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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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Sunflowers Church Lane Wiston ML12 6GA
Received 9 Aug 201015 Snaefell Crescent Glasgow G73 5BY
Received 9 Aug 2010Carlisle Road Blackwood ML11 9RZ
Received 9 Aug 2010Land At Carstairs Village South Lanarkshire ML11 8QL
Received 6 Aug 20102 Cottage Cleghorn Farm Lanark ML11 7RN
Received 6 Aug 201019 Townhill Road Hamilton ML3 9UX
Received 12 May 20108 Pitlochry Place Blantyre
Received 15 Dec 20093 Windmill Road Hamilton
Received 15 Dec 200996 Machanhill Larkhall ML9 2LD
Received 14 Dec 2009118-122 Quarry Street Hamilton
Received 10 Dec 2009The Bungalow Hyndford House Hyndford Road Lanark ML11 9TA
Received 21 Jun 201032 Manitoba Crescent East Kilbride Glasgow G75 8NN
Received 21 Jun 2010Vacant Ground Between Cala Site & BMJ Properties Ltd Site Eaglesham Road East Kilbride
Received 18 Jun 201013 Bereholm Lesmahagow ML11 0EN
Received 17 Jun 201022 Avondale Place East Kilbride G74 1NU
Received 14 Jun 2010Greenshield House Farm Carnwath ML11 8LH
Received 20 Nov 2009Land At Cat Shoulder, East Of Camps Reservoir Crawford ML12 6UD
Received 11 May 201041 Lightburn Road Halfway Cambuslang
Received 22 Jun 2009Carrigans Diner 3 Birkhill Road Hamilton
Received 3 Jun 2009Carrigans Diner 3 Birkhill Road Hamilton
Received 3 Jun 2009162 Auchinraith Road Blantyre
Received 3 Jun 200943 Union Street Hamilton
Received 3 Jun 2009Phase 2B The Beeches Lanark
Received 28 May 2009Land To South East Of Huntlybank House Huntlybank Ravenstruther
Received 28 May 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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