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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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
79-161 Ilderton Road London Southwark SE16 3JZ
Received 5 Aug 202679-161 Ilderton Road London Southwark SE16 3JZ
Received 5 Aug 202679 -161 Ilderton Road London Southwark SE16 3JZ
Received 5 Aug 202679-161 Ilderton Road London Southwark SE16 3JZ
Received 5 Aug 202679-161 Ilderton Road London Southwark SE16 3JZ
Received 5 Aug 20261 Alleyn Crescent London Southwark SE21 8BN
Received 5 Aug 2026Court Lane Gardens London Southwark
Received 5 Aug 20268 Half Moon Lane London Southwark SE24 9HU
Received 5 Aug 2026Barnwell House St Giles Road London Southwark SE5 7RP
Received 5 Aug 2026Flat 17-19 Barnwell House St Giles Road London Southwark SE5 7RP
Received 5 Aug 2026Flat 20-22 Barnwell House St Giles Road London Southwark SE5 7RP
Received 5 Aug 202640 Therapia Road London Southwark SE22 0SE
Received 5 Aug 202682 Melbourne Grove London Southwark SE22 8QY
Received 6 Aug 2026Dulwich Hamlet Football Club Edgar Kail Way London Southwark SE22 8BD
Received 6 Aug 2026Land Off Potters Fields Potters Fields Park London SE1 2SG
Received 6 Aug 2026100 Melbourne Grove London Southwark SE22 8QY
Received 6 Aug 202695 Dulwich Village London Southwark SE21 7BJ
Received 6 Aug 2026Land At Southampton Way And Peckham Grove London Southwark SE5
Received 3 Aug 2026Friars Close Bear Lane London Southwark SE1
Received 5 Aug 2026Friars Close Bear Lane London Southwark
Received 5 Aug 2026Bianca Warehouse 43 Glengall Road And 1 Bianca Road London SE15 6SJ
Received 6 Aug 2026Land Known As Devonshire Place 747-759 And 765-775 Old Kent Road And Land At Devonshire Grove London SE15 1NZ
Received 29 Jul 2026273 Camberwell New Road London Southwark SE5 0TF
Received 6 Aug 202679-161 Ilderton Road London Southwark SE16 3JZ
Received 6 Aug 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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