Planning Policy

The planning policy team produce planning policies and guidance for Southwark Council. These are used to make decisions on planning applications. These decisions should be made in line with the development plan, which consists of

• The London plan
• The Southwark plan

Current consultations

We carry out public consultation on all of our policy documents. This usually consists of six weeks of informal and six weeks of formal consultation. See the links below for more details on all our  consultation documents

• Core strategy, preferred options will be consulted on from May to July 23 2009
• Peckham and Nunhead area action plan
• Canada Water area action plan, preferred options June to August 2009 
• Aylesbury area action plan
• Dulwich supplementary planning document, May 15 2009 to June 26 2009 

Southwark plan

The Southwark plan or unitary development plan sets out the framework for future development and land use in Southwark. The policies in the Southwark Plan are used by development control to make decisions on individual planning applications in Southwark. The Southwark plan was adopted in July 2007 and, along with the London plan, it makes up the current development plan for Southwark.

Local development framework

In 2004 the government introduced local development frameworks as a replacement for unitary development plans. Eventually the Southwark plan will be replaced by the local development framework. The local development framework is made up of a number of different documents. We have started to prepare several documents in our local development framework. No development plan documents have so far been adopted by the council.

Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD) and Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG)

SPDs and SPGs provide further information and guidance on policies in the development plan

• View all of Southwark's SPDs and SPGs 
  

Contact us

Planning policy
Tel: 020 7525 5471
Fax: 020 7084 0347 
planningpolicy@southwark.gov.uk
PO Box 64529
London SE1P 5LX