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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30,282 approved · 1,252 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 22 Feb 201721-24 Stuart Terrace 25-28 Stuart Terrace 29-32 Stuart Terrace 33-36 Stuart Terrace 58-64 Douglasdale Street Rigside ML11 0LT
Received 21 Dec 20161-7 Welsh Street 9-15 Welsh Street 21-24 Macauslan Terrace Douglas Water Lanark ML11 9LJ
Received 21 Dec 201613-19 Hillview Crescent 29-35 Hillview Crescent 18-24 Hillview Crescent Glespin Lanark ML11 0SE
Received 21 Dec 201619 - 25 Pettinain Road Carstairs Junction Lanark ML11 8RF
Received 21 Dec 201622-24 Allison Street Carstairs Junction Lanark ML11 8RG
Received 21 Dec 20165 Tamar Drive East Kilbride G75 8TY
Received 5 Sept 2016Strathaven Road Hamilton ML3 7UX
Received 25 Aug 2016The Olympia Shopping Centre East Kilbride G74 1LX
Received 16 Aug 20162 Inch Keith East Kilbride G74 2JZ
Received 11 Aug 201616 Craigmuir Road Kirk Gate High Blantyre G72 9UA
Received 10 Aug 2016107 Almada Street Hamilton
Received 29 Apr 2016Carlisle Road Ferniegair
Received 9 Aug 2016McDonalds Queensway East Kilbride
Received 29 Oct 2015Hamilton Sheriff Court Beckford Street Hamilton ML3 0BT
Received 28 Jul 20159 Mosslingal East Kilbride G75 0HH
Received 22 Jul 20153 Wellknowe Avenue Thorntonhall G74 5AR
Received 13 Jul 201524 Balfour Terrace The Murray East Kilbride G75 0JQ
Received 6 May 201510 Penman Avenue Rutherglen G73 1HW
Received 6 May 2015Site Of Former Rolls Royce Factory Mavor Avenue Nerston Ind Est East Kilbride Glasgow G74 0QX
Received 25 Jan 2018Eigerlee Yieldshields Road Carluke ML8 4QE
Received 8 Jan 201820 Dungavel Gardens Hamilton ML3 7PE
Received 20 Dec 2017Speyside Distillery Duchess Road Rutherglen G73 1AU
Received 7 Dec 201716 St Leonard Street Lanark ML11 7AB
Received 6 Dec 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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