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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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Land Off Potters Fields Potters Fields Park London SE1 2SG
Received 6 Aug 2026Land Off Potters Fields Potters Fields Park London SE1 2SG
Received 6 Aug 2026Land Off Potters Fields Potters Fields Park London SE1 2SG
Received 6 Aug 2026Railway Arch 238, 240, 241, 242 Empress Street London Southwark SE17 3HJ
Received 10 Aug 202679-161 Ilderton Road London Southwark SE16 3JZ
Received 11 Aug 2026221 New Kent Road London Southwark SE1 4AG
Received 11 Aug 2026Southwark Underground Station The Cut London Southwark
Received 11 Aug 202613 Ablett Street London Southwark SE16 3BL
Received 11 Aug 2026St James The Great Church Elm Grove London Southwark SE15 5DD
Received 11 Aug 2026221 New Kent Road London Southwark SE1 4AG
Received 11 Aug 202640 Strathnairn Street London Southwark SE1 5BL
Received 12 Aug 202622 Forest Hill Road London Southwark SE22 0RR
Received 12 Aug 2026Rotherhithe Gas Holder Site Salter Road London Southwark SE16 6DU
Received 12 Aug 2026Rotherhithe Gas Holder Site Salter Road London Southwark SE16 6DU
Received 12 Aug 2026New City Court 20 St Thomas Street London Southwark SE1 9RS
Received 12 Aug 2026Hays Galleria Tooley Street London Southwark SE1 2HD
Received 12 Aug 2026Bankside Yards, Formerly Sampson House 64 Hopton Street & Ludgate House 245 Blackfriars Road London SE1
Received 12 Aug 202639 Sansom Street London Southwark SE5 7RD
Received 12 Aug 202627 Rye Hill Park London Southwark SE15 3JN
Received 12 Aug 2026First Floor Flat 176 - 178 Old Kent Road London Southwark SE1 5TY
Received 12 Aug 2026Peckham Rye Railway Station Station Way And 1-4 Holly Grove London Southwark SE15 4RX
Received 12 Aug 202620 Fellbrigg Road London Southwark SE22 9HH
Received 12 Aug 2026Land Adjacent To 201 Tooley Street And 185 Tower Bridge Road London Southwark SE1 2UF
Received 12 Aug 2026Land Adjacent To 201 Tooley Street And 185 Tower Bridge Road London Southwark SE1 2UF
Received 12 Aug 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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