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
31,311 approved · 1,292 refused · 2,303 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
12 Dechmont Place Cambuslang
Received 11 Feb 200928 Kirkton Street Carluke ML8 4AB
Received 15 Dec 2008Footpath At Mill Street Rutherglen
Received 11 Feb 200954 Upper Bourtree Drive Burnside
Received 8 Jan 2009Bizzyberry Farm Biggar ML12 6RE
Received 15 Dec 200873 Milrig Road Rutherglen
Received 2 Feb 2009233 Hamilton Road Cambuslang
Received 16 Feb 200915 Mary Slessor Wynd Rutherglen
Received 10 Feb 20092 Park Place Thorntonhall G74 5AU
Received 13 Feb 20091 Turnbull Way Strathaven
Received 3 Feb 200912 Muirkirk Gardens Strathaven ML10 6FS
Received 24 Dec 200817 Old Coach Road East Kilbride G74 4DS
Received 9 Feb 2009Beckford Primary School Auchinraith Avenue Hamilton
Received 13 Feb 200948 Samson Crescent Carluke ML8 4RP
Received 27 Nov 2008Strathaven Telephone Exchange Castle Street Strathaven
Received 13 Feb 2009Manse Road Forth ML11 8AN
Received 27 Nov 2008Unit 2 4-10 High Street Carluke
Received 9 Jan 200951 Aberdour Court Blantyre
Received 10 Dec 2008Junction Of Hallside Boulevard And Elder Crescent Cambuslang
Received 3 Feb 200941 Beechwood Avenue Hamilton
Received 30 Jul 2008Blantyre Miners Welfare Club Calder Street Blantyre
Received 7 Jan 2009Land Of High Garrion Farm Lanark Road Larkhall
Received 10 Dec 20085 Wellknowe Avenue Thorntonhall G74 5AR
Received 12 Feb 200921 Westfarm Crescent Cambuslang
Received 16 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.
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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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