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
30,218 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,215 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Rear Of 51 Biggar Road Symington
Received 29 Aug 2007131 Main Street Carnwath ML11 8HP
Received 29 Aug 200721 St Ninians Lanark ML11 7HX
Received 28 Aug 2007Turfholm Lesmahagow ML11 0ED
Received 29 Aug 200762 Allan Avenue Carluke ML8 5UA
Received 29 Aug 20075 Library Gardens Cambuslang
Received 15 May 20071 Livingstone Gardens Larkhall
Received 14 May 200710 Uddingston Road Bothwell
Received 14 May 20071/3 Broompark Road Blantyre
Received 3 May 200725 Lawrie Street Stonehouse
Received 3 May 200744 Main Street Cambuslang
Received 30 Apr 200744 Main Street Cambuslang
Received 30 Apr 200744 Greystone Avenue Rutherglen
Received 30 Apr 20073 Grange Court Lanark ML11 7PF
Received 11 Apr 2007Land Opposite 42 Ravenswood Forth
Received 3 Nov 20064 Lanark Road Crossford ML8 5QG
Received 3 Nov 2006Playing Fields At Ayr Road Douglas ML11 0QA
Received 3 Nov 200612 Loch Laxford East Kilbride G74 2DL
Received 18 Jun 200710 Rosaburn Avenue East Kilbride
Received 18 Jun 200746 Millar Street Glassford ML10 6TD
Received 18 Jun 2007Part Of Southwood Farm Abington ML12 6RW
Received 30 Mar 20071 Burnside Court Rutherglen
Received 29 Mar 200711 Drummond Place East Kilbride
Received 24 May 2007Braeview House 9-11 Braeview Place East Kilbride
Received 24 May 2007Records 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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