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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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Comber Grove Junior And Infant School Comber Grove London Southwark SE5 0LQ
Received 9 Jul 202624 Crimscott Street London Southwark SE1 5TE
Received 8 Jul 202624 Crimscott Street London Southwark SE1 5TE
Received 8 Jul 2026Braganza Street Workshop 42 Braganza Street And Land Adjacent To 26 Braganza Street London SE17 3RJ
Received 10 Jul 2026Southwark Resource Centre 10 Bradenham Close London Southwark SE17 2QB
Received 10 Jul 2026Gallery Court 4 - 10 Hankey Place London Southwark
Received 10 Jul 2026Unit 1A Vanguard Court Rear Of 36 To 38 Peckham Road London Southwark SE5 8QT
Received 10 Jul 202618 Village Way London Southwark SE21 7AN
Received 10 Jul 2026Cycle Hire Docking Station Footway Adjacent 80 Tooley Street London Southwark SE1
Received 10 Jul 2026Progress House 5 Mandela Way London Southwark
Received 10 Jul 2026Block A 27 Green Walk London Southwark SE1 4TT
Received 10 Jul 20265A Underhill Road London Southwark SE22 0BT
Received 13 Jul 20262 Green Walk London Southwark SE1 4TU
Received 13 Jul 20269 And 11 Gowlett Road London Southwark
Received 13 Jul 2026Dulwich College Preparatory School Nursery 8 Gallery Road London Southwark SE21 7AB
Received 13 Jul 2026Elm Lawn Dulwich Common London Southwark SE21 7EW
Received 13 Jul 2026Flat B11, Lloyds Wharf Mill Street London SE1 2BD
Received 13 Jul 2026Rotherhithe Gas Holder Site Salter Road London Southwark SE16 6DU
Received 13 Jul 2026South London Scout Centre Grange Lane London Southwark SE21 7LH
Received 13 Jul 2026Plot H4 Within Land Bounded By New Kent Road To The North Plot H5 Of The Elephant Park Masterplan To The East The Elephant Park To The South And Elephant One To The West.
Received 13 Jul 20262 Timber Pond Road London Southwark SE16 6AG
Received 13 Jul 2026Chatelain House 182-202 Walworth Road London Southwark SE17 1RW
Received 10 Jul 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 13 Jul 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 13 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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