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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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
192-194 Grange Road London Southwark SE1 3AA
Received 14 Jul 2026196-199 Grange Road London Southwark SE1 3AA
Received 14 Jul 202611A Chadwick Road London Southwark SE15 4RA
Received 14 Jul 20263 Carden Road London Southwark SE15 3UB
Received 14 Jul 202638 Carden Road London Southwark SE15 3UD
Received 14 Jul 202622-24 Southwark Bridge Road London Southwark SE1 9HB
Received 15 Jul 2026190 Choumert Road London Southwark SE15 4AB
Received 15 Jul 2026Railway Arch 285 Jewell Street London Southwark SE5 0BU
Received 15 Jul 202615 Sydenham Hill London Southwark SE26 6SH
Received 13 Jul 202615 Sydenham Hill London Southwark SE26 6SH
Received 13 Jul 202615 Sydenham Hill London Southwark SE26 6SH
Received 13 Jul 20265 Frank Dixon Way London Southwark SE21 7BB
Received 15 Jul 2026Tower Bridge Business Complex 100 Clements Road Aka Biscuit Factory And Bermondsey Campus Site Keetons Road London SE16 4DG
Received 15 Jul 2026Tower Bridge Business Complex 100 Clements Road Aka Biscuit Factory And Bermondsey Campus Site Keetons Road London SE16 4DG
Received 15 Jul 202645 Dulwich Wood Avenue London Southwark SE19 1HG
Received 15 Jul 2026The Park At Elephant Park Site Bounded By Phase MP3 To The North, Plot H7 To The South, Castle Square To The West London Southwark
Received 15 Jul 2026123 Grove Park London Southwark SE5 8LD
Received 15 Jul 2026New City Court 4-26 St Thomas Street London SE1 9RS
Received 15 Jul 2026Flat 1-3 10 Bacon Grove London Southwark SE1 5SN
Received 15 Jul 2026Communications Hub Outside Friars Bridge Court 41-45 Blackfriars Road London Southwark SE1 8NZ
Received 15 Jul 2026Communications Hub Outside Friars Bridge Court 41-45 Blackfriars Road London Southwark SE1 8NZ
Received 15 Jul 2026Advertising Right Outside 75 To 79 Southwark Street London Southwark
Received 15 Jul 2026Advertising Right Outside 75 To 79 Southwark Street London Southwark
Received 15 Jul 2026Metro Central Heights 119 Newington Causeway London Southwark SE1 6BN
Received 15 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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