 7 Sept 20152 Hamilton Retail Park Douglas Park Lane Hamilton ML3 0DF
Received 15 Jul 20151 A Langlands Drive Kelvin South Business Park East Kilbride G75 0YH
Received 22 May 20156 Bourtree Crescent Law Carluke ML8 5GH
Received 18 May 20155-7 Dalmarnock Road Rutherglen Glasgow G73 1NY
Received 12 May 2015Hallside Primary School Newton Station Road Cambuslang G72 7XN
Received 29 Jan 2018Land 49M Southeast Of Heads Cottage Heads Highway Glassford Strathaven South Lanarkshire
Received 12 Jan 2018Abbeyfield House 1-3 Station Road Strathaven ML10 6BE
Received 18 Sept 2017North Cottage Yieldshields Farm Cleghorn ML11 8PA
Received 24 Dec 2013Plot Adjoining Braeside Cottage Yieldshields Road Carluke ML8 4QB
Received 23 Dec 201356 Redwood Crescent Hamilton ML3 8SZ
Received 5 Mar 20145 Turnberry Wynd Bothwell G71 8EE
Received 5 Mar 2014Plot 1, 30 Lesmahagow Road Boghead ML11 0JA
Received 27 Feb 2014The Cottage Stonebyres Kirkfieldbank Lanark ML11 9UW
Received 27 Feb 2014The Cottage Stonebyres Kirkfieldbank Lanark ML11 9UW
Received 27 Feb 20147 Mandora Court Carluke ML8 4RE
Received 27 Feb 2014Site Adjacent To Wiston Mill Farm Wiston
Received 19 May 2014Cobblehaugh Farm Cobblehaugh Road Lanark ML11 8SG
Received 19 May 2014East Hyndshawland Farm A721 From Carnwath To A702 Melbourne Elsrickle Biggar ML12 6RD
Received 19 May 2014Existing Telecommunications Site On Mossneuk Road East Kilbride
Received 13 May 2014Dooneigh 8 Victoria Avenue Carluke ML8 5AG
Received 12 May 2014Records 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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