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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
30,226 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Lampits Road Carstairs ML11 8RP
Received 20 Aug 200711 Woodsland Avenue Lanark ML11 9FF
Received 20 Aug 2007Cuthbertsons Yard Station Road Biggar ML12 6DQ
Received 20 Aug 2007Plot 2 Hawkland Farm Hawkland
Received 20 Aug 2007Plot At 8A Kirkton Avenue Carluke
Received 20 Aug 200710 Lilac Hill Hamilton
Received 3 Sept 200772 London Street Larkhall
Received 30 Aug 20078 Burnacre Gardens Uddingston
Received 30 Aug 200720 Hyndford Road Lanark ML11 9AE
Received 29 Aug 2007Balgray Road (Phase 3) Lesmahagow
Received 22 Aug 2007Muirhouse Farm Auchenheath ML11 9XH
Received 22 Aug 2007106 Strathaven Road Lesmahagow ML11 0DW
Received 22 Aug 20077 Avonview Strathaven
Received 28 Sept 2007Newlands Cottage East Kilbride G75 8RS
Received 24 Aug 200728 Glen Avenue Larkhall
Received 24 Aug 200741 Main Street Bothwell
Received 24 Aug 20074 Rowan Walk Strathaven
Received 31 Jul 200776 New Plymouth East Kilbride
Received 31 Jul 2007Macdonald Crutherland House Strathaven Road East Kilbride G75 0QZ
Received 31 Jul 200759 Cityford Crescent Rutherglen
Received 12 Oct 200733 Magnolia Drive Cambuslang
Received 12 Oct 200754 Dalziel Crescent Cambuslang
Received 12 Oct 2007Hardington Mains Farm Lamington ML12 6HS
Received 10 Oct 2007"Deneholm" Quothquan ML12 6NB
Received 10 Oct 2007Records 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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