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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
30,246 approved · 1,257 refused · 2,221 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
10 Kenshaw Avenue Larkhall
Received 5 Oct 2005Hillview Crescent Glespin ML11 0SE
Received 2 Nov 200512 Larkspur Way Carluke ML8 5TD
Received 2 Nov 2005Pleasance Cottage Kirkfieldbank
Received 1 Nov 2005Yard At Middleton Avenue Strutherhill Industrial Estate Larkhall
Received 13 Feb 20064 Sherwood Avenue Uddingston
Received 13 Feb 200611 Weavers Yard Douglas ML11 Oqb
Received 13 Feb 200618 Southern Avenue Rutherglen
Received 27 Jun 200627 Crofthead Street Strathaven
Received 26 Jun 2006Burnbrae Prettsmill Sandilands
Received 6 Jun 20066 South Avenue Carluke
Received 6 Jun 200653 Carlisle Road Blackwood ML11 9RZ
Received 6 Jun 2006Shieldhill Hotel Quothquan ML12 6NA
Received 19 Dec 200561-65 Main Street Forth
Received 19 Dec 20053 Thomson Grove Cambuslang
Received 11 Apr 200624 Muirbank Gardens Rutherglen
Received 11 Apr 200626 Castle Gate Uddingston
Received 10 Apr 2006Icm House Unit B Technology Avenue Internation Technology Park Blantyre
Received 10 Apr 2006421 Kings Park Avenue Rutherglen
Received 10 Apr 20067 Rennie Place College Milton North East Kilbride
Received 20 Feb 2006Crystals Bar The Bruce Flagship Hotel 35 Cornwall Street East Kilbride
Received 20 Feb 2006Silvermuir Farm Ravenstruther ML11 7SF
Received 6 Apr 200662 Hospitland Drive Lanark
Received 6 Apr 2006St Johns Primary School Dixon Street Hamilton
Received 3 Apr 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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