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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30,535 approved · 1,269 refused · 2,242 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
1 Weirs Lane Carluke ML8 4AN
Received 27 Jan 2006Hamilton Town Square Hamilton
Received 31 Aug 2005The Lairs Blackwood
Received 23 Aug 20054 Glebe Wynd Bothwell
Received 17 Aug 20058 Burns Wynd Weavers Court Stonehouse
Received 17 Aug 2005Former Blantyre Mills Station Road Blantyre
Received 8 Nov 2005Land At Old Mill Road Uddingston
Received 2 Nov 2005Crossgates Street Larkhall
Received 2 Nov 20051 Grenville Drive Cambuslang
Received 24 Feb 2006G/F 1 Langlands Gate Langlands Business Park East Kilbride
Received 27 Jan 2006St Brides Cottage High Kype Road Strathaven
Received 27 Jan 20069 Montgomery Street The Village East Kilbride
Received 30 Dec 2005Land At Lindsayfield Avenue East Kilbride
Received 22 Dec 2005Dicks Barn The Peel Busby
Received 22 Dec 200515 Parkandarroch Crescent Carluke ML8 4DT
Received 22 Dec 2005Kilnhills Farm Hawksland ML11 9PZ
Received 22 Dec 2005Kirkmuirhill Inn 30 Thornton Road Kirkmuirhill ML11 9QE
Received 22 Dec 200512C Brownlee Road Law ML8 5JD
Received 23 Aug 2005The Acres Lands Of Tweedieside Roman Road Sandford
Received 9 Aug 2005Bothwell Tennis Club Mill Road Bothwell
Received 9 Aug 20059 Ness Terrace Hamilton
Received 9 Aug 200515 Trongate Stonehouse
Received 9 Aug 200595 Machanhill Larkhall
Received 9 Aug 20051 Dornoch Drive Blantyre
Received 1 Aug 2005Records 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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