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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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
8 Airdrie Road Carluke
Received 15 Feb 20109 Abbeygreen Lesmahagow ML11 0EQ
Received 15 Feb 2010Victoria Park School Market Road Carluke ML8 4BE
Received 15 Feb 2010Milton Farm (Derelict) Lesmahagow
Received 15 Feb 2010Plot 1 & 2 Woodpark Lesmahagow
Received 15 Feb 2010Plot 1 & 17 Kirkhope Place Station Road Carluke ML8 5GN
Received 12 Feb 201022 Lytham Meadows Bothwell G71 8ED
Received 21 Dec 200970 Dalrymple Drive East Kilbride G74 4LQ
Received 2 Jul 20102 Broomieknowe Gardens Rutherglen
Received 11 May 201015 Sydes Brae Blantyre G72 0TL
Received 22 Apr 201021 Bishop Gardens Hamilton ML3 7YF
Received 3 Mar 2010Land Adjacent To 57 Kronborg Way East Kilbride G75 0BN
Received 10 Feb 20102 Cherrytree Place Strathaven ML10 6JG
Received 10 Feb 2010Whitelee Forest By Strathaven
Received 27 Jan 201036B Old Coach Road East Kilbride
Received 29 Jan 2010Lees Burn Court East Kilbride
Received 29 Jan 2010Miltonhead Farm Milton Road Carluke ML8 5PZ
Received 6 Jan 2010Energy Technology Centre Rankine Avenue Scottish Enterprise Technology Park East Kilbride
Received 23 Nov 200910 Coll East Kilbride G74 2DS
Received 23 Nov 2009Unit 4 1 Glebe Street East Kilbride G74 4LY
Received 23 Nov 200928 Saddlers Gate Strathaven ML10 6US
Received 23 Nov 20097 Duncansby Drive Blantyre
Received 18 Nov 200973 Bourtree Road Hamilton ML3 8PU
Received 19 Oct 200938 Saltire Crescent Larkhall ML9 2LG
Received 19 Oct 2009Records 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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