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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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
48 Upland Road London Southwark SE22 0DA
Received 5 Jun 202678 Underhill Road London Southwark SE22 0QT
Received 5 Jun 2026147 Kimberley Avenue London Southwark SE15 3XD
Received 5 Jun 202628 Silvester Road London Southwark SE22 9PD
Received 5 Jun 2026Unit 4 Bricklayers Arms Mandela Way London Southwark SE1 5SS
Received 5 Jun 2026128 Turney Road London Southwark SE21 7JJ
Received 5 Jun 2026Camberwell Police Station 9 Wren Road London Southwark SE5 8QP
Received 5 Jun 2026Camberwell Police Station 9 Wren Road London Southwark SE5 8QP
Received 5 Jun 2026170 Lynton Road London Southwark SE1 5RB
Received 5 Jun 2026Coburg House 63-67 Newington Causeway London Southwark SE1 6LS
Received 5 Jun 2026Coburg House 63 - 67 Newington Causeway London Southwark SE1 6LS
Received 5 Jun 2026Coburg House 63-67 Newington Causeway London Southwark SE1 6LS
Received 5 Jun 202629 Abercorn Way London Southwark SE1 5HL
Received 5 Jun 202696 Acanthus Drive London Southwark SE1 5HJ
Received 5 Jun 2026Walworth Bus Garage Camberwell New Road London Southwark SE5 0TF
Received 5 Jun 202612 Alma Grove London Southwark SE1 5PY
Received 5 Jun 2026252 Barry Road London Southwark SE22 0JS
Received 5 Jun 202684 Lyndhurst Way London Southwark SE15 5AP
Received 8 Jun 202684 Lyndhurst Way London Southwark SE15 5AP
Received 8 Jun 202650 Astbury Road London Southwark SE15 2NJ
Received 8 Jun 2026189 Camberwell Grove London Southwark SE5 8JU
Received 8 Jun 202627 - 29 Borough High Street Southwark SE1 1LY
Received 8 Jun 202697 - 99 Borough High Street Southwark SE1 1NL
Received 8 Jun 2026Guinness Court Snowsfields London Southwark SE1 3SX
Received 8 Jun 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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