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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
30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 6 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
10 Park Drive Thorntonhall Glasgow G74 5AS
Received 9 Nov 2009Rose Angle House 52 High Street Biggar
Received 2 Nov 200971/73 Abbeygreen Lesmahagow ML11 0EF
Received 2 Nov 200923 Paddock Court Carluke ML8 4AX
Received 2 Nov 200922 Rosefield Gardens Uddingston
Received 13 Oct 20091 Fairhill Crescent Hamilton
Received 13 Oct 200910 Wheatlandhead Court Blantyre
Received 13 Oct 200930 Burnfoot Crescent Rutherglen
Received 6 Oct 2010Peel Park Hairmyres East Kilbride G74
Received 6 Oct 201015 Angle Street Stonehouse ML9 3LB
Received 5 Oct 20108 Greenhall Place Blantyre G72 9SZ
Received 5 Oct 20107 Croftbank Crescent Uddingston G71 7JD
Received 5 Oct 20105 Haltons Path Uddingston G71 7JG
Received 28 Sept 201016 Lomond View Hamilton ML3 9UZ
Received 28 Sept 201059 Shiel Drive Larkhall
Received 23 Sept 20102 Forsyth Court Lanark ML11 7BQ
Received 22 Sept 2010The Old Joiner's Workshop Lamington
Received 22 Sept 2010Land To The North Of Albion Court Biggar ML12 6ED
Received 30 Apr 201010 Muirlaun Forth ML11 8AQ
Received 30 Apr 20108 Halton Path Uddingston G71 7JG
Received 30 Apr 2010Railway Embankment Lanark Loch Hyndford Road Lanark
Received 30 Apr 2010Land Adjacent To 2A Hamilton Road Bothwell
Received 30 Apr 2010Land Adjacent To 2A Hamilton Road Bothwell
Received 30 Apr 2010Drumsagard Castle Site Junction Of Hallside Boulevard And Elder Crescent Cambuslang
Received 27 Apr 2010Records 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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