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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
30,267 approved · 1,252 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 21 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 2 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Warnocks Thornton Cottage Thornton Road Thorntonhall Glasgow G74 5AL
Received 1 Apr 2015West Coldstream Coldstream Highway Strathaven ML10 6SU
Received 28 Jan 2015High Kype Livery Stables The Lodge High Kype Road Sandford ML10 6UQ
Received 21 Oct 201418 Stirling Drive Rutherglen G73 4JH
Received 23 Mar 2016First Floor 4 Blairbeth Terrace Rutherglen G73 4JB
Received 13 Aug 20159 Glen Grove East Kilbride G75 0BG
Received 7 Jul 2015Land At Auldtonheights North East Of Starr Inn Carlisle Road Lesmahagow ML11 0JQ
Received 30 Jun 2015Roadhead Farm Shieldhill Road Quothquan Biggar ML12 6ND
Received 17 Jun 2015Land Off Ballochmill Road Rutherglen
Received 27 Apr 2015Carcaston House Newlands Road East Kilbride Glasgow G75 8RS
Received 27 Apr 201514 Staikhill Lanark ML11 7PW
Received 27 Apr 2015Bankwood Farm Biggar Road Carnwath Lanark ML11 8HJ
Received 16 Feb 2015Land Formally Part Of Corbirhall Farm Adjacent To A70 Between No. 61 Ayr Road And Corbielea Cottage
Received 16 Feb 2015The Knoll 2 Coulter Road Biggar ML12 6EP
Received 15 Dec 2014Stonelaw Road Rutherglen G73 3TW
Received 15 Dec 2014Land Between Tweedsmuir House And South Lindsaylands Lindsaylands Road Biggar ML12 6NR
Received 4 Dec 2014Area Of Open Ground Between Burnside Road, Rutherglen At The Junction With Cathkin By-Pass And Fernhill Road, At The Junction With Croft Road And Blairbeth Road
Received 5 Nov 2014107 McNeil Street Larkhall ML9 1BJ
Received 30 Oct 2014Meikle Earnock Road Hamilton
Received 28 Jun 201715 Anford Place Blantyre G72 0NR
Received 28 Jun 20175A Earls Gate Bothwell G71 8BP
Received 19 Jun 2017La Piazza Pizzeria 33 Lanark Road Braidwood Carluke ML8 4PW
Received 5 Jul 201723A Glasgow Road Chapelton Strathaven ML10 6RS
Received 8 Feb 2017Highstonehall Road Hamilton Former Site Of St Peter PS And Vacant Land To Rear Of Site
Received 22 Mar 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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