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
30,231 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 Harlequin Court Hamilton
Received 17 Apr 200810 Machan Avenue Larkhall
Received 17 Apr 20087 Lancaster Road Auchenheath ML11 9XE
Received 16 Apr 200843 Melbourne Avenue Westwood East Kilbride
Received 14 Apr 200852 Cheviot Crescent East Kilbride
Received 20 Mar 2008Site Off Redwood Drive East Kilbride
Received 25 Feb 20084 Bay Willow Court Cambuslang
Received 21 Feb 20082 Larch Square Cambuslang
Received 4 Apr 2008Burn Place/Dukes Road Cambuslang
Received 4 Apr 200840 Ash Wynd Cambuslang
Received 4 Apr 200827 Prospect Avenue Cambuslang
Received 4 Apr 2008107 High Street Biggar ML12 6DL
Received 15 Jul 200814 Albert Drive Rutherglen
Received 22 Oct 2008Former Petrol Station/Garage Townfoot A721 Elsrickle
Received 22 Oct 2008112 Hagholm Road Cleghorn ML11 7SG
Received 22 Oct 200810 Kent Drive Rutherglen
Received 22 Oct 2008Asda Stores Ltd Palace Grounds Road Hamilton
Received 16 Oct 2008Clydeneuk Cottage 300 Blantyre Farm Road Uddingston
Received 16 Oct 200834 Burnblea Street Hamilton
Received 7 Jul 200822 Turnberry Wynd Bothwell
Received 30 Jun 200850 Clove Mill Wynd Larkhall
Received 15 Oct 20082 Millburn Place Larkhall
Received 15 Oct 2008Apollo Hair And Tanning 132A Union Street Larkhall
Received 13 Oct 2008The Old Farm Violet Gardens Carluke ML8 5TJ
Received 7 Oct 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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