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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
30,231 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
West Coldstream Farm Kilncadzow Carluke ML8 4QX
Received 1 Jul 200812 Harlequin Court Hamilton
Received 18 Feb 20097 Golspie Way Blantyre
Received 18 Feb 200942 Shieldhill Road Quothquan ML12 6FP
Received 18 Feb 2009Land At Sainsbury's Distribution Centre Langlands Business Park Linking Across An Existing Pedestrian Footpath Into Hardstanding Areas To The North And South G75 0YH
Received 17 Feb 2009Land To The North And East Of The Existing Sainsbury's Distribution Centre Langlands Park East Kilbride G75 0YH
Received 17 Feb 2009170 Wellhall Road Hamilton
Received 3 Nov 2008NHS National Distribution Centre Canderside Toll Larkhall
Received 3 Nov 200859 Main Street Bothwell
Received 3 Nov 2008Unit 10 Palace Grounds Retail Park Palace Grounds Road Hamilton
Received 3 Nov 2008103 Farmeloan Road Rutherglen
Received 30 Oct 200812 Morland East Kilbride
Received 29 Oct 200843 Glassford Road Strathaven
Received 28 Oct 20086 Whitelees Road Cleghorn ML11 7SP
Received 28 Oct 200864 Salisbury East Kilbride
Received 28 Oct 2008Unit 4 36 High Street Lanark ML11 7EX
Received 28 Oct 200846 Avondale Avenue East Kilbride G74 1NS
Received 19 Aug 2008Land At Causeyhead Farm Auldhouse Road Auldhouse G75 9DT
Received 19 Aug 2008Leaburn House Strathaven Road Auldhouse
Received 28 Jul 2008Plot 6 Langlands Square Kelvin South Business Park East Kilbride G75 0YY
Received 28 Jul 2008Site Adjacent To 7 Rosebank Avenue Blantyre
Received 27 Jun 20083 Princes Gate Bothwell
Received 27 Jun 20083 Windmill Road Hamilton
Received 14 Jul 200825 Springbank Crescent Hamilton
Received 14 Jul 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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