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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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Counting House 53 Tooley Street London Southwark SE1 2QN
Received 30 Jun 202626 Limesford Road London Southwark SE15 3BX
Received 30 Jun 2026South Dock Marina St Georges Wharf Rope Street London Southwark SE16
Received 30 Jun 202610 - 18 Union Street London Southwark SE1 1SZ
Received 30 Jun 2026The Counting House 53 Tooley Street London Southwark SE1 2QN
Received 30 Jun 202627 Holly Grove London Southwark SE15 5DF
Received 30 Jun 2026257-283 Ilderton Road London Southwark SE15 1NS
Received 1 Jul 2026Brightlands 2 Gallery Road London Southwark SE21 7AB
Received 1 Jul 2026Block F, The Biscuit Factory 100 Clements Road Southwark London SE16 4DG
Received 1 Jul 202621 Park Street London Southwark SE1 9EQ
Received 1 Jul 2026Mill Pond College Road London Southwark SE21
Received 1 Jul 2026Court Lane Gardens London Southwark SE21
Received 1 Jul 2026Chatelain House 182 - 202 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 1RW
Received 1 Jul 202630 Elsie Road London Southwark SE22 8DX
Received 1 Jul 2026Land At Including Edward Edwards House And The Prince William Pub, Suthring House 216-220 Blackfriars Road North Of Nicholson Street London SE1
Received 1 Jul 20269 And 11 Gowlett Road London Southwark SE15 4HX
Received 1 Jul 20265-9 Rockingham Street And 2-4 Tiverton Street London SE1 6PD
Received 29 Jun 20266 Ethnard Road London Southwark SE15 1RU
Received 30 Jun 202624A Tarbert Road London Southwark SE22 8QB
Received 2 Jul 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 1 Jul 2026105 Bellenden Road London Southwark SE15 4QY
Received 2 Jul 2026Marks Court 5 Griggs Place London Southwark SE1 3AT
Received 2 Jul 2026The Hop Exchange 24 Southwark Street London Southwark SE1 1TY
Received 2 Jul 2026Rich Industrial Estate Crimscott Street And Willow Walk London Southwark SE1 5TE
Received 2 Jul 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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