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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
30,222 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
16 Overton Park Strathaven
Received 15 Oct 2007Land North Of Biggar Road Symington ML12
Received 15 Oct 20072 Edinburgh Road Cleghorn ML11 7RR
Received 15 Oct 2007Over Abington Farm Abington ML12 6S
Received 15 Oct 200718 Dovecot Lane Lanark ML11 7PK
Received 15 Oct 20071 Redwood Avenue Peel Park Campus East Kilbride G74 5PE
Received 8 Aug 2007William Hill Lbo 172 Maxwellton Avenue East Kilbride
Received 8 Aug 2007Newlandsmuir Farm Newlands Road East Kilbride
Received 27 Jul 2007Lanark ML11 8SR
Received 18 Oct 200719 Ladybank Court West Mains East Kilbride
Received 18 Oct 2007Areas H22 & H24 SDA2 Lindsayfield East Kilbride G75
Received 18 Oct 200712 Manse Avenue Bothwell
Received 5 Jun 200713 Silvertonhill Avenue Hamilton
Received 16 Aug 20071 Ashland Avenue Hamilton
Received 16 Aug 20075 Brightside Avenue Uddingston
Received 16 Aug 2007Lidl UK Whistleberry Road Blantyre
Received 16 Aug 20073 Scott Grove Hamilton
Received 16 Aug 200774 Redwood Crescent Hamilton
Received 16 Aug 200719 Dornoch Drive Blantyre
Received 16 Aug 2007Blackshouse Farm Steading Thankerton ML12 6PL
Received 16 Jul 2007148 Lanark Road Crossford ML8 5QQ
Received 16 Jul 2007116 Brankholm Brae Hamilton
Received 13 Dec 200720 Draffan Road Netherburn Larkhall
Received 13 Dec 2007Beech Cottage Lamington ML12 6HW
Received 27 Aug 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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