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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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
37 Russell Street Hamilton ML3 0QW
Received 12 Oct 20101 Cochrane Street Strathaven ML10 6ND
Received 11 Oct 2010Hyndford Quarry Hyndford Road Lanark ML11 9TA
Received 7 Oct 2010Glentaggart East (Satellite) Surface Mine Glentaggart Surface Mine Glespin ML11 0SJ
Received 6 Oct 201016 Kintyre Wynd Carluke ML8 5RW
Received 30 Sept 2010Westhouse Farm High Kype Road Strathaven
Received 11 Nov 200948 Townhead Street Strathaven
Received 11 Nov 200921 Thorntree Avenue Hamilton
Received 15 Oct 2009Cathkin Landfill Site Cairnmuir Road East Kilbride G74 4GY
Received 14 Oct 2009Greenstrands Farm Sandilands ML11 9TY
Received 29 Sept 200959 St Nicholas Road Lanark ML11 7AX
Received 29 Sept 200919 Carmuir Forth ML11 8AR
Received 29 Sept 20099 Draffan Road Netherburn Larkhall
Received 14 Dec 200969A Woodside Avenue Rutherglen G73 3JT
Received 22 Mar 201057 Beattock Wynd Hamilton
Received 13 Jul 200916 Monkcastle Drive Cambuslang
Received 21 Jul 2009The Boxshop Ltd 1/3 Manson Place Kelvin Industrial Estate East Kilbride G75 0QW
Received 7 Sept 2009Glebe House Dunsyre ML11 8NQ
Received 21 Aug 2009Plot At Belstane Town Farm Carluke ML8 4QA
Received 19 May 20095 Brooklands Avenue Uddingston
Received 3 Jul 2009Newfield Primary School Muirhead Stonehouse
Received 14 Sept 200926 Silverwells Crescent Bothwell
Received 29 Jun 2009Parks 2 Braeview Place East Kilbride G74 3XH
Received 29 Jun 201047 Carron Place Kelvin Industrial Estate East Kilbride G75
Received 29 Jun 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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