Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
30,240 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Craigielea 24 Carlisle Road Crawford ML12 6TW
Received 27 Aug 200839 Royal Gardens Bothwell
Received 14 Aug 200814 Todstable Gardens Stonehouse
Received 14 Aug 20085 Tinto View Road Ashgill
Received 14 Aug 2008100 John Street Larkhall
Received 14 Aug 200886 Hunthill Road Blantyre
Received 14 Aug 2008Unit UR6 East Kilbride Shopping Centre East Kilbride G74 1LL
Received 19 Jun 2008Bellshill Road Bothwell
Received 28 Oct 20082 Dunlop Crescent Bothwell
Received 27 Oct 2008Clydeneuk Cottage 300 Blantyre Farm Road Uddingston
Received 28 Oct 200849 Burnbank Road Hamilton
Received 10 Oct 200841 Holm Road Crossford ML8 5RG
Received 21 Aug 2008Land At Cornhill House Hotel Coulter ML12 6QE
Received 21 Aug 2008142 High Street Biggar ML12 6DH
Received 21 Aug 2008Elmswood Thankerton Camp Farm Thankerton ML12 6PD
Received 27 Jan 200926 Old Mill Road Bothwell
Received 5 Jan 20096 Glenavon Court Larkhall
Received 5 Jan 200931 The Beeches Blackwood
Received 20 Nov 2008Netherfield House Strathaven ML10 6TB
Received 7 Nov 20084 Meadowbank Avenue Strathaven
Received 7 Nov 2008Gap Site - Wallace Memorial 1 Castlegate Lanark, ML11 9DZ
Received 9 Oct 20085 Annieston Place Symington
Received 9 Oct 200849 Bankhead Terrace Lanark
Received 9 Oct 2008Cornhill House Hotel Coulter ML12 6QE
Received 15 Aug 2008Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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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