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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
30,535 approved · 1,269 refused · 2,242 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 3 Nov 2026. Most recent record check: 12 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Greenburn Farm Udston Road Stonehouse
Received 19 Apr 2006Brankston Cottage Dykehead Road Stonehouse
Received 19 Apr 2006Carron Place Kelvin Industrial Estate East Kilbride
Received 28 Jul 2005Philips Lighting Wellhall Road Hamilton
Received 22 Nov 200520 Daly Gardens Blantyre
Received 22 Nov 20058 Manus Duddy Court Blantyre
Received 22 Nov 200561 Brankston Avenue Stonehouse
Received 22 Nov 20054 Silvermuir Ravenstruther ML11 7SD
Received 15 Nov 2005Plot 2 Carnwath Road Braehead
Received 15 Nov 200523 Lockhart Drive Lanark ML11 9HX
Received 15 Nov 2005High Garrion Cornsilloch Brae Larkhall
Received 18 Apr 20061 Gibb Court Stonehouse
Received 18 Apr 200615 Myers Crescent Uddingston
Received 13 Apr 2006Peel Farm Peel Road Thorntonhall
Received 21 Feb 200641 Shiel Drive Larkhall
Received 16 Sept 2005East Mains Farm Manse Road Stonehouse
Received 16 Sept 200519 Larch Grove Hamilton
Received 16 Sept 2005315 Coalburn Road Coalburn ML11 0NF
Received 15 Sept 200540 East Kilbride Road Rutherglen
Received 12 Sept 2005Unit 7 South Avenue Blantyre Industrial Estate Blantyre
Received 8 Sept 2005Build Centre Unit 5, Block 6 Fulwood Industrial Estate Burnbank Road Hamilton
Received 8 Sept 2005Howgate Farm Carmichael
Received 5 Sept 2005Disused Sewage Works Adjacent To A70 Road Lanark ML11 8SG
Received 5 Sept 2005Corehouse By Lanark ML11 9TQ
Received 5 Sept 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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