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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.
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West Lothian planning applications
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of West Lothian. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official West Lothian website
Collected application statistics
Collected records · All available dates31,434Searchable applications
270Recorded as pending
91%Approval rate · 28,667 approved or refused records
2,514Refused applications
26,153 approved · 2,514 refused · 1,674 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 1 Apr 1992 to 23 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 31 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Conservation areas10 mapped area records
Article 4 direction areasBoundary dataset not connected
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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/0301/H/03
Alterations and extension to house and erection of a timber garage
- Tartraven Cottage, Dechmont
Received 19 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0299/FUL/03
Erection of a house with garage
15 Watt Avenue Bathville Armadale Bathgate West Lothian EH48 2LB
Received 19 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0347/FUL/03
Erection of a 300sqm storage building
- Burnhouse Industrial Estate, Whitburn
Received 19 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0311/H/03
Erection of a garage
54 Ballantyne Place Eliburn Livingston West Lothian EH54 6TH
Received 19 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0479/FUL/03
Erection of a temporary 70sqm office building
36 Grange Road, Houstoun Industrial Estate, Livingston
Received 19 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0292/H/03
Extension to house
25 Balmoral Gardens Bellsquarry Livingston West Lothian EH54 9EX
Received 18 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0293/FUL/03
Erection of a house
12 Millbank Place, Uphall
Received 18 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0461/H/03
Extension to house
28 Hawthorn Bank, Seafield
Received 30 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0525/FUL/03
Reinstatement of a storage building to a house
10 West End, West Calder
Received 30 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0469/H/03
Conversion of loft to form additional living accommodation
70 Glasgow Road, Bathgate
Received 30 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/1300/FUL/02
Installation of automatic teller machine (ATM) and extension to railings
97-99 West Main Street, Armadale
Received 20 Dec 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0900/FUL/02
Erection of a 50cu.m. service reservoir building for water supply purposes
- A70, Kirknewton
Received 23 Aug 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0889/FUL/02
Variation of conditions 19 & 20 of planning permission 0996/98 relating to an alteration of time scale for the provision of play area and kick pitch until February 2003
- Blyth Road, Broxburn
Received 23 Aug 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0902/H/02
Erection of a new pitched roof over an existing flat roof
21 Howley Avenue, Howden, Livingston
Received 23 Aug 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0898/P/02
Outline planning permission for a 0.075 ha retail/office development
- Whitburn Road, Bathgate
Received 23 Aug 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0899/FUL/02
Erection of 4 flats and associated works
2 Daisyhill Road, Blackburn
Received 23 Aug 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0950/FUL/02
Change of use from landscaped areas to form licensed terrace areas
The Granary, Almondvale Boulevard, Almondvale, Livingston
Received 23 Aug 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0895/FUL/02
Change of use from public open space to private garden ground and erection of a 1.8m high boundary fence
16 Templar Rise, Dedridge, Livingston
Received 22 Aug 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0891/FUL/02
Part change of use from video rental store to tanning salon
Unit F Regent Centre, Linlithgow
Received 30 Jul 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0823/H/02
Erection of a 1.8m high boundary fence
31 Old Golf Course Road, Armadale
Received 30 Jul 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0825/H/02
Erection of a conservatory
53 Mossbank, Livingston
Received 30 Jul 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0824/H/02
Conservatory extension to house
34 Doon Walk, Livingston
Received 30 Jul 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0878/H/02
Erection of an outbuilding
6 Raw Holdings, East Calder
Received 30 Jul 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0072/FUL/03
Demolition of former nursery school and erection of a 264sqm shop (Class 1)
- Rowan Street, Blackburn
Received 16 Dec 2002
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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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