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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30,219 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
2 Oldham Close Blackwood ML11 9YS
Received 11 Apr 2007Outbuilding At Woodend Farm Carnwath ML11 8LR
Received 11 Apr 200712 Gowanside Place Carluke ML8 5UN
Received 20 Feb 200712 Waterloo Road Lanark ML11 7PZ
Received 20 Feb 2007Crossbank Farm Blair Farm Crossford ML8 5QN
Received 20 Feb 2007Auchenheath House Auchenheath ML11 9UX
Received 20 Feb 2007The Pines Libberton ML11 8LY
Received 27 Apr 200738 Coldstream Drive Rutherglen
Received 24 Apr 2007256 Cambuslang Road Cambuslang
Received 24 Apr 2007Wardlawhill Parish Church Hamilton Road Rutherglen
Received 23 Apr 200737 Hospitland Drive Lanark ML11 7EJ
Received 9 May 200718 Aquila Way Carluke ML8 5TT
Received 9 May 20077 Quarry Street Hamilton
Received 27 Mar 20078 Gemmell Way Stonehouse
Received 22 Mar 2007The Woodlands Burnhead Road Symington
Received 15 May 200719 Avondale Place Avondale East Kilbride
Received 12 Mar 2007Heights Of Coldstream Coldstream Road Strathaven
Received 12 Mar 2007East High Cross Yieldshields ML8 4QY
Received 10 Apr 2007281 Main Street Blantyre
Received 7 Nov 2006Plot Adjacent To 22 Carlisle Road Crawford
Received 3 Oct 2006Greenwall Farm Climpy ML11 8EN
Received 3 Oct 2006Old Station House 51 Biggar Road Symington ML12 6FT
Received 3 Oct 200664 Somerville Drive The Murray East Kilbride
Received 24 Nov 200678 Montgomery Street Larkhall
Received 21 Nov 2006Records 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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