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30,218 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,215 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
55 Carlisle Road Blackwood ML11 9RZ
Received 5 Sept 200616 Leyland Avenue Hamilton
Received 5 Sept 2006North Cottage Westertown Farm Yieldshields Road Cleghorn, ML11 8PA
Received 5 Sept 2006139 Carlisle Road Stonehouse
Received 5 Sept 2006Hilltop , Upperwell Carwood Estate Biggar, ML12 6LX
Received 5 Sept 20061 St Stephens Crescent Rutherglen
Received 5 Sept 200622 Cityford Drive Rutherglen
Received 14 Aug 2006Blackhouse Farm Thankerton
Received 8 Aug 2006Avenue Street Rutherglen
Received 8 Aug 200638 Viewpark Drive Burnside
Received 8 Aug 2006Yieldshields Road Roadmeetings Carluke ML8 4QG
Received 2 Aug 2006189 Brownside Road Rutherglen
Received 26 May 200686-88 High Street Biggar
Received 4 May 200662 Bannatyne Street Lanark
Received 16 Feb 200612 Shawgill Court Law ML8 5SJ
Received 4 May 20068 Ashfield Road Law
Received 4 May 2006Burns Road Kirkmuirhill
Received 25 Apr 20062 Kings Inn Terrace Auchengray ML11 8EL
Received 25 Apr 200634 Wallace Wynd Cambuslang
Received 8 Jun 20069 Viking Terrace Whitehills East Kilbride
Received 3 May 2006250 Brownside Road Rutherglen
Received 2 Oct 200645 Hawthorn Way Cambuslang
Received 2 Oct 200627 Westfarm Grove Cambuslang
Received 2 Oct 200639 Cheviot Crescent East Kilbride
Received 11 Sept 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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