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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
30,210 approved · 1,256 refused · 2,217 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 11 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
4 Bowmore Gardens Rutherglen
Received 9 Dec 2005Medwyn View Biggar Road Carnwath ML11 8LU
Received 7 Mar 200614 Kirkhill Gardens Cambuslang
Received 23 Jun 20064 Magnolia Terrace Cambuslang
Received 13 Jun 200612 Camp Road (Unit 90) Shawfield Industrial Estate, Rutherglen
Received 6 Jun 200671-73 Glasgow Road Rutherglen
Received 18 May 20063 Wallace Wynd Cambuslang
Received 18 May 20061 Edinburgh Road Cleghorn ML11 7RW
Received 24 Feb 2006Former Woodside Nursery Howes Way Carstairs Junction
Received 23 Feb 200628 Cardon Drive Biggar
Received 9 Dec 20052 Springfield Nursery Cleghorn ML11 7RW
Received 9 Dec 200527 Inch Keith St Leonards East Kilbride
Received 31 Oct 200543 Melfort Road Hamilton
Received 4 Jul 2006The Mews East Overton House Strathaven
Received 23 May 2006Plot 1 Land Adjacent To Crawford Mains Carlisle Road Crawford
Received 6 Feb 20065 The Loaning Douglas ML11 0QE
Received 31 Jul 200629 Underwood Road Rutherglen
Received 14 Jul 2006Lindsayfield Road East Kilbride
Received 30 Jun 200673 Peel Road Thontonhall East Kilbride G74 5AA
Received 30 Jun 2006Messrs Andrew W Harvie Auchenfin Farm Auldhouse Road Auldhouse G75 9DR
Received 30 Jun 20064 Glen Lyon East Kilbride G74 2JJ
Received 30 Jun 2006Burnhead Hawksland ML11 9QB
Received 8 Sept 2006The Pines Muirhouse Libberton ML11 8LX
Received 8 Sept 200644 Scioncroft Avenue Rutherglen
Received 8 Sept 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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