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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
30,252 approved · 1,252 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
14 Crawford Crescent Uddingston G71 7DP
Received 24 Sept 2015Former Nerston Residential School Nerston East Kilbride G74 4PD
Received 20 Apr 2015Netherhall Farm Sandilands Lanark ML11 9TX
Received 12 Mar 2015Units 4A And 4B Kingsgate Shopping Park East Kilbride G74 4UN
Received 6 Mar 201538 Cadzow Street Hamilton ML3 6EH
Received 5 Mar 201531 Vryburg Crescent Lindsayfield East Kilbride G75 9LH
Received 12 Feb 2015Unit D Howard Avenue Nerston Ind Est East Kilbride G74 4ZA
Received 10 Feb 2015Forth Waste Water Treatment Works Near Forth
Received 15 Jan 201587 - 89 Woodland Crescent Cambuslang G72 8QW
Received 30 Oct 201410 Sydney Drive East Kilbride Glasgow G75 8DH
Received 23 Oct 2014Site At Holm Road Crossford
Received 23 Oct 2014168 Dalcraig Crescent Blantyre G72 9NR
Received 22 Oct 2014Millburn Residential Home 5 Glencairn Gardens Cambuslang Glasgow G72 7QE
Received 17 Oct 20141 - 3 Applegate Drive East Kilbride Glasgow G75 9BF
Received 13 Oct 201427 Buchanan Drive Rutherglen G73 3PF
Received 25 Aug 20149 Lilac Wynd Cambuslang G72 7GH
Received 25 Aug 2014West Coldstream Farm Roman Road Yieldshields Carluke ML8 4QX
Received 21 Aug 201412 Durban Avenue Lindsayfield East Kilbride G75 9PA
Received 21 Aug 201455 And 57 North Vennel, Lanark
Received 27 Feb 201759 Braxfield Road Lanark ML11 9BS
Received 10 Feb 201716 Douglas Street Hamilton ML3 0BP
Received 7 Feb 201710 Macfie Place East Kilbride G74 4TY
Received 2 Feb 20173 Carnegie Gardens Blackwood Lanark ML11 9YB
Received 21 Dec 20165 Macfie Place East Kilbride G74 4TY
Received 20 Dec 2016Records 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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