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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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Marys Church Bannatyne Street Lanark ML11 7JS
Received 13 Oct 2009Eastside Yieldshields Carluke ML8 4QY
Received 13 Oct 20096 Grasmere East Kilbride G75 8BY
Received 25 Sept 200910 Spruce Drive Cambuslang
Received 24 Feb 2010Plot 2 Woodend Nursery Mousebank Road Lanark
Received 14 Dec 2009Former Kennels At Turlood Cottage Stockbriggs Lesmahagow
Received 14 Dec 200913 Strath Elgin Law ML8 5LF
Received 14 Dec 2009Buildings & Land Adjacent To Hyndford House Lanark
Received 14 Dec 20099 Millgate Terrace Hamilton
Received 5 Oct 200912 Rowan Grove Quarter ML3 7TT
Received 5 Oct 200996 Machanhill Larkhall ML9 2LD
Received 2 Jun 201019 Dunsyre Road Newbigging ML11 8NA
Received 2 Jun 2010Biggarshiels Farm Biggarshiels Road Biggar ML12 6RE
Received 2 Jun 20109 Carlyle Terrace Rutherglen Glasgow G73 1BE
Received 1 Jun 20109 Chestnut Way Cambuslang G72 7XY
Received 28 May 2010Site 1: Site Off Neilvaig Drive Site 2: Site Bounded By Galloway Drive/ Merrick Way Site 3: Site Bounded By Galloway Drive/ Morar Way Rutherglen
Received 28 May 201050 Campsie Road Lindsayfield East Kilbride G75 9GE
Received 28 May 2010Lands To The East Of Kittoch Water South Of Kittoch Bridge By Carmunnock
Received 26 May 20109 Main Street East Kilbride G74 4JH
Received 26 May 201015 Simpson Drive Murray East Kilbride G75 0AZ
Received 26 May 201027 Station Road Leadhills ML12 6XS
Received 5 Mar 2010Playing Fields Off Fernhill Road Rutherglen
Received 3 Mar 201098 Stewarton Drive Cambuslang
Received 2 Mar 201018 Heathfield Drive Blackwood ML11 9SR
Received 1 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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