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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
31,117 approved · 1,286 refused · 2,284 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
57 Tanzieknowe Road Cambuslang
Received 27 Sept 2005Cambuslang Road Rutherglen
Received 27 Sept 2005Cartland Road Cartland
Received 22 Sept 200513 Blue Tower Douglas ML11 Oql
Received 22 Sept 2005Upper Throughburn Farm Forth ML11 8HD
Received 22 Sept 20052 Friarsfield Road Lanark ML11 9EN
Received 22 Sept 200514 Stirling Drive Rutherglen
Received 13 Sept 200561 Wallace Wynd Cambuslang
Received 13 Sept 200520 Macdonald Avenue Kittoch Glen East Kilbride
Received 3 May 200513 Lowther Crescent Stonehouse ML9 3JT
Received 27 Jun 200572 Kirkton Avenue Blantyre
Received 27 Jun 200514 Bothwell Road Hamilton
Received 27 Jun 200540 Melbourne Avenue East Kilbride
Received 21 Jun 200534 Old Coach Road East Mains East Kilbride
Received 21 Jun 2005Strathaven WWTW Townmill Stonehouse Road Strathaven
Received 15 Jun 200564 The Plaza East Kilbride
Received 15 Jun 2005Silver Choice Travel 1 Milton Road College Milton North Industrial Estate East Kilbride
Received 15 Jun 200559 Lomond Whitehills East Kilbride
Received 15 Jun 200522 Edmonton Terrace East Kilbride
Received 15 Jun 2005Basement Of 104 Cadzow Street Access Of Lower Auchingramont Road Hamilton
Received 13 Oct 200518 Cleveden Drive Rutherglen
Received 13 Sept 2005Greenstead Auchengray ML11 8LW
Received 18 Aug 20057 Southfield Road Blackwood
Received 20 Jul 200511 Avondale Place East Kilbride
Received 11 Jul 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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