Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
30,214 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,215 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
East Kilbride South Sub Station Hurlawcrook Road
Received 14 Jun 200767 Glen Ogilvie East Kilbride G74 3SY
Received 14 Jun 2007Burnhouse Farm Auldhouse East Kilbride G75 9DP
Received 14 Jun 200746 Kirk Street Stonehouse
Received 27 Apr 200750 Overton Avenue Strathaven
Received 30 May 200797 Colonsay East Kilbride
Received 30 May 2007High Plewlands Farm Muirkirk Road Strathaven
Received 30 May 2007Townhead Garage Main Street Carnwath
Received 16 May 2007Terra Cotta Nursery Cleghorn ML8 4QS
Received 16 May 2007Wolfcrooks Farm Douglas ML11 9PA
Received 16 May 2007The Surgery 53 Burnbank Road Hamilton
Received 27 Oct 2006Blantyre Miners Welfare Club Calder Street Blantyre
Received 27 Oct 2006The Surgery 53 Burnbank Road Hamilton
Received 27 Oct 20067 Farm Court Bothwell
Received 24 Oct 2006176 Brownside Road Rutherglen
Received 20 Oct 2006Plot 2 Muirhall Farm Auchengray
Received 16 Oct 200629 Bellefield Crescent Lanark ML11 7QY
Received 16 Oct 2006100 Quarry Street Hamilton
Received 12 Oct 2006Bridgeholm Farm Stonehouse Road Strathaven
Received 12 Oct 200616 Abbotsford Lane Hamilton
Received 6 Oct 200661 Laburnum Lea Hamilton
Received 6 Oct 200620 Knowehead Gardens Uddingston
Received 4 Oct 200641 Melfort Road Hamilton
Received 2 Oct 20062 Hollandbush Grove Hamilton
Received 2 Oct 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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