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
30,214 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,215 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 10 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
6 Anderson Street Burnbank
Received 21 Jul 200614 Dunbeath Grove West Craigs High Blantyre
Received 21 Jul 2006Sefton Park Care Home Carlisle Road Larkhall
Received 21 Jul 2006Land Forming Part Of Poniel Farm & Holdings SW Of Junction 11, M74 Near Coalburn South Lanarkshire
Received 28 Jun 200621 Cedar Crescent Hamilton
Received 27 Apr 2006Mount Herrick Crawfordjohn
Received 20 Jul 200611 Hawksland Walk Hamilton
Received 19 Jul 20067 Sunningdale Wynd Bothwell
Received 19 Jul 200640 Portland Place Hamilton
Received 19 Jul 200641 Melfort Road Hamilton
Received 19 Jul 20061 Miller Street Hamilton
Received 19 Jul 200648 The Marches Lanark
Received 18 Jul 2006Woodhead Crescent Hamilton
Received 8 Aug 200699 Cherrytree Crescent Larkhall
Received 8 Aug 2006"The Bungalow" Wellbuttslea Kirkfieldbank
Received 4 Aug 2006Land At West Millrigg Farm Millrigg Road Wiston
Received 4 Aug 2006Plot At Linnhead Farm Sandilands Lanark
Received 26 Jul 2006Area Of Ground Between 22 And 52 Bellfield Road Coalburn
Received 26 Jul 200624 Waverley Drive Rutherglen
Received 26 Jul 2006Cathkin Primary School Burnside Road, Rutherglen
Received 26 Jul 20069 Stonebyres Kirkfieldbank
Received 26 Jul 2006Unit 1 Queensway Retail Park Linwood Avenue/Queensway East Kilbride
Received 24 Jul 200618 Ballantrae Stewartfield East Kilbride
Received 7 Jul 2006Birch Lodge Crossford
Received 23 May 2006Records 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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