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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
30,341 approved · 1,251 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Cleughearn Lodge High Cleughearn Road East Kilbride Glasgow G75 9DP
Received 7 May 2015Nunnerie Farm Daer Water Elvanfoot Biggar ML12 6TJ
Received 23 Mar 2017346 Eaglesham Road Jackton G75 8RW
Received 1 Mar 2017Building Plot To North West Of Glebe Wynd Bothwell
Received 20 Feb 201726 Edinburgh Road Biggar ML12 6AX
Received 15 Feb 2017Sunnyside House Mousebank Road Lanark ML11 9UG
Received 13 Feb 2017Eastwood Farm Cottages Eastwood Road Lesmahagow ML11 9PS
Received 13 Feb 2017High Common Road To Torrance Roundabout On A726 Strathaven Road And Torrance Roundabout To Auldhouse Road On Greenhills Road
Received 25 Jan 2017Playsport Stewartfield Way East Kilbride G74 4GT
Received 13 Jan 201770 Calderglen Avenue Blantyre G72 9UN
Received 12 Dec 201689B Southcroft Road Rutherglen G73 1UG
Received 1 Dec 201620 Green Street Bothwell Glasgow G71 8RJ
Received 12 Oct 2016Site West Of Provost Gate Larkhall
Received 7 Nov 20161 Lyttleton East Kilbride G75 9BP
Received 12 Oct 20165 Carmichael Way Law Carluke ML8 5RJ
Received 17 Nov 20153 Classroom Close Hamilton ML3 8RS
Received 1 Sept 2015Unit 3 1 Wilson Street Hamilton
Received 1 Sept 201566 Callaghan Wynd Blantyre G72 9RP
Received 1 Sept 201561 Sandy Road Carluke ML8 5DH
Received 28 Aug 2015Hamilton Road Cambuslang G72 7XJ
Received 31 Aug 2015East Cathkin Farm East Kilbride Road Rutherglen G73 5RB
Received 5 Aug 201562 Wallace Wynd Cambuslang G72 8SE
Received 13 Jul 201594 Pentland Crescent Larkhall ML9 1UR
Received 9 Jun 20157 Chantinghall Road Hamilton ML3 8PN
Received 29 May 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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