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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
30,219 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
6 /8 Burnbank Road Hamilton
Received 17 Aug 2007The Bothy Shodshill Mill Cleghorn, ML11 8NT
Received 25 Jul 20079 Mavor Avenue East Kilbride
Received 18 Jul 20075 Mavor Avenue East Kilbride Glasgow G74 4QY
Received 18 Jul 20079B Langside Road Bothwell
Received 22 Oct 2007East Windyedge Lethame Road Strathaven
Received 22 Oct 200762 King Street Stonehouse
Received 22 Oct 2007Macdonald Crutherland House Strathaven Road East Kilbride
Received 19 Oct 2007Macdonald Crutherland House Strathaven Road East Kilbride
Received 19 Oct 200712 Palmer Crescent Strathaven
Received 19 Oct 20073 Belleisle Avenue Uddingston
Received 24 Apr 200761 Hardie Street Blantyre
Received 24 Apr 20075 Ormiston Drive Hamilton
Received 24 Apr 20075 Langlea Way Cambuslang
Received 10 May 2007Unit 1 Queensway Retail Park Linwood Avenue East Kilbride
Received 10 May 20074 Millburn Way East Kilbride
Received 10 May 20071 Eden Grove East Kilbride
Received 10 May 2007Gardenhall Inn Gardenhall East Kilbride
Received 10 May 200742 Townhead Street Strathaven
Received 10 May 200732 Lancaster Road Auchenheath ML11 9XE
Received 9 May 200724 Burns Street Hamilton
Received 22 Mar 2007160 Sycamore Crescent East Kilbride
Received 5 Mar 2007Co-Op Food Store Main Street Carnwath, ML11 8HH
Received 18 Apr 2007Waterside Farm Waterside ML11 0HL
Received 18 Apr 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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