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
30,248 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,214 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Beckford Street Hamilton
Received 6 Oct 200940 Allanshaw Gardens Hamilton
Received 6 Oct 200939 Meikle Crescent Hamilton
Received 6 Oct 200918 Auctioneers Way Lanark ML11 9FD
Received 22 Apr 2010Plots 201-249 Newton Farm Cambuslang G72 7UQ
Received 23 Apr 2010176 Brownside Road Rutherglen G73 5AZ
Received 23 Apr 2010Units 2-4 Princes Mall East Kilbride
Received 19 Apr 20104 Larch Close Cambuslang
Received 16 Apr 2010The Doon Inn 93 Broompark Road Blantyre
Received 14 Apr 2010100 Broompark Road High Blantyre
Received 14 Apr 20104 Heathfield Drive Blackwood ML11 9SR
Received 8 Apr 2010Braemoor Howgate Road Roberton
Received 8 Apr 201010 Canonbie Lane East Kilbride
Received 8 Apr 20109 Maclean Grove Stewartfield East Kilbride
Received 8 Apr 20105 Muirburn Place Glassford Strathaven
Received 8 Apr 20101 Greenbank Crescent Glassford Strathaven ML10 6UA
Received 8 Jun 2009Dormiston House Vere Road Kirkmuirhill ML11 9QQ
Received 24 Mar 2010Plot 8 Technology Avenue Hamilton International Park Blantyre
Received 8 Feb 2010142 Station Road Blantyre G72 9BW
Received 8 Feb 2010Land South Of Auldhouse, Adjacent To Ardochrig Road And Formerly Part Of Logoch Farm
Received 11 Dec 2009Wellhall 60 Wellhall Road Hamilton ML3 9DL
Received 22 Mar 20103 Kirkton Street Carluke ML8 4AB
Received 11 Mar 2010Greenshields Farm Greenshields Biggar
Received 11 Mar 2010Westmill Farm Dolphinton
Received 11 Mar 2010Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsArea alerts send a daily or weekly email with new applications and decisions near a postcode, filtered by project type. £29 a month, up to 3 areas. Records are limited to the councils we collect.
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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage