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
30,209 approved · 1,254 refused · 2,215 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Tinto View Nursery Ashgillhead Road Ashgill
Received 13 Oct 2006341 Kings Park Avenue Rutherglen
Received 9 Nov 20065-7 Kirk Street Stonehouse
Received 2 Nov 200622 Dechmont Street Hamilton
Received 2 Nov 2006Closeburn Cottage Ayr Road Shawsburn
Received 2 Nov 200665 Sycamore Drive Hamilton
Received 2 Nov 200622 Low Quarry Gardens Hamilton
Received 2 Nov 200638 Calderglen Avenue Blantyre
Received 2 Nov 20067 Quebec Green East Kilbride
Received 9 Oct 200641 Lyttleton East Kilbride G75 9BP
Received 9 Oct 200623 Clarkin Avenue East Kilbride
Received 18 Sept 2006Auldtoun Byre Auldtoun Farm Lesmahagow
Received 16 Feb 2007Crooklands Bungalow Haywood Forth ML11 8ES
Received 16 Feb 20072 Kirkland Park Strathaven
Received 16 Feb 200755 Lilac Wynd Cambuslang
Received 24 May 2006The Sun Inn 283-285 Hamilton Road Cambuslang
Received 24 May 20065 Ingerbeck Avenue Rutherglen
Received 24 May 2006Wallace Cave 11 Bloomgate Lanark ML11 9ET
Received 3 Aug 200624 Brouster Hill East Kilbride
Received 3 Aug 200634 Glassford Road Strathaven
Received 3 Aug 2006117 Quebec Drive East Kilbride
Received 3 Aug 2006The Homestead Strathaven Road Hamilton
Received 3 Aug 2006Manse Road Forth ML11 8AN
Received 2 Aug 20063 Stanehead Park Biggar ML12 6PU
Received 2 Aug 2006Records 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.
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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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