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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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
31 Strathallan Wynd East Kilbride
Received 26 Aug 2010Opposite Unit 3 Peel Park Place College Milton South East Kilbride
Received 26 Aug 201014 Fallside Road Bothwell G71 8HF
Received 24 Aug 201014 Afton Gardens Blantyre
Received 15 Jun 201017 Arran Gardens Carluke ML8 4HS
Received 17 Aug 201026 Quarry Road Law ML8 5HB
Received 17 Aug 20101 Shearwater Grove Lesmahagow
Received 24 May 201036 Common Green Strathaven South Lanarkshire ML10 6AF
Received 10 Aug 201021 Douglas Street Strathaven South Lanarkshire ML10 6BU
Received 10 Aug 201014 Langlands Place Kelvin South Business Park East Kilbride G75 0YF
Received 2 Aug 201046 Overton Avenue Strathaven South Lanarkshire ML10 6NR
Received 2 Aug 201013 Brechame Road Chapelton Strathaven ML10 6SP
Received 2 Aug 20101 Main Street Uddingston
Received 12 Nov 2009Blackwood Estate Blackwood
Received 2 Nov 2009Kirkton Parish Church Manse 9 Station Road Carluke, ML8 5AA
Received 4 Nov 200917 Main Street Braehead
Received 4 Nov 2009Kirkton Parish Church Manse 9 Station Road Carluke ML8 5AA
Received 4 Nov 20096 Tamar Drive East Kilbride G75 8TZ
Received 4 Oct 2009Unit 1 Langlands Place Kelvin South Business Park East Kilbride G75 0YF
Received 4 Nov 2009Castle Avenue Uddingston
Received 28 Oct 200996 Carlisle Road Ferniegair Hamilton
Received 28 Oct 200953 Burnbank Road Hamilton
Received 28 Oct 2009Kirklands Hospital Fallside Road Bothwell
Received 8 Oct 2009Plot 5 Earls Gate Bothwell
Received 8 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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