Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
30,328 approved · 1,252 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
19 Rhyber Avenue Lanark ML11 7AP
Received 22 Apr 201422A North Back Road Biggar ML12 6EJ
Received 17 Apr 201480 Portland Place Hamilton ML3 7LA
Received 16 Apr 201451 Colvilles Place Kelvin Industrial Estate East Kilbride G75 0PZ
Received 16 Apr 201411 South Park Road Hamilton ML3 6PJ
Received 16 Apr 201457 Menteith Place High Burnside Glasgow G73 5RQ
Received 16 Apr 2014Meadowside Lesmahagow ML11 0HL
Received 14 Apr 201436 Merrylees Road Blantyre G72 9AT
Received 14 Apr 201423 Odense Court East Kilbride G75 0SA
Received 14 Apr 20141 Kent Place East Kilbride G75 8NE
Received 14 Apr 201452 - 58 Main Street Cambuslang G72 7EP
Received 11 Apr 201413 Berriedale Gardenhall East Kilbride G75 8ST
Received 10 Apr 2014Cornhill House Hotel Coulter Biggar ML12 6QE
Received 10 Apr 2014Homelands Osborne Crescent Thorntonhall South Lanarkshire G74 5AE
Received 20 Dec 2013Boghead Farm Strathaven Road Hamilton ML3 8RY
Received 19 Dec 2013Biggar Museum 9 Kirkstyle Biggar ML12 6DT
Received 9 Apr 2014Land Adj To Plot 5 Mill House Cleghorn Lanark
Received 8 Apr 2014Auchenheath Farm Lancaster Road Auchenheath Lanark ML11 9XA
Received 3 Apr 201419 Roxburgh Park East Kilbride G74 1NP
Received 1 Apr 2014Cloburn Quarry Lanark ML11 8SR
Received 31 Mar 2014Rosemount West Port Lanark
Received 27 Mar 20144 Wardlaw Grove Cleghorn ML11 7TA
Received 28 Mar 201418 Woodlea Blackwood ML11 9SY
Received 28 Mar 2014Phase 6 Newton Farm Cambuslang
Received 11 Jul 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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