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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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
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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.
51 College Road London Southwark SE21 7LF
Received 28 Aug 2026The Wilfred Sheldon Centre St Giles Hospital St Giles Road London Southwark SE5 7RN
Received 1 Sept 202634 Grange Walk London Southwark SE1 3DY
Received 1 Sept 202686 And 87 St Aidans Road London Southwark SE22 0RW
Received 1 Sept 202690 Shenley Road London Southwark SE5 8NQ
Received 1 Sept 2026Potters Fields Park Potters Fields London Southwark SE1
Received 1 Sept 2026Goose Green Primary School Tintagel Crescent London Southwark SE22 8HG
Received 1 Sept 2026Naismith House 175 Tower Bridge Road London Southwark SE1 2AH
Received 1 Sept 202686 And 87 St Aidans Road London Southwark SE22 0RW
Received 1 Sept 202686 And 87 St Aidans Road London Southwark SE22 0RW
Received 1 Sept 202686 And 87 St Aidans Road London Southwark SE22 0RW
Received 1 Sept 2026Rich Industrial Estate Crimscott Street And Willow Walk London Southwark SE1 5TE
Received 1 Sept 2026Tower Bridge Business Complex 100 Clements Road Aka Biscuit Factory And Bermondsey Campus Site Keetons Road London SE16 4DG
Received 1 Sept 202686 And 87 St Aidans Road London Southwark SE22 0RW
Received 1 Sept 2026Rich Industrial Estate Crimscott Street And Willow Walk London Southwark SE1 5TE
Received 1 Sept 202686 And 87 St Aidans Road London Southwark SE22 0RW
Received 1 Sept 202686 And 87 St Aidans Road London Southwark SE22 0RW
Received 1 Sept 202686 And 87 St Aidans Road London Southwark SE22 0RW
Received 1 Sept 2026Flat A 38 Whateley Road London Southwark SE22 9DD
Received 1 Sept 2026Tower Bridge Business Complex 100 Clements Road Aka Biscuit Factory And Bermondsey Campus Site Keetons Road London SE16 4DG
Received 1 Sept 2026Tower Bridge Business Complex 100 Clements Road Aka Biscuit Factory And Bermondsey Campus Site Keetons Road London SE16 4DG
Received 1 Sept 2026Tower Bridge Business Complex 100 Clements Road Aka Biscuit Factory And Bermondsey Campus Site Keetons Road London SE16 4DG
Received 1 Sept 2026350 Ivydale Road London Southwark SE15 3DG
Received 1 Sept 20263 Royal George Mews London Southwark SE5 8FD
Received 2 Sept 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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