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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
30,302 approved · 1,261 refused · 2,226 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
St Athanasius RC Church Mount Stewart Street Carluke
Received 2 Mar 2006Hunterlees House Hunterlees Road Glassford
Received 21 Nov 20054 Overlea Avenue Rutherglen
Received 18 Nov 200546 Woodside Avenue Rutherglen
Received 18 Nov 200521 Sanderling Place Greenhills East Kilbride
Received 7 Feb 20068 Golf View Strathaven
Received 4 Jan 2006Unit 7 South Avenue Blantyre Industrial Estate Blantyre
Received 10 Apr 200617 Rosebank Avenue Blantyre
Received 10 Apr 2006Westburn Road Cambuslang
Received 10 Apr 2006One Stop Shop Main Street Coalburn
Received 6 Jun 20051 Glen Falloch St Leonards East Kilbride
Received 18 Oct 20059 Tamar Drive East Kilbride
Received 17 Oct 200561 Wellesley Crescent East Kilbride
Received 17 Oct 2005145 Calderwood Road Rutherglen
Received 17 Oct 2005Whirlies Roundabout East Kilbride
Received 17 Oct 2005Hamilton Road East Kilbride
Received 17 Oct 2005Strathaven Road At Young Place East Kilbride
Received 17 Oct 2005Heights Of Coldstream (Formerly Coldstream Cottage) Coldstream Road Strathaven
Received 20 Feb 2006Off Eaglesham Road Redwood Peel Park East Kilbride
Received 20 Feb 200643 Jamaica Drive East Kilbride
Received 20 Feb 2006Fallburn Holdings Toll Cottage Thankerton
Received 6 Sept 200575 Rhyber Avenue Lanark ML11 7AR
Received 2 Sept 2005Ground To West Of Property Forming 133 St Leonard Street Lanark ML11 7DT
Received 2 Sept 2005Land To South Of Cairngryffe Street Lower Pettinain
Received 23 Aug 2005Records 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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