Understanding planning · 13 min read
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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 25 Feb 2010Silk Cottage 35 Miller Street Larkhall ML9 2HL
Received 23 Feb 201022 Etive Place Larkhall ML9 2QY
Received 23 Feb 2010117 Cedar Drive East Kilbride G75 9HZ
Received 11 Feb 201013 Common Green Strathaven ML10 6AQ
Received 11 Feb 201060-62 High Street Carluke ML8 6AJ
Received 4 Feb 20101 Greentowers Road Cartland ML11 7RD
Received 10 Feb 201023 Bloomgate Lanark ML11 9EZ
Received 10 Feb 2010Coalburn Waste Water Treatment Works Coalburn ML11 0NF
Received 1 Feb 2010Red Moss Hotel 72 Carlisle Road Crawfordjohn ML12 6SX
Received 1 Feb 201016 Kildare Road Lanark ML11 7AE
Received 29 Jan 201014 Low Quarry Gardens Hamilton ML3 6RH
Received 13 Jan 20102 Hamilton Road Bothwell G71 8NE
Received 13 Jan 2010Site At Junction Of Calder Street/Victoria Street Blantyre
Received 13 Jan 2010Plot 23 Andrew Baxter Avenue Shawsburn
Received 3 Dec 20097 Glassford Road Strathaven ML10 6LL
Received 24 Nov 200928 Waterloo Road Lanark ML11 7PZ
Received 9 Nov 2009Strathaven Waste Water Treatment Works Townmill Stonehouse Road Strathaven ML10 6LF
Received 30 Oct 200947/49 Regent Way Hamilton
Received 2 Oct 200917A Bellshill Road Bothwell G71 8BJ
Received 24 May 20101 McCallum Road Larkhall ML9 2QR
Received 15 Apr 201019 Holmwood Gardens Uddingston G71 7BH
Received 24 Mar 201023 Dungavel Gardens Hamilton ML3 7PE
Received 24 Mar 2010Vacant Land At London Street Larkhall
Received 24 Mar 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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