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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.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for London Borough of Southwark. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 2 May 1986 to 25 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
83 Crofton Road London Southwark SE5 8LZ
Received 7 May 202652 Maxted Road London Southwark SE15 4LF
Received 7 May 2026Seavington House Champion Hill London Southwark SE5 8DN
Received 7 May 202670 Linnell Road London Southwark SE5 8NJ
Received 7 May 2026St Francis R C Primary School Friary Road London Southwark SE15 1RQ
Received 7 May 2026First Floor Flat 43 Ulverscroft Road London Southwark SE22 9HF
Received 8 May 202625 East Dulwich Grove London Southwark SE22 8PW
Received 8 May 2026Tower Bridge Tower Bridge Road London Southwark SE1 2UP
Received 8 May 2026Flat A 146 Queens Road London Southwark SE15 2HP
Received 8 May 202636 Denmark Hill London Southwark SE5 8RZ
Received 8 May 2026Flat A 38 Whateley Road London Southwark SE22 9DD
Received 8 May 2026Bankside Yards (BY1) 245 Blackfriars Road London SE1
Received 11 May 202662 Marmora Road London Southwark SE22 0RY
Received 11 May 2026Flat A 73 Melbourne Grove London Southwark SE22 8RJ
Received 11 May 2026Cardamom Building 31 Shad Thames London Southwark SE1 2YR
Received 11 May 202626 Elfindale Road London Southwark SE24 9NW
Received 11 May 2026Camberwell School Of Arts And Crafts Wilson Road London Southwark SE5 8LU
Received 11 May 202618 Gladstone Street London Southwark SE1 6EY
Received 11 May 202618 Gladstone Street London Southwark SE1 6EY
Received 11 May 2026158 Woodwarde Road London Southwark SE22 8UR
Received 12 May 20266 Ulverscroft Road London Southwark SE22 9HG
Received 12 May 2026Former Blackfriars Crown Court, 1 Pocock Street London SE1 0BT
Received 12 May 2026Rich Industrial Estate Crimscott Street And Willow Walk London Southwark SE1 5TE
Received 12 May 2026Land Known As Devonshire Place 747-759 And 765-775 Old Kent Road And Land At Devonshire Grove London SE15 1NZ
Received 12 May 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart 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.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for London Borough of Southwark, 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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