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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
30,974 approved · 1,282 refused · 2,273 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 3 May 2005 to 6 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
24 Fraser Street Cambuslang
Received 4 Jul 20058 Coldstream Drive Rutherglen
Received 4 Jul 200516 Braedale Road Lanark
Received 28 Jun 200511 Dillarburn Road Dillarburn ML11 9PQ
Received 28 Jun 200511 Arran Gardens Carluke ML8 4HS
Received 15 Jun 200512 Lochar Place Gardenhall East Kilbride
Received 21 Oct 200552 Caneluk Avenue Carluke ML8 4NE
Received 21 Oct 2005Ponfeigh Sandilands
Received 21 Oct 200530 Mulberry Wynd Cambuslang
Received 19 Aug 200539 Dunbar Avenue Rutherglen
Received 19 Aug 2005Holiday Inn (Currently Hilton Hotel) Stewartfield Way East Kilbride
Received 5 Aug 200539 Lochranza Drive Lindsayfield East Kilbride
Received 5 Aug 2005107 Meikle Earnock Road Hamilton
Received 9 Jun 200556 Woodlands Crescent Bothwell
Received 9 Jun 200515 Brown Street Larkhall
Received 2 Jun 200543 Pine Crescent Hamilton
Received 2 Jun 200531 Scotia Gardens Hamilton
Received 2 Jun 2005Mavor Avenue Nerston East Kilbride
Received 23 Aug 2005Laigh Braehead Braehead Road Thorntonhall
Received 23 Aug 2005Hoodshill Farm Dillarburn Lesmahagow
Received 22 Aug 2005Plot 1 Land To West Of Brae Cottage Elsrickle
Received 22 Aug 2005Woods Farm Lanark Road Auchenheath
Received 22 Aug 2005'Woodrife' 144 Maxwellton Avenue East Kilbride
Received 10 Aug 20056 Thistle Place Stewartfield East Kilbride
Received 10 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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