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30,218 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,215 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
South Lodge Quothquan
Received 5 May 200625 Hunter Grove Calderwood East Kilbride
Received 16 Feb 200617A Hunthill Road Blantyre
Received 6 Jun 200669 Raploch Road Larkhall
Received 6 Jun 2006Barncluith Road Hamilton
Received 6 Jun 2006Stonehouse Violet F C Social Club Newfield Road Stonehouse
Received 6 Jun 200610 Sheepburn Road Uddingston
Received 1 Jun 200614 Quarry Place Hamilton
Received 30 Jan 2007The Ranch Public House 2 Duke Street Larkhall
Received 30 Jan 2007Jilts Bar 14 Brandon Street Hamilton
Received 30 Jan 2007Plot At Ardoch/Letham Farm Lesmahagow ML11 0JH
Received 30 Jan 2007'Howlands' Woodend Road Carluke ML8 4EG
Received 30 Jan 200712 Glasgow Road Uddingston
Received 16 Jan 200722 Muir Street Law ML8 5JJ
Received 31 Jan 2007Strathclyde Fire Brigade 99 Bothwell Road Hamilton
Received 29 Jan 200796 Clyde Street Carluke ML8 5BG
Received 25 Jan 20078 Bowmont Place Gardenhall East Kilbride
Received 28 Dec 2006White Lodge 93 Peel Road Thorntonhall
Received 28 Dec 2006Chapelton Wastewater Treatment Works Chapelton
Received 28 Dec 200617 Redwood Crescent Cambuslang
Received 20 Dec 2006Adjacent To 128 Lightburn Road Cambuslang
Received 20 Dec 200633 Dryburgh Avenue Rutherglen
Received 20 Dec 20067 Victoria Road Rutherglen
Received 2 Oct 200611 West Fairholm Street Larkhall
Received 1 Sept 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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