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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30,246 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 5 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land At Lady Jane Gate Bothwell G71 8BW
Received 22 Nov 20167 Lady Mary Walk Hamilton ML3 7NY
Received 22 Nov 201619 Stewart Street Hamilton ML3 0RH
Received 16 Nov 201684 New Street Stonehouse ML9 3LT
Received 16 Nov 20162 Sunnyside Road Quarter Hamilton ML3 7XH
Received 15 Nov 201627 Westfarm Drive Cambuslang G72 7RG
Received 24 Oct 2016Area Adjacent To Sornfallow Farm Wiston Biggar ML12 6HU
Received 24 Oct 2016Clydeview Cottage Rosebank Carluke ML8 5QA
Received 8 Sept 201631 Albany Drive Lanark ML11 9AG
Received 5 Aug 201677 Stewarton Drive Cambuslang G72 8DQ
Received 21 Jul 201641 Coldstream Drive Rutherglen G73 3LH
Received 23 Jun 2016Plot At Carlisle Road Hamilton
Received 8 Jun 2016134 Fleming Way Hamilton ML3 9QH
Received 9 May 2016Somervell Street Cambuslang G72 7EB
Received 29 Apr 2016Land 1km East Of Park Farm A721 From Carnwath To A702 Melbourne Carnwath Lanark South Lanarkshire
Received 13 Oct 20178 Lansdowne Gardens Hamilton ML3 7DH
Received 4 Oct 2017East Milton Primary School Vancouver Drive East Kilbride G75 8LF
Received 29 Sept 2017338 Glasgow Road Blantyre G72 9LQ
Received 17 Feb 201739 Redlawood Road Cambuslang G72 7UZ
Received 16 Feb 201739 Belmont Drive East Kilbride G75 8HB
Received 16 Feb 201723 Keats Park Bothwell G71 8TG
Received 22 Sept 201731 Sydes Brae Blantyre G72 0TL
Received 10 Feb 201794 Blairbeth Road Rutherglen G73 5BT
Received 6 Feb 201770 Glen Prosen East Kilbride G74 3TA
Received 6 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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