Understanding planning · 13 min read
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
31,243 approved · 1,289 refused · 2,296 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
Curry's Unit D Mavor Avenue East Kilbride
Received 10 May 200562 Keswick Road East Kilbride
Received 10 May 2005Carlisle Road Ferniegair Hamilton
Received 10 May 20051 Turnberry Wynd Bothwell
Received 10 May 200544 Alder Place East Kilbride
Received 10 May 200529 Springfield Park Road Rutherglen
Received 9 May 200530 Lyell Grove Stewartfield East Kilbride
Received 5 May 20052 Avondale Gardens East Kilbride
Received 5 May 2005Peel Road Thorntonhall
Received 5 May 200537 Downiebrae Road Rutherglen
Received 4 May 200519 McCallum Avenue Rutherglen
Received 4 May 20051 Angus Avenue Hamilton
Received 4 May 2005239 Alberta Avenue Westwood East Kilbride
Received 4 May 20054 Rowan Walk Strathaven
Received 4 May 200526 Church Street Larkhall
Received 31 Jul 200834 Arran Gardens Hamilton
Received 23 May 2005Caird Street Hamilton
Received 13 May 200547 Carlowrie Avenue Blantyre
Received 19 May 200561 Muir Street Larkhall
Received 19 May 200516 Mason Street Larkhall
Received 9 May 20057 Staffa East Kilbride
Received 13 Nov 200818/22 Quarry Street Hamilton
Received 9 Dec 200823 Maxwell Drive East Kilbride G74 4HH
Received 22 Dec 2008Clydebridge Works Cambuslang
Received 29 Dec 2008Records 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage