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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30,235 approved · 1,253 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
90-92 High Street Lanark ML11 7ES
Received 8 Dec 20156 Pentland Gardens Larkhall ML9 1DY
Received 15 Jan 2018North Crookedstone Cottage Limekilnburn Road Limekilnburn Hamilton ML3 7XG
Received 22 Dec 20175 Grenadier Park Cambuslang Glasgow G72 8EP
Received 25 Aug 2016West Coldstream Farm Yieldshields Carluke ML8 4QX
Received 16 Jul 2014Stanmore Farm St Leonard Street Lanark ML11 7DU
Received 16 Jul 2014Cricklewood Hotel 27 Hamilton Road Bothwell G71 8LZ
Received 2 Oct 2015107 Stewart Street Carluke ML8 5BY
Received 2 Oct 2015Land Adjacent To David Livingston Centre 165 Station Road Blantyre
Received 2 Oct 2015Land Adjacent To Kirk Road Dalserf
Received 30 Sept 2015Flemington Farm Loanend Road Cambuslang G72 8YE
Received 25 Sept 20152 Kent Place East Kilbride G75 8NE
Received 22 Jun 201519 West Mains Road East Kilbride G74 1NQ
Received 22 Jun 20156A Allanshaw Gardens Hamilton ML3 8NU
Received 18 Jun 20157 Fife Crescent Bothwell G71 8DG
Received 18 Jun 20155 Greenlees Road Cambuslang G72 8JA
Received 26 Jan 2018Land Adjacent To Burnbrae Farm Cottage High Kype Road Strathaven South Lanarkshire
Received 25 Jan 201820 Rickard Avenue Strathaven ML10 6GW
Received 25 Jan 201825 Brendon Avenue East Kilbride G75 9GT
Received 19 Jan 2018Former Dalquhandy Surface Mine Coalburn ML11 0NN
Received 28 Apr 201793 Quarry Street Hamilton ML3 7AG
Received 10 Apr 2017Gateside Road Crawfordjohn Biggar
Received 29 Nov 201625 Crawfurd Road Rutherglen G73 4JZ
Received 24 Oct 2016113 Mote Hill Hamilton ML3 6EA
Received 18 Aug 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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