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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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
3 Lanark Road Braidwood ML8 4PW
Received 12 Jan 2010East Forth Road/Manse Road Forth
Received 23 Dec 20091A Kittochside Cottage Kittochside Road Clarkston
Received 25 Jan 20091A Kittochside Cottage Kittochside Road Kittochside Glasgow
Received 25 Nov 200912 Young Street Strathaven
Received 25 Nov 200980 Lanark Road Carstairs ML11 8QH
Received 17 Nov 200918 St Leonard Street Lanark ML11 7AB
Received 17 Nov 200924 Biggar Road Libberton ML11 8LT
Received 11 Nov 200943 Bardykes Road Blantyre
Received 29 Oct 200922 Waverley Street Larkhall
Received 30 Sept 2009Land To Rear Of Heathfield Cottage Carlisle Road Crawford ML12 6TP
Received 20 Oct 200952 High Street Biggar ML12 6BJ
Received 20 Oct 200920 Nethan View Blackwood ML11 9YN
Received 16 Oct 2009The Welkin Crossford ML8 5QH
Received 15 Oct 200939 Main Street & Land To West Of 39 Main Street Rutherglen
Received 7 Oct 20095 Livingstone Boulevard Hamilton International Technology Park Blantyre G72 0BP
Received 11 Oct 20107 Springfield Avenue Uddingston G71 7LY
Received 11 Oct 2010The Food Stop 19 Law Place Nerston Ind Est East Kilbride G74 4QL
Received 22 Feb 2010Raws Farm High Kype Road Sandford ML10 6PR
Received 22 Feb 20108 Gilchrist Loan Lesmahagow ML11 0NB
Received 20 Aug 20097 Rosedale Stewartfield East Kilbride
Received 14 Oct 200918 Kirktonholme Road East Kilbride
Received 14 Oct 20094 Brooklime Drive Stewartfield East Kilbride G74 4UD
Received 14 Oct 2009Reuther Hall Victoria Street Rutherglen
Received 2 Jun 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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