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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
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 dates31,663Searchable applications
270Recorded as pending
91%Approval rate · 28,883 approved or refused records
2,537Refused applications
26,346 approved · 2,537 refused · 1,684 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 6 Jan 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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/0220/FUL/03
Conversion and alterations to 'bakehouse' to form a house
Rear Of 77 High Street, Linlithgow
Received 3 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0463/H/03
Extension to house
6 Main Street, Newton
Received 30 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0462/H/03
Erection of a porch
45 Springfield Road, Linlithgow
Received 30 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0460/FUL/03
Erection of 8 houses with garages and adjustment to visitor parking
Plot 1 Former Ibstock Brickworks, Armadale
Received 30 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0503/FUL/03
Change of use from agricultural land to accommodate laser clay pigeon shooting facility
Kingsfield Golf Driving Range Kingsfield, Linlithgow
Received 30 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0392/FUL/03
Erection of a 60 bedroom hotel with public house/restaurant and associated access, parking and landscaping
- Almondvale Crescent, Almondvale, Livingston
Received 8 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0394/H/03
Erection of a conservatory
47 Goldpark Place, Livingston
Received 8 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0398/H/03
Erection of a garage with study
113 Crofters Gate, East Whitburn
Received 8 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0848/FUL/02
Extension to house
34 Broompark View, East Calder
Received 2 Aug 2002 - DecidedLIVE/0432/H/03
Erection of a conservatory
102 Langton View, East Calder
Received 22 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0427/FUL/03
Importation of inert fill material for contouring and formation of new land form with subsequent landscaping and woodland planting: part use of agricultural for road haulage business: formation of screen bunds and erection of agricultural shed
Balgornie Farm -, Whitburn
Received 22 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0361/P/03
Outline planning permission for the erection of a house
Site Off Cannop Crescent, Adj. 'Redcroft', Stoneyburn
Received 28 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0487/FUL/03
Part change of use of video shop to include intallation of 3 no. sunbed tanning cubicles (Class 2)
Unit 104 Almondvale Avenue, Almondvale, Livingston
Received 28 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0334/H/03
Extension to house including garage
1 Longcroft Gardens, Linlithgow
Received 28 Mar 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0134/FUL/03
Removal of condition 15 from planning permission 0709/2002 which relates to the phasing of the development
- Lower Bathville, (Former Brickworks), Armadale
Received 5 Feb 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0028/H/03
Two storey extension to house
16 Riverside Court, Livingston
Received 9 Jan 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0032/LBC/03
Listed building consent for internal alterations to form passage and cold room
15 Bank Street, Mid Calder
Received 9 Jan 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0046/FUL/03
Erection of a house with garage, an agricultural shed and temporary siting of a residential caravan
Plot 13 Stoneheaps Crofts, Stoneyburn
Received 8 Jan 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0026/FUL/03
Change of use from office/retail to caf�/office/store
66 South Bridge Street, Bathgate
Received 8 Jan 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0025/P/03
Outline planning permission for the erection of a house
99 Muir Road, Bathgate
Received 8 Jan 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0386/H/03
Extension to house
7 Springfield Road, Linlithgow
Received 4 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0435/H/03
Extension to house
8 Ogilvie Way, Knightsridge, Livingston
Received 4 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0379/H/03
Two storey extension to house
2 Burnside Avenue, Polbeth
Received 4 Apr 2003 - DecidedLIVE/0378/H/03
Erection of a conservatory
21 Primrose Place, Livingston
Received 4 Apr 2003
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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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