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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
30,339 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 30 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
65 Buchanan Drive Cambuslang G72 8BE
Received 15 Feb 20169 Barn Lane Cambuslang G72 6ZQ
Received 10 Feb 201610 Laburnum Lea Hamilton ML3 7NA
Received 19 Jan 201615 Douglas Street Hamilton ML3 0BP
Received 17 Dec 20157 Kirklands Crescent Bothwell G71 8HJ
Received 16 Dec 2015West Newton Farm Newton Highway Strathaven ML10 6RB
Received 7 Dec 201514 Wellbrae Chapelton ML10 6RT
Received 23 Nov 201520/21 Princes Square East Kilbride Shopping Centre East Kilbride G74 1LJ
Received 26 Oct 2015Grass Verge Opposite Bankhouse Residential Care Home, Off New Trows Road, Lesmahagow, ML11 0EF
Received 22 Nov 2016352 - 356 Auldhouse Road Auldhouse East Kilbride G75 9DX
Received 2 May 2014Rigfoot Strathaven ML10 6RP
Received 21 Mar 201425 Elmbank Street Carluke ML8 4JE
Received 17 Jan 201496A Brownlee Road Law ML8 5JD
Received 28 May 20141 Windyridge Hamilton ML3
Received 28 May 2014Carlan Udston Mill Road Stonehouse ML9 3JL
Received 27 May 2014Limewood 16 St Patricks Road Lanark ML11 9EH
Received 27 May 2014Murdock House 29 Bothwell Road Uddingston
Received 16 May 20142 Braeview Place East Kilbride Glasgow G74 3XH
Received 27 Feb 2014Asda Clydeview Shopping Centre Glasgow Road Blantyre G72 0AQ
Received 6 Mar 201438 Alford Avenue Blantyre G72 0GS
Received 27 Jan 201421 Ambleside Rise Hamilton ML3 7HJ
Received 27 Jan 201412 Boreland Drive Hamilton ML3 9DF
Received 27 Jan 2014North Fieldhead Farm Strathaven ML10 6QP
Received 27 Jan 20143 Graham Avenue The Village East Kilbride G74 4JZ
Received 7 Jan 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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