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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30,356 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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: 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
15 Montrose Crescent Hamilton ML3 6LP
Received 4 Nov 2015Cathkin II Landfill Site Cairnmuir Road East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 4 Nov 201510 Waverley Drive Rutherglen G73 3HZ
Received 2 Nov 2015Land Adjacent To Duchess Place/Cunningham Road/Cambuslang Road Rutherglen G73 1PP
Received 23 Oct 201560 High Street Carluke ML8 4AJ
Received 23 Oct 2015Site Of Former Clyde Valley Garden Centre Lanark Road Larkhall
Received 16 Oct 2015Plot 3 Land Adjacent To 9B Old Bothwell Road Bothwell
Received 13 Mar 201729 Albany Drive Lanark ML11 9AG
Received 23 Feb 201789 Quarry Street Hamilton ML3 7AG
Received 20 Feb 201744 Cornfoot Crescent East Kilbride G74 3ZB
Received 20 Feb 2017Bents Road Chapelton
Received 18 Jan 20178 Green Street Bothwell G71 8RN
Received 9 Jan 201759 Hareleeshill Road Larkhall ML9 2RL
Received 30 Dec 201641 Southhill Avenue Rutherglen G73 3TB
Received 30 Dec 201653 Buchanan Drive Cambuslang G72 8BB
Received 30 Dec 2016Plot 3 North Fieldhead Farm Strathaven ML10 6QP
Received 23 Dec 2016Unit D Palace Grounds Retail Park Palace Grounds Road Hamilton ML3 6AD
Received 22 Dec 20163 Lindsayfield Road East Kilbride
Received 20 Dec 20166 Wallace Wynd Cambuslang G72 8SE
Received 12 Dec 2016Holm Road Crossford
Received 9 Dec 2016Plot 8 Mauldslie Estate Rosebank ML8 5QE
Received 18 Nov 2016Site Adj 97 Carlisle Road Ferniegair Hamilton ML3 7TU
Received 16 Nov 201675 Rederech Crescent Hamilton ML3 8QE
Received 14 Nov 20164 Croft Wynd Uddingston G71 7BJ
Received 29 Mar 2016Records 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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