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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30,226 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
27/29 High Street Biggar ML12 6DA
Received 29 Nov 2007Land Adjacent To 61 Peel Road Thorntonhall G74 5AG
Received 5 Dec 200712 Countess Gate Bothwell
Received 5 Dec 20072 Toll Wynd Hamilton
Received 5 Dec 200724 Simpson Drive East Kilbride G75 0AX
Received 29 Nov 200732 Glenburn Road College Milton East Kilbride
Received 27 Nov 2007Kelvin Park South East Kilbride
Received 26 Nov 2007Plot 43 Bogton Farm East Kilbride
Received 26 Nov 2007Fairfield Place East Kilbride G74 5LP
Received 26 Nov 200736 Stewartfield Drive East Kilbride
Received 26 Nov 20072 Meadow Close Lindsayfield East Kilbride G75 9LT
Received 26 Nov 2007Bogton Farm Thornton Road Thornton East Kilbride
Received 26 Jul 200722 Wellside Drive Cambuslang
Received 26 Oct 2007Loch Primary School Lochaber Drive Rutherglen
Received 26 Oct 200789 Acacia Way Cambuslang
Received 26 Oct 200768 Main Street Douglas ML11 0QG
Received 25 Oct 200753 Glencoe Road Carluke ML8 4JQ
Received 25 Oct 2007"Hillview" 125 Lanark Road Braidwood ML8 5PL
Received 7 Sept 200730 Biggar Road Symington ML12 6FT
Received 7 Sept 200739 Loanfoot Gardens Braidwood ML8 5SS
Received 7 Sept 20075A Markethill Road East Kilbride
Received 22 Aug 2007Raws Farm High Kype Road Sandford Strathaven
Received 22 Aug 2007The Woodpecker 20 Wide Close Lanark
Received 28 Nov 20072 Clydeview Cottages Cornsilloch Dalserf Clyde Valley
Received 5 Sept 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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