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30,231 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Plots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11 & Common Road Land Adjacent To 12 Carlisle Road Larkhall
Received 4 Sept 200837 Greenhall Place Blantyre
Received 4 Sept 2008Parkburn Court Park Burn Industrial Estate Hamilton
Received 4 Sept 2008Townfoot Farm Blantyre Farm Road Uddingston
Received 4 Sept 2008484 Carlisle Road Lesmahagow
Received 30 Jul 20084 Waterlands Place Law
Received 30 Jul 2008Unit 2 30 Portland Place Hamilton
Received 3 Apr 2008The Beeches Off Hyndford Road Lanark ML11 9FY
Received 21 Jul 2008Springfield Farm Yieldshields Road Carluke ML8 4QZ
Received 21 Jul 200852 School Road Coalburn ML11 0LP
Received 21 Jul 200817-21 Hope Street Lanark ML11 7NE
Received 21 Jul 2008242 Hamilton Road Cambuslang
Received 25 Jun 20081 Dalziel Way Cambuslang
Received 25 Jun 200819 George Street Hamilton
Received 4 Mar 20096 Goodview Gardens Larkhall
Received 26 Feb 200985 Falkland Drive East Kilbride
Received 25 Feb 200932 Westfarm Crescent Cambuslang
Received 15 Jan 2009Walled Car Storage Area To The Rear Of 28 Westport Lanark
Received 30 Oct 2008344 Kingsbridge Drive Rutherglen
Received 15 Oct 2008Kingsgate West Stewartfield Way East Kilbride
Received 6 Oct 20084 Broadlees Gardens Chapelton Strathaven ML10 6SN
Received 6 Oct 20089 Hawthorn Way Cambuslang
Received 15 Sept 200836 Kingsburn Grove Rutherglen
Received 15 Sept 2008101 Dukes Road Rutherglen
Received 1 Aug 2008Records 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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