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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
30,246 approved · 1,252 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tweedieside Paddock Sandford Strathaven ML10 6PJ
Received 12 Apr 2016Clydebank Farm Nemphlar Moor Road Nemphlar
Received 6 Apr 201624 Bidders Gait Lanark ML11 9FG
Received 21 Mar 2016Plots 1 And 2 Ladygill Roberton
Received 1 Feb 2016100 King Street Rutherglen G73 1JS
Received 1 Feb 20167 Kirkland Park Avenue Strathaven ML10 6DY
Received 28 Jan 201659 Carron Place Kelvin Industrial Estate East Kilbride G75 0YL
Received 8 Jan 201627 Dunedin Drive East Kilbride G75 8QQ
Received 7 Jan 2016Mauldslie Estate, Mauldslie Road, Carluke ML8 5QE
Received 31 Dec 201574 Waterside Street Strathaven ML10 6AW
Received 23 Dec 201543 Low Waters Road Hamilton ML3 7LG
Received 17 Dec 20151 Ambleside Rise Hamilton ML3 7HJ
Received 19 Oct 2015166 Lightburn Road Cambuslang G72 8XN
Received 10 Mar 201727 Laverock Avenue Hamilton ML3 7DD
Received 2 Mar 2017Stewartfield Farm Dunrobin Drive East Kilbride G74 4NP
Received 27 Feb 201757 Chriss Avenue Hamilton ML3 7RN
Received 27 Feb 201745 Laburnum Lea Hamilton ML3 7LY
Received 27 Feb 2017Land At The Former Waterworks Site On Strathaven Road Hamilton
Received 24 Feb 201715 Dalrymple Drive East Kilbride G74 4LF
Received 20 Feb 20176 Clyde Avenue Bothwell G71 8DU
Received 10 Feb 20176-8 Dovecot Lane Lanark
Received 10 Feb 201764-80 Wellgate Lanark
Received 10 Feb 201719A & 19B Wellgatehead Lanark
Received 10 Feb 20179 Elsinore Path East Kilbride G75 0DT
Received 3 Feb 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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