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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
30,251 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
33 Bogside Road Ashgill Larkhall
Received 8 Jul 2009Plot 13 Earls Gate Bothwell
Received 8 Jul 2009Land Adjacent To 2A Hamilton Road Bothwell
Received 30 Jun 200927 Coll Lea Hamilton
Received 30 Jun 200967 Bardykes Road Blantyre
Received 30 Jun 2009Land At Clydesmill Industrial Estate Cambuslang
Received 16 Jun 200916 Orchard Gardens Strathaven ML10 6UN
Received 11 Jun 200913 County Avenue Cambuslang
Received 5 Jun 2009Chapelknowe Lanark Road Hazelbank ,ML11 9XN
Received 29 May 2009Plot A Land Opposite Springdale House Broadwood Gilkerscleugh Abington, ML12 6SQ
Received 29 May 2009Plot C Land To The West Of Low Gilkerscleugh Abington ML12 6SQ
Received 29 May 2009Unit 5A Lanark Agricultural Centre Muirglen Hyndford Road Lanark, ML11 9AX
Received 29 May 200929 School Road Sandford
Received 31 Jul 2009Former JVC Factory 2 Glenburn Road East Kilbride G74 5BA
Received 10 Jun 2009Unit 10 41 St James Avenue East Kilbride
Received 10 Jun 2009Unit 10 41 St James Avenue East Kilbride G74 5QD
Received 10 Jun 200949 Craigallian Avenue Cambuslang
Received 8 May 2009Auld West Kirk Howgate Road Roberton ML12 6RS
Received 12 Oct 2009The Bramblings Mid Loan Street Braidwood ML8 5NX
Received 9 Oct 2009Burnsands Roberton ML12 6RS
Received 12 Oct 2009Plot 7 Orchard Lane Carluke ML8 4QU
Received 12 Oct 2009Plot A & B North Of The Star Inn Lesmahagow
Received 28 Jul 2008The Gate Restaurant 36 Wellgate Lanark ML11 9DT
Received 2 Mar 2009Iceland 96-102 Main Street Rutherglen
Received 20 Mar 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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