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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
West Lothian
Planning applications.
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for West Lothian. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates16,226Searchable applications
269Recorded as pending
90%Approval rate · 14,218 approved or refused records
1,372Refused applications
12,846 approved · 1,372 refused · 1,009 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 23 Dec 2008 to 13 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 20 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Local planning information
Council sources checked 14 Sept 2026Planning information Planning & Building StandardsLocal plan Local Development Plan (LDP 1)Pre-application advice Pre-Application EnquiryConservation areas Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Scheduled Monuments
Council contacts
- Planning enquiriescustomer.service@westlothian.gov.ukCouncil source
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Conservation areas and Article 4 directions
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.
More application records
- DecidedLIVE/0366/H/13
Installation of replacement windows and new velux window and formation of pitched roofs over dormer windows (grid ref. 299951 677056)
173B High Street, Linlithgow, EH49 7EN
Received 6 Jun 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0089/H/14
Extension to house (grid ref. 293984 665041)
50 Stewart Drive Whitburn Bathgate West Lothian EH47 0EW
Received 7 Jun 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0102/H/14
Installation of a dormer window (Grid Ref. 298127 669331)
23 Bughtknowes Drive, Bathgate, EH48 4DP
Received 12 Feb 2014 - UnknownLIVE/0311/FUL/12
Formation of access road and plot layout to serve 15 houses (grid ref 296493 669392)
Race Road, Bathgate
Received 1 May 2012 - DecidedLIVE/0454/H/13
Erection of a garage (grid ref. 298560 665853)
12 Murrayfield Terrace, Blackburn, EH47 7DE
Received 3 Jul 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0482/H/13
Extension to porch (grid ref. 298724 668047)
47 Kaim Crescent, Bathgate, EH48 1ER
Received 3 Jul 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0360/LBC/13
Listed building consent for the conversion of outbuilding to form a house with associated parking and alterations to roof (grid ref. 305969 672275)
The Steading, St Nicholas' Church, Manse Park, Uphall, EH52 6JP
Received 28 May 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0388/EIA/13
EIA screening opinion for the erection of a 78m high (to blade tip) wind turbine (grid ref. 290433 668429)
Eastcraigs, Blackridge
Received 28 May 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0346/FUL/13
Temporary open storage of minerals ( grid ref. 300610 663839 )
Land Adjacent To Freeport Village, Westwood, West Calder, EH55 8PW
Received 15 May 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0722/FUL/13
Conversion of steadings to form 3 houses and erection of 34 houses with associated garages, access roads, parking and landscaping (as amendment to planning permission ref. 0035/FUL/13) (Grid Ref. 307837 674930)
Glendevon Farm, Winchburgh
Received 29 Oct 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0374/FUL/13
Installation of pitched roof over existing flat roof (grid ref. 305937 669147)
Firth Road, Houstoun Industrial Estate, Livingston, EH54 5DJ
Received 7 Jun 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0354/A/13
Erection of various non illuminated signage (grid ref. 303155 665518)
Busy Bees Day Nursery, Alba Campus, Livingston, EH54 7EG
Received 31 May 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0235/FUL/13
Change of use from commercial to form a house, extension with decking above, erection of a car port and erection of a boundary fence (grid ref. 289330 667090)
35 Main Street, Blackridge, EH48 3SA
Received 11 Apr 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0240/FUL/13
Part change of use to Storage and Distribution (Class 6) (grid ref. 311135 667825)
7 Humbie Holdings, Kirknewton, EH27 8DS
Received 9 Apr 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0274/LBC/13
Listed Building Consent for alterations to building ( grid ref 294855 665022 )
Brucefield Church, 54 East Main Street, Whitburn, EH47 0RD
Received 17 Apr 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0650/FUL/13
Change of use to form childrens nursery (class 10), extension to building and formation of a covered outdoor play area (Grid Ref. 294554 665316).
Almondbank, Armadale Road, Whitburn, EH47 0EX
Received 17 Sept 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0402/H/13
Two storey extension to house (grid ref. 302289 669014)
48 Pinewood Park, Deans, Livingston, EH54 8NN
Received 30 May 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0253/H/13
Two storey extension to house (grid ref. 299043 668087)
13 Inch Crescent, Bathgate, EH48 1EU
Received 4 Apr 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0237/FUL/13
Demolition of house and erection of new house (grid ref. 294239 671783)
South Logiebrae Farm, Westfield, EH48 3DG
Received 3 Apr 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0441/H/13
Extension to house (Grid Ref 307525 672324)
41 Kirkhill Road, Broxburn, EH52 6HT
Received 3 Jul 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0335/FUL/13
Erection of a 74sqm extension to office building and installation of 6m high floodlighting columns to yard (grid ref. 296853 664949)
Redhill Industrial Estate, East Whitburn
Received 10 May 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0636/FUL/12
Change of use from Registrars office (class 2) to form a house (grid ref. 297713 668762)
76 Mid Street, Bathgate, EH48 1QD
Received 31 Aug 2012 - DecidedLIVE/0411/FUL/13
Erection of a 288 sqm maintenance shed with associated parking and landscaping (in retrospect) (grid ref. 311692 668562)
Elmbank, Wilkieston, EH27 8NT
Received 30 May 2013 - DecidedLIVE/0720/FUL/14
Erection of a house with garage (grid ref. 299977 661038)
Plot 14, West Mains Farm, West Calder, EH55 8LD
Received 8 Oct 2014
Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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What these statistics cover
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for West Lothian, 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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