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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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
Minerva House 5 Montague Close London Southwark SE1
Received 8 Jun 202648 Reverdy Road London Southwark SE1 5QD
Received 8 Jun 202626 Druce Road London Southwark SE21 7DW
Received 9 Jun 2026Tower Bridge Tower Bridge Road London Southwark
Received 9 Jun 2026Block C Former Mulberry Business Park Quebec Way London SE17
Received 9 Jun 202649-53 Surrey Row London SE1
Received 5 Jun 2026Land Adjacent 100 Glengall Road London Southwark SE15 6RR
Received 9 Jun 2026Telephone Box On The North Side Of Walworth Road And Elephant And Castle London Southwark SE1 6TE
Received 9 Jun 2026Telephone Box On The North Side Of Walworth Road And Elephant And Castle London Southwark SE1 6TE
Received 9 Jun 2026160 Tooley Street London Southwark SE1 2QH
Received 9 Jun 2026160 Blackfriars Road London Southwark SE1 8EZ
Received 9 Jun 2026Land Adjacent To 4 Victory Place London Southwark SE17 1PG
Received 9 Jun 20266 Victory Place London Southwark SE17 1PG
Received 9 Jun 2026St Luke's Court 124 - 126 Tooley Street London Southwark SE1 2TU
Received 9 Jun 2026Cargo Works Business Centre 1-2 Hatfields London Southwark SE1 9PG
Received 9 Jun 2026Aylesbury Plot 18 Within Land Bounded By Thurlow Street To The East Dawes Street To West Inville Road To The South And Plot 9 (A/B) Of The Aylesbury Regeneration To The North London SE17
Received 9 Jun 2026Unit 1 3 Deal Porters Way London Southwark SE16 2FR
Received 9 Jun 2026158 Woodwarde Road London Southwark SE22 8UR
Received 9 Jun 2026The Hop Exchange 24 Southwark Street London Southwark SE1 1TY
Received 9 Jun 20267 Medlar Street London Southwark SE5 0JU
Received 8 Jun 2026115 Chadwick Road London Southwark SE15 4PY
Received 10 Jun 2026Bell House Lodge 27 College Road London Southwark SE21 7BG
Received 9 Jun 2026Unit 1 And Unit 4 Canada Water Retail Park Surrey Quays Road London Southwark SE16 2XU
Received 10 Jun 2026113 Grove Park London Southwark SE5 8LE
Received 10 Jun 2026Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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