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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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
52-58 Main Street Cambuslang
Received 16 Mar 201096-102 Main Street Rutherglen
Received 16 Mar 2010Pavement On Earnock Road Hamilton
Received 16 Mar 2010Land At Peel Road Thorntonhall G74 5AG
Received 15 Mar 2010West Netherton Water Tower Beech Grove Greenhills East Kilbride G75 9EA
Received 15 Mar 201049A Princes Mall Town Centre East Kilbride G74 1LB
Received 15 Mar 20108 Farrier Crescent Chapelton Strathaven ML10 6SR
Received 15 Mar 2010Lochlyoch Farm Thankerton Biggar
Received 11 Mar 20101-3 Manson Place Kelvin Industrial Estate East Kilbride
Received 31 Mar 201041 Ash Wynd Cambuslang
Received 8 Feb 2010Waverley House Hamilton Business Park Hamilton
Received 26 Jan 201043 Bute East Kilbride G74 2AZ
Received 1 Mar 2010289 Stonelaw Road Rutherglen
Received 10 Feb 201095 Union Street Larkhall
Received 4 Feb 2010Easthills Farm Cathkin Road Rutherglen G73 5RE
Received 27 Jan 2010Ground Adjacent To And Behind 75 Stonefield Road Blantyre
Received 11 Dec 200922 Bent Road Hamilton ML3 6PY
Received 11 Dec 2009Flat 27D (1/2) Hope Street Lanark ML11 7NE
Received 15 Oct 200937 Forth Crescent East Kilbride G75 8XG
Received 13 Oct 2009Area E, Plots 88-98, 123-154, 164 Inc Furrow Crescent/Court, And Roe Drive/Court, Cambuslang
Received 2 Oct 2009Station Road Carluke ML8 5AD
Received 1 Jul 2010111 Murray Drive Stonehouse
Received 1 Jul 201020 Avon Street Larkhall
Received 1 Jul 20106 Brandon Gardens Cambuslang G72 8AQ
Received 30 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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