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
30,229 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 8 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Stonehouse Road Sandford Strathaven
Received 21 Nov 200745 Anstruther Street Law ML8 5JG
Received 12 Mar 2008Land To Rear Of 3 Redwood Place Peelpark Campus East Kilbride G74 5PB
Received 24 Jan 20082 Thorn Drive Rutherglen
Received 15 Jan 200817 Orefield Place East Kilbride
Received 19 May 20083 Maple Crescent Cambuslang
Received 13 May 200829 Cherrytree Crescent Larkhall
Received 13 May 20086 Springbank Crescent Hamilton
Received 9 May 200810 Sidlaw Avenue Hamilton
Received 9 May 200812 Brownside Avenue Cambuslang
Received 21 Dec 2007Gso Business Park East Kilbride
Received 16 May 2008High Kype Road Near Sandford
Received 16 May 2008New Plot At 9A Waterlands Road (At Access To Bells Grove) Law ML8 5EX
Received 15 May 200824 South Park Road Hamilton
Received 28 Mar 20085 Hawthorn Walk Cambuslang
Received 27 Mar 20084 Teesdale Stewartfield East Kilbride G74 4HN
Received 10 Mar 200817 Dalrymple Drive East Kilbride
Received 10 Mar 2008Douglas Park Bothwell Road Hamilton
Received 9 May 200882 Covington Road Covington ML12 6NE
Received 14 Apr 200882 Covington Road Covington ML12 6NE
Received 14 Apr 200848 McNeil Street Larkhall
Received 2 Apr 2008Plot 56 21 Annan Avenue Blantyre
Received 2 Apr 200817 Laighmuir Street Uddingston
Received 2 Apr 2008Ayr Road Douglas ML11 0QA
Received 13 Mar 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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