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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
30,218 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,215 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 3 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Tain Terrace Blantyre
Received 21 Sept 200716 Bradshaw Crescent Hamilton
Received 21 Sept 200747 Beechwood Avenue Hamilton
Received 21 May 2007Unit 12, Plot 3C Technology Avenue Hamilton International Technology Park Blantyre
Received 21 May 200729 Dave Barrie Avenue Larkhall
Received 21 May 20079 Glenview Place Blantyre
Received 21 May 20075 Caerlaverock Place Blantyre
Received 18 May 2007Duke Inn 45A Neilsland Road Hamilton
Received 18 May 2007Woodside Bar 35 - 37 Gateside Street Hamilton
Received 18 May 2007Milton Of Lockhart Rosebank Crossford
Received 29 Dec 2006Dalton Site Bramah Avenue Scottish Enterprise Technology Park East Kilbride
Received 19 Dec 20063 McCallum Court East Kilbride G74 4SH
Received 19 Dec 2006Greenlees Hill Farm Cairnmuir Road East Kilbride
Received 19 Dec 2006Ballerup High School Crosshouse Road East Kilbride
Received 18 Dec 20063 Redwood Place Peel Park Campus G74 5PB
Received 18 Dec 20063 Keats Park Bothwell
Received 14 Dec 200611 Cherry Tree Drive Blackwood ML11 9TF
Received 11 Oct 2006Yieldshields Road Roadmeetings ML8 4QG
Received 11 Oct 200678 Chapel Street Carluke ML8 4BD
Received 6 Oct 2006Lower Henshilwood Braehead ML11 8HB
Received 27 Sept 20062 Thomson Court Stonehouse
Received 21 Sept 2007The Manse 61 High Street Biggar, ML12 6DA
Received 29 Aug 2007The Manse 61 High Street Biggar ML12 6DA
Received 29 Aug 2007Southwood Farm Abington ML12 6RW
Received 29 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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