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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
30,282 approved · 1,252 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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 95M Northwest Of St Brides Farm High Kype Road Strathaven South Lanarkshire
Received 5 Dec 20171A Greenhills Square East Kilbride G75 8TT
Received 29 Nov 201725 Langside Road Bothwell G71 8NQ
Received 8 Nov 201719 Kent Drive Rutherglen G73 5AP
Received 26 Oct 2017Brookside Garden Centre Lanark Road End Larkhall ML9 2UG
Received 26 Oct 201717 Beech Crescent Cambuslang G72 7XG
Received 25 Oct 201725 Philips Walk Hamilton ML3 8PL
Received 28 Sept 2017Chapelton Waste Treatment Works Chapelton ML10 6RR
Received 18 Aug 2015200 Blair Road Crossford Carluke ML8 5QR
Received 31 Jul 2015Kittochside Cottage Carmunnock Road Kittochside Glasgow G76 9ET
Received 13 Jul 201512 Glen Tanner East Kilbride G74 2JF
Received 26 Jun 2015107 North Vennel Lanark ML11 7PT
Received 26 Jun 20156 Kentmere Drive East Kilbride G75 8YX
Received 26 Jun 2015Broughton Road Biggar
Received 23 Jun 201580 Rederech Crescent Hamilton ML3 8QE
Received 22 Apr 20156 Shields Loan Lanark ML11 7PH
Received 9 Apr 201516 Tuphall Road Hamilton ML3 6TA
Received 30 Mar 20158 Croftbank Avenue Bothwell G71 8RT
Received 30 Mar 20151 Linnbank Kirkfieldbank Lanark ML11 9GB
Received 30 Mar 2015Lower Muirhouse Farm Cleghorn Lanark ML11 8NX
Received 4 Feb 201566 Wellesley Crescent East Kilbride Glasgow G75 8TS
Received 9 Oct 2014Marshill Farm Draffan Road Lanark ML11 9PW
Received 26 Sept 201726 Bowmore Crescent Thorntonhall G74 5DD
Received 15 Sept 2017Oxengate Elsrickle Biggar ML12 6QZ
Received 14 Sept 2017Records 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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