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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31,176 approved · 1,286 refused · 2,290 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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Received 23 May 2005Auldhouse Arms 6/12 Langlands Road Auldhouse East Kilbride
Received 23 May 2005419 Kingsbridge Drive Rutherglen
Received 16 May 2005Unit 7 Clyde Valley Retail Park Hyndford Road Lanark
Received 23 May 2005Horse And Jockey 56 High Street Lanark ML11 7ES
Received 23 May 2005Land Adjoining West Millrigg Farm Millrigg Road Wiston ML12 6HU
Received 23 May 2005Little Clyde Farm Cottage Elvanfoot Biggar ML12 6RL
Received 23 May 200558 Bellfield Road Coalburn ML11 0LA
Received 20 May 200575 Bankhead Road Rutherglen
Received 20 May 20059 Landsdowne Road Larkhall
Received 20 May 2005Kilncadzow Road Roadmeetings Carluke ML8 4QG
Received 20 May 2005Bankhead Farm Braxfield Road Lanark
Received 20 May 200516 Rogerhill Gait Blackwood ML11 9XR
Received 20 May 20051 Napier Gardens Blackwood
Received 20 May 2005Plot 58, 43 Oak Wynd Drumsagard Village Cambuslang
Received 19 May 200534 Buchanan Drive Rutherglen
Received 19 May 2005Greens Farm Cottage Newbigging ML11 8NB
Received 19 May 2005Plumb Center Unit M, Taywood Enterprise Centre Duchess Place, Off Cambuslang Road Rutherglen
Received 18 May 200511 Reid Street Rutherglen
Received 18 May 2005135 Rockhampton Avenue East Kilbride
Received 12 May 2005'Lawside Of Heads' Glassford
Received 12 May 2005135 Chatelherault Crescent Hamilton
Received 17 May 200511A Dunard Road Rutherglen
Received 17 May 2005Greenbank Crescent Glassford
Received 16 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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