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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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
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.
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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.
Southwark Town Hall Peckham Road London Southwark SE5 8UB
Received 26 May 202654 Hopton Street London Southwark SE1 9JH
Received 26 May 2026Elephant And Castle Shopping Centre, 26, 28, 30 And 32 New Kent Road And Arches 6 And 7 Elephant Road And London College Of Communications Site, Elephant And Castle London SE1
Received 26 May 2026145 Court Lane London Southwark SE21 7EE
Received 26 May 2026Red Lion Court 46-48 Park Street London Southwark SE1 9EQ
Received 26 May 2026Railway Arch 101 Rockingham Street London Southwark SE1 6PD
Received 27 May 2026145 Court Lane London Southwark SE21 7EE
Received 26 May 2026145 Court Lane London Southwark SE21 7EE
Received 26 May 20264 Aycliffe House Portland Street London Southwark SE17 2PE
Received 27 May 2026298 Old Kent Road London Southwark SE1 5UE
Received 27 May 2026Red Lion Court 46-48 Park Street London Southwark SE1 9EQ
Received 26 May 2026Coburg House 63 - 67 Newington Causeway London Southwark SE1 6LS
Received 26 May 2026Coburg House 63 - 67 Newington Causeway London Southwark SE1 6LS
Received 26 May 2026Coburg House 63 - 67 Newington Causeway London Southwark SE1 6LS
Received 26 May 2026Dulwich College Dulwich Common London Southwark SE21 7LD
Received 26 May 202661 Tyrrell Road London Southwark SE22 9NE
Received 27 May 2026Tower Bridge Business Complex 100 Clements Road Aka Biscuit Factory And Bermondsey Campus Site Keetons Road London SE16 4DG
Received 26 May 2026Tower Bridge Business Complex 100 Clements Road Aka Biscuit Factory And Bermondsey Campus Site Keetons Road London SE16 4DG
Received 26 May 2026Tower Bridge Business Complex 100 Clements Road Aka Biscuit Factory And Bermondsey Campus Site Keetons Road London SE16 4DG
Received 26 May 2026Unit 1 And Unit 4 Canada Water Retail Park Surrey Quays Road London Southwark SE16 2XU
Received 27 May 2026Camberwell Police Station 22A Camberwell Church Street London Southwark SE5 8QU
Received 27 May 2026206 Crystal Palace Road London Southwark SE22 9EL
Received 27 May 202611 Hambledon Place London Southwark SE21 7EY
Received 27 May 202612 Hambledon Place London Southwark SE21 7EY
Received 27 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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