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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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Uddingston Road Bothwell G71 8PG
Received 26 Jul 2010Plot Of Land On West Side Of A723
Received 28 May 20108 Barons Gate Bothwell G71 8SJ
Received 28 May 201014 Raploch Street Larkhall ML9
Received 28 May 201012 Clove Mill Wynd Larkhall
Received 28 May 201031 Springbank Crescent Hamilton
Received 8 Jun 2010Moorlands Manse Road Symington Biggar
Received 26 Mar 2010125 Quarry Street Hamilton
Received 18 May 2010Eastfield Farm Biggar Road Symington ML12 6LW
Received 25 Jan 2010Hareshaw Hill North East Of Glenbuck
Received 25 Jan 2010Land West Of Wedder Hill & North Of Monksfoot Near Glenbuck
Received 25 Jan 2010Land South Of Auldhouse Adjacent To Ardochrig Road And Formerly Part Of Logoch Farm East Kilbride
Received 1 Dec 2009Junction With Cathcart Road And Farie Street Rutherglen
Received 13 Nov 200929 Westhouse Avenue Rutherglen
Received 13 Nov 200959 Calderglen Avenue Blantyre G72 9UP
Received 30 Oct 200922 Gardenside Street Uddingston
Received 30 Oct 2009Land Adjacent To 7 Old Bothwell Road Bothwell G71 8AW
Received 25 Oct 201035 Nursery Drive Ashgill ML9 3BQ
Received 8 Sept 2010O-Learys 55 Glasgow Road Rutherglen
Received 7 Sept 20109 Arrol Wynd Cambuslang
Received 7 Sept 201069 Harlequin Court Torhead Farm Hamilton ML3 8SW
Received 3 Sept 2010Site Opposite Larchfield Drive Junction Upper Bourtree Drive Rutherglen
Received 25 Oct 2010Plot 38 East Greenlees Cambuslang
Received 25 Oct 2010Plots 31 & 32 Southern Development Area 2 Lindsayfield (Phase 1) East Kilbride
Received 12 Oct 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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