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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
30,215 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,215 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 2 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 13 Mar 200714 Carnegie Gardens Blackwood ML11 9YB
Received 13 Mar 200799 Strawfrank Road Carstairs Junction ML11 8RE
Received 21 Jun 2007202 New Trows Road Lesmahagow ML11 0ER
Received 21 Jun 200759 Dalrymple Drive The Village East Kilbride
Received 23 Oct 200631 Troon Avenue Greenhills East Kilbride
Received 23 Oct 20062 Reid Street Hamilton
Received 16 Oct 200612 Croftwood Road Hamilton
Received 16 Oct 20065 Livingstone Boulevard Hamilton International Technology Park Blantyre
Received 16 Oct 2006Land Adjacent To Hamilton Bus Station Off Brandon Street Hamilton
Received 16 Oct 200699 Pentland Crescent Larkhall
Received 16 Oct 200623 Fairyknowe Gardens Bothwell
Received 16 Oct 2006101 Main Street Symington ML12 6LL
Received 13 Oct 200683 Lanark Road Carstairs Village ML11 8QQ
Received 13 Oct 2006The Welkin Crossford ML8 5QH
Received 13 Oct 200613 Castlehill Crescent Ferniegair Hamilton
Received 20 Feb 20077 Ashcroft East Kilbride
Received 20 Feb 2007Ground At Broadlees Garage 21 Glasgow Road Avon Holme Cottage Chapelton
Received 19 Feb 2007195 Maple Terrace East Kilbride
Received 19 Feb 200710 Sandhead Road Strathaven
Received 19 Feb 200721 Houston Street Hamilton
Received 12 Sept 200623 Montrose Crescent Hamilton
Received 12 Sept 2006Plot 25 Broompark Drive Lesmahagow
Received 28 Nov 200639 Station Road Biggar ML12 6BW
Received 28 Nov 2006Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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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