Source: East Lothian Council·Updated daily·Last checked 7 Oct 2026
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Plota holds 1,054 current planning applications from East Lothian Council, received since 7 May 2025, 243 of them in the last 90 days. Behind them, the Plota archive holds 11,626 earlier applications from East Lothian Council, 2016 to 2025, searchable by location and keyword. Current records are collected from the council's public register at pa.eastlothian.gov.uk and checked every day; the last check was on 7 Oct 2026. Each record carries the council's reference, address, proposal, dates, status and decision, with a map location and Plota's classification by type and procedure added. The council's own record is the authoritative version; every entry here links to it.
Latest application from East Lothian: 2 Oct 2026. We check the council's portal daily.