Understanding planning · 13 min read
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565 approved · 33 refused · 13 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
13 Beaulieu Close London Southwark SE5 8BA
Received 23 Sept 202610 Windsor Walk London Southwark SE5 8BB
Received 23 Sept 2026Boland House St Thomas Street London Southwark SE1 9RT
Received 23 Sept 202647 Camberwell Church Street London Southwark SE5 8TR
Received 23 Sept 2026Southwark Playhouse Theatre Company Limited 80 Newington Butts London Southwark SE11 4FL
Received 23 Sept 202645 Beauval Road London Southwark SE22 8UG
Received 23 Sept 2026Land Adjacent 4C Donkey Alley London Southwark SE22 0NY
Received 24 Sept 2026144 Hollydale Road London Southwark SE15 2TQ
Received 24 Sept 2026298 Old Kent Road London Southwark SE1 5UE
Received 24 Sept 202610 Winterbrook Road London Southwark SE24 9JA
Received 24 Sept 202617 Parkstone Road London Southwark SE15 4UQ
Received 24 Sept 202616-18 Peckham High Street London Southwark SE15 5DT
Received 24 Sept 2026Shopping Centre Site Elephant And Castle 26 28 30 And 32 New Kent Road Arches 6 And 7 Elephant Road And London College Of Communications Site London SE1
Received 24 Sept 2026144 Burbage Road London Southwark SE21 7AG
Received 24 Sept 20262A More London Riverside London Southwark SE1 2DB
Received 24 Sept 20262A More London Riverside London Southwark SE1 2DB
Received 24 Sept 202633 Leydon Close London Southwark SE16 5PF
Received 25 Sept 202610 Highshore Road London Southwark SE15 5AA
Received 25 Sept 2026Flat 8 58A Silvester Road London Southwark SE22 9PE
Received 25 Sept 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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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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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