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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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Weald Close London Southwark SE16 3ET
Received 22 May 2026Telephone Kiosk Outside 376 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2NG
Received 22 May 2026Telephone Kiosk Outside 376 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 2NG
Received 22 May 2026Site Ck0224 Dog Kennel Hill London Southwark SE22 BBQ
Received 22 May 2026Site Ck0224 Dog Kennel Hill London Southwark SE22 BBQ
Received 22 May 2026Grove Tavern 520 Lordship Lane London Southwark SE22 8LF
Received 22 May 2026Grove Tavern 520 Lordship Lane London Southwark SE22 8LF
Received 22 May 2026222 Saint & Sofia Ltd Tower Bridge Road London Southwark SE1 2UP
Received 22 May 2026222 Saint & Sofia Ltd Tower Bridge Road London Southwark SE1 2UP
Received 22 May 202618 Dekker Road London Southwark SE21 7DL
Received 22 May 202618 Dekker Road London Southwark SE21 7DL
Received 22 May 202615 Canon Beck Road London Southwark SE16 7DJ
Received 22 May 2026159 Herne Hill London Southwark SE24 9LR
Received 22 May 202628 Stradella Road London Southwark SE24 9HA
Received 22 May 2026Arch 616W Biscuit Factory Business Complex Clements Road London Southwark SE16 4DG
Received 22 May 202669 Henslowe Road London Southwark SE22 0AS
Received 26 May 202622 Oxenford Street London Southwark SE15 4DE
Received 26 May 20262 Pelham Close London Southwark SE5 8LW
Received 26 May 202618 Cadiz Street London Southwark SE17 2TJ
Received 26 May 2026Former Blackfriars Crown Court, 1 Pocock Street London SE1 0BT
Received 26 May 2026Heygate Estate And Surrounding Land Bound By New Kent Road To The North, Rodney Place And Rodney Road To The East, Wansey Street To The South And Walworth Road And Elephant Road To The West London SE17
Received 21 May 2026Land Known As Devonshire Place 747-759 And 765-775 Old Kent Road And Land At Devonshire Grove London SE15 1NZ
Received 22 May 2026Flat 16 157-163 Queens Road London Southwark SE15 2ND
Received 26 May 202621 Pilgrims Cloisters 116 Sedgmoor Place London Southwark SE5 7RQ
Received 26 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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