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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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Leafield House 3A Ayr Road Ashgill Larkhall
Received 27 Apr 2010Poets Cottage 3 Lanark Road Rosebank
Received 27 Apr 2010Poets Cottage 3 Lanark Road Rosebank
Received 27 Apr 201011 Beech Avenue Larkhall
Received 27 Apr 201099 Grenville Drive Cambuslang
Received 23 Mar 2010Hamilton Bridge Club 121 Cadzow Street Hamilton ML3 6JA
Received 21 Apr 2010Land At Broompark Avenue Blantyre
Received 19 Apr 2010Elmwood Lodge Blantyre Mill Road Bothwell
Received 7 May 2010Elmwood Lodge Blantyre Mill Road Bothwell
Received 7 May 2010Plot 16 Earls Gate Bothwell
Received 7 May 201031 Reid Street Burnbank Hamilton ML3 0RG
Received 21 Dec 200925 McCallum Grove East Kilbride G74 4SJ
Received 18 Nov 20094 Kelvin Crescent East Kilbride G75 0TY
Received 18 Nov 20099 Victoria Street Rutherglen
Received 29 Sept 2009David William House Block 2, Units 13-18 First Road High Blantyre Industrial Estate Blantyre G72 0ND
Received 21 Oct 201050 Wilson Place Nerston Industrial Estate East Kilbride G74 4QD
Received 12 Oct 20108 Moffat Court Kirkmuirhill ML11 9YJ
Received 4 Oct 2010Belstane Farm Belstane Road Carluke ML8 4QA
Received 4 Oct 2010Kennoxhead Wind Farm Near Glepsin
Received 4 Oct 2010Kennoxhead Wind Farm Near Glespin
Received 4 Oct 2010Roselea Dolphinton South Lanarkshire EH46 7HH
Received 17 Sept 20102 Burnbank Brae Carluke ML8 4EW
Received 17 Sept 201022 Craigmuir Road Blantyre G72 9UA
Received 16 Sept 20105 Overlea Avenue Rutherglen G73 3LR
Received 14 Sept 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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