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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
30,343 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
62 Anstruther Street Law ML8 5JG
Received 7 Jan 2014164 Hamilton Road Rutherglen G73 3BD
Received 2 Jun 2014Site Of Former Holy Cross High School Muir Street Hamilton
Received 2 Jun 2014104 High Street Biggar ML12 6DH
Received 30 May 2014Cockrig Farm Cleghorn Lanark ML11 8PB
Received 30 May 201456 McNeil Street Larkhall ML9 1BN
Received 30 May 20148 Waverley Street Larkhall ML9 1PY
Received 30 May 201422 Coniston Crescent Hamilton ML3 7HP
Received 30 May 2014Coney Croft Dolphinton West Linton EH46 7HH
Received 30 May 20143 Point Park Crescent Uddingston G71 7NY
Received 28 May 201410A Knowehead Drive Uddingston G71 6PX
Received 28 May 20142 Mill Road Bothwell G71 8DQ
Received 11 Aug 2015Coulter Haugh Farm Coulter Haugh Road Coulter Biggar ML12 6PR
Received 7 Aug 201545 Thornton Road Kirkmuirhill Lanark ML11 9QE
Received 5 Aug 2015Nerston Residential School Glasgow Road East Kilbride G74 4PD
Received 4 Aug 2015Smiddy Cottage Craigenhill Road Kilncadzow
Received 4 Aug 2015Greyfriars Riding School Blantyre Farm Road Blantyre G71 7RR
Received 3 Aug 20155 Scholars Wynd Hamilton ML3 8RE
Received 31 Jul 2015Newton Farm Pod 2C Cambuslang
Received 30 Jul 20153 Car Park Spaces Located At The Princes Mall End Of East Kilbride Shopping Centre G74 1LL
Received 30 Jul 2015Roadhead Farm Shieldhill Road Quothquan Biggar ML12 6ND
Received 28 Jul 201517 Burnbank Road Hamilton ML3 9AA
Received 2 Jun 201519 Vicars Road Stonehouse Larkhall ML9 3EB
Received 1 May 201515 Heather Road Nemphlar Lanark ML11 9JG
Received 8 Apr 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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