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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
30,299 approved · 1,252 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 1 Nov 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land To North Of Strathaven Road Stonehouse
Received 11 Jul 2014Shields At Hamilton Whistleberry Road Hamilton ML3 0EJ
Received 11 Jul 2014Tesco Stores Gallowhill Road Lanark ML11 7AG
Received 11 Jul 20145 Woodside Crescent Carnwath Lanark ML11 8LD
Received 2 Jun 2014Dumfries Road - Site 2 Elvanfoot South Lanarkshire ML12 6TF
Received 29 May 20142 Manse Road Carstairs ML11 8PZ
Received 29 May 201420 Beecroft Place Blantyre G72 9HQ
Received 29 May 201440 Victoria Street Larkhall ML9 2BW
Received 29 May 20146 Anderson Gardens Blantyre G72 9AX
Received 28 May 20142 Alberta Avenue East Kilbride G75 8BF
Received 28 May 2014Land Adjacent To 109 Broompark Road Blantyre G72 9SH
Received 27 May 201432 A Greenlees Road Cambuslang G72 8NA
Received 27 May 2014Newlands Dairy Newlands Road East Kilbride G75 8RS
Received 28 Mar 2014Kirkton Street Carluke
Received 24 Mar 2014Land Adjacent To 109 Broompark Road Blantyre
Received 19 Mar 201426 Stonehouse Road Sandford Strathaven ML10 6PD
Received 18 Mar 2014Thorn Cottage - Ruin Chapelton Strathaven ML10 6SJ
Received 25 Feb 2014Overquarter Farm Yieldshields Road Carluke ML8 4QD
Received 4 Dec 201345 Mainsacre Drive Stonehouse ML9 3QH
Received 11 Jul 201432 Howieshill Road Cambuslang G72 8PW
Received 11 Jul 2014145 Dukes Road Rutherglen G73 5AE
Received 10 Jul 20142 Seamill Gardens East Kilbride G74 4XE
Received 10 Jul 201427 Beech Crescent Cambuslang Glasgow G72 7XG
Received 10 Jul 20143 Orchard Avenue Bothwell G71 8NF
Received 6 Jun 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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