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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
30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
63 Falkland Drive East Kilbride G74 1JF
Received 27 Jan 2010Nellfield House Braidwood ML8 4PP
Received 27 Jan 2010Plot 3 Carlisle Road Crawford
Received 27 Jan 201022 Semphill Gardens East Kilbride G74 3UH
Received 18 Jan 201056 Calderglen Avenue Blantyre G72 9UN
Received 15 Jan 2010113 Wellhall Road Hamilton ML3 9XN
Received 10 May 2010241 Stonelaw Road Rutherglen Glasgow
Received 20 Apr 2010Cambuslang Town Centre Cambuslang G72 7HB
Received 20 Apr 201010 & 14 Delves Road Lanark ML11 9DU
Received 2 Feb 201014 Crossan Lane Carluke ML8
Received 2 Feb 2010Garden Ground At 29 Wilsontown Wilsontown
Received 2 Feb 201049 Buchanan Drive Rutherglen
Received 27 Jan 2010Sergeants Mess Winston Barracks Lanark
Received 10 Nov 2009Sergeants Mess Winston Army Barracks Lanark
Received 10 Nov 2009Site Adjacent Muirfoot Terrace Cleghorn ML11 8PB
Received 6 Nov 2009Ar Dachaidh Woodhall Road Braidwood ML8 5NF
Received 28 Oct 2009Woodend (On B7016) Libberton ML11 8LX
Received 28 Oct 2009104 Greens Road Newbigging ML11 8TG
Received 28 Oct 2009Heatherlea 1 Carlisle Road Thankerton ML12 6PD
Received 28 Oct 20093 Ontario Park East Kilbride G75 8LX
Received 15 Oct 2009270 Glasgow Road Blantyre
Received 29 Sept 200916 Sutherland Crescent Hamilton
Received 29 Sept 2009Low Whiteside Farm Lesmahagow ML11 0HL
Received 22 Dec 2009Dawnfresh Seafoods Limited Goldie Road Bothwell Park Industrial Estate Uddingston
Received 18 Dec 2009Records 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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