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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
31,176 approved · 1,286 refused · 2,290 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
29 Westport Hairmyres East Kilbride
Received 3 May 200519 Inglewood Crescent East Kilbride
Received 3 May 20053 Clamps Wood St Leonards East Kilbride
Received 3 May 2005Robert Reid & Sons Unit 27A Allanshaw Industrial Estate Baird Crescent Hamilton
Received 15 Aug 2005Unit 32 East Kilbride Plaza East Kilbride
Received 3 Aug 200518 Borthwick Drive Gardenhall East Kilbride
Received 5 Jul 200540 Abbotsford Crescent Strathaven
Received 5 Jul 200511 Overton Road Strathaven
Received 5 Jul 200577 Hawkwood East Kilbride
Received 5 Jul 20057 Macnicol Park East Kilbride
Received 5 Jul 2005Pavement, Lickprivick Road (Adjacent To Greenhills Shopping Centre) East Kilbride
Received 5 Jul 2005Duchess Place Rutherglen
Received 13 Oct 2005Craigie 9 Hillside Gardens Dolphinton EH46 7AE
Received 13 Oct 200512 Bridgend View Carluke ML8 4HL
Received 13 Oct 2005Glasgow Road Rutherglen
Received 12 Oct 2005Land At Grangehall Farm Pettinain
Received 24 May 20053 Belstane Mews Carluke
Received 24 May 2005Mason Croft, 2, Falla Farm Carnwath
Received 24 May 20059 Friarsfield Road Lanark ML11
Received 24 May 2005Land Adjacent To Linnhead Farm Kirkfieldbank ML11 9TJ
Received 18 May 2005Kirkhill Bowling Club 53 Stewarton Drive Cambuslang
Received 23 May 2005Greenhills Bar Greenhills Square East Kilbride
Received 23 May 2005Shawton Road Chapelton Strathaven
Received 23 May 200526 Redpath Drive Cambuslang
Received 23 May 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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