Understanding planning · 13 min read
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30,249 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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: 7 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
71 Wellhall Road Hamilton ML3 9BY
Received 5 Jul 20101 Elm Way Larkhall ML9 2BD
Received 5 Jul 2010Land Adjacent To Muirfoot Terrace Cleghorn ML11 8PB
Received 1 Jul 201012 Whites Neuk Lanark ML11 7EE
Received 1 Jul 20101 East Greenlees Grove Cambuslang G72 8YT
Received 29 Jun 201060/62 High Street Carluke ML8 4AJ
Received 3 Feb 20109 Quarry Street Larkhall ML9 2NT
Received 13 Apr 2010Hamilton Rugby Club (Over-Spill Car Park) 121 Bent Road Hamilton
Received 13 Apr 2010Cosy Corner 189 Mill Road Hamilton ML3 8PE
Received 13 Apr 201016 Loch Torridon St Leonards East Kilbride
Received 22 Jan 201018 Sneddon Street Burnbank ML3 0QX
Received 19 Jan 20102 Legion Place Larkhall ML9 2HU
Received 19 Jan 201046 Rosslyn Avenue Rutherglen Glasgow G73 3HA
Received 7 Jun 201014 The Holdings Sidehead Road Stonehouse
Received 4 May 2010Plot Behind Dwellinghouse 43 Hunthill Road Blantyre G72 9SR
Received 4 May 201014 Southend Drive Strathaven ML10 6QT
Received 4 May 201017 Glasgow Road Uddingston
Received 21 Apr 2010Golf Centre Blantyre Farm Road Blantyre G71 7RR
Received 16 Apr 201031 Kittoch Street East Kilbride G74 4JW
Received 30 Mar 2010140 Waverley East Kilbride G74 3PE
Received 25 Mar 2010High Brownmuir Farm Glassford Strathaven ML10 6TX
Received 25 Mar 2010Ladehead Farm Lesmahagow ML11 0HZ
Received 15 Mar 201050 Barmore Avenue Carluke
Received 11 Mar 201040 Cityford Drive Rutherglen
Received 29 Dec 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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