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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30,226 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Old Mill Cottage 350 Auldhouse Road Auldhouse
Received 10 Oct 2007Craig Falls Strathaven Road Sandford Strathaven
Received 10 Oct 2007The Coach House Grenville Drive Cambuslang
Received 2 Oct 200761 Stewarton Drive Cambuslang
Received 20 Sept 2007Land At Burnside Road Cathkin Mid Farm Rutherglen
Received 20 Sept 2007Beckford Estate Caird Street Hamilton
Received 5 Sept 20076-8 Chapel Street Rutherglen
Received 20 Dec 2007Former Monogram Site Farmeloan Road/Cambuslang Road Rutherglen
Received 20 Dec 200772 Muir Street Hamilton
Received 20 Dec 2007Wilsontown Opencast Coal Site Adjacent To B7016 Wilsontown By Forth, Lanarkshire
Received 19 Dec 2007Land At Corner Of Langlea Road & Langlea Avenue Cambuslang
Received 18 Dec 2007Braehead Mains Farm Main Street Braehead ML11 8HA
Received 20 Jul 2007Plot 2 Carlisle Road Crawford
Received 20 Jul 2007Somerfield Rankin Gait Centre Carluke, ML8 4AT
Received 20 Jul 200718 Dovecot Lane Lanark ML11 7PX
Received 20 Jul 2007Opposite No 66 Biggar Road Symington
Received 1 Oct 2007Plot 26 Broompark Drive Lesmahagow
Received 28 Sept 200710-12 Station Road Law
Received 28 Sept 200710-12 Station Road Law ML8 5JA
Received 28 Sept 20077 Glen Falloch East Kilbride
Received 26 Sept 20073 Dunlop Street Strathaven ML10
Received 26 Sept 2007Westwood Redwood Crescent Peel Park East Kilbride G74
Received 26 Sept 200756 Hillside Crescent Hamilton
Received 6 Dec 200749 Muir Street Larkhall
Received 5 Dec 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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