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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
30,235 approved · 1,253 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 4 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
25A High Street Biggar ML12 6DA
Received 18 Dec 201725A High Street Biggar ML12 6DA
Received 18 Dec 201718 Lanark Road Carluke ML8 4HE
Received 22 Dec 20178 High Street Biggar ML12 6BN
Received 22 Dec 20175 Lady Jane Gate Bothwell G71 8BW
Received 21 Dec 2017Land 110M Northwest Of Littlepark Cottage Jackton Road East Kilbride Glasgow South Lanarkshire
Received 20 Dec 20171 Elmwood Manor Blantyre Mill Road Bothwell G71 8EA
Received 4 Dec 20171 Cleghorn Drive Lanark ML11 7QZ
Received 21 Nov 20179 Edgemont Park Hamilton ML3 8ER
Received 26 Oct 2017121 Elder Crescent Cambuslang G72 7GL
Received 10 Oct 201719 Berriedale Crescent Blantyre G72 0GA
Received 28 Aug 20174 Rosefield Gardens Uddingston G71 7AW
Received 28 Aug 201725 Cheviot Crescent East Kilbride G75 9GG
Received 17 Aug 201734 Candytoft Wynd Ferniegair Hamilton ML3 7ZF
Received 30 Jun 201773 St Brides Way Bothwell G71 8QG
Received 19 Jun 2017Harryburn Brae Met Mast Crawford
Received 8 Oct 20155 Park Drive Thorntonhall Glasgow G74 5AS
Received 11 Sept 201575 Main Street Bothwell G71 8ER
Received 1 Jun 201530 Hutchinson Place Cambuslang G72 8XX
Received 26 May 20158 Sherwood Avenue Uddingston G71 7NX
Received 10 Mar 2015The Windsor 3 Castle Street Hamilton ML3 6BU
Received 5 Jan 201530 Cadzow Street Hamilton ML3 6DG
Received 22 Jul 2014Georgia Park Care Home 73A Greenlees Road Cambuslang
Received 15 Jun 20174 Burnhill Street Rutherglen G73 1ES
Received 6 Jun 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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