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Southwark
Official links and figures for Southwark, in one place. Always check the official source before you act.
If someone’s life is in danger, call 999. For a power cut, call 105. This page lists official sources and figures. It does not say how safe or risky anywhere is.
Council pages
- Emergency planning Staying safe in an emergency
- Gritting and winter roads Gritting our roads
- Sandbags Not found yet. Check the council website.
- Where rest centres or emergency help are announced Hazards or events
Power cuts
Network operator (not your supplier):
- UK Power Networks (London)
Our log of the UK Power Networks live fault feed recorded 0 unplanned cuts here from 1 November 2026, 14:53 GMT to 1 November 2026, 16:36 GMT.
Ofgem’s figures for the whole licence area, April 2024 to March 2025, counting cuts of 3 minutes or longer:
- London (UK Power Networks): 11.2 interruptions per 100 customers and 10.5 minutes without power per customer (2023/24: 12.2 and 11.4)
Great Britain as a whole: 39.7 and 35.1. These are area averages, not figures for Southwark alone. About this dataset
Flooding
Environment Agency: 2 flood alert areas and 6 flood warning areas overlap Southwark. Waters named: River Thames.
Warning areas include: Tidal Thames at Camberwell; Tidal Thames at South Bermondsey; Tidal Thames at Walworth; Tidal Thames from Deptford Creek to Rotherhithe Station; Tidal Thames from London Bridge to Hungerford Bridge; Tidal Thames from Rotherhithe Station to London Bridge.
Flood warnings we have logged for these areas: 0 since 1 November 2026, 14:53 GMT.
Where the nearest A&E departments are
The nearest type 1 (major) A&E departments to the centre of each of the largest built-up areas, by straight-line distance (as the crow flies, not by road):
- Southwark: Denmark Hill Hospital (2.5 km); St Thomas Hospital (3.5 km); The Royal London Hospital (3.8 km).
We have not found an open official list of urgent treatment centres and minor injury units for England, so they are not shown here. Find urgent and emergency care services (NHS website).
Never Caught Out is not affiliated with the NHS. For medical help that is not an emergency, contact NHS 111. About this dataset
Water supply
Water company for this area:
- Thames Water · Network latest
Water resource zones covering Southwark: London (Thames Water). What a water resource zone is
Phone and broadband coverage
Ofcom’s predictions of normal coverage in Southwark, January 2026. They are not live outages and not a guarantee for any address.
- Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 100%; from none: 0%.
- Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 100%; from none: 0%.
- Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 100%; from none: 0%.
- Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 90%.
- Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 0 (0%).
Check an address on Ofcom’s coverage checker · Phones when the network is down: how to reach 999 · Your right to request decent broadband (Ofcom) · About this dataset
Coast
No open-sea coastline.
Local radio
Weather warnings
UK-wide Met Office warnings in our log: 0 since 1 November 2026, 14:53 GMT.
Emergency planning partnership
London Resilience Partnership: its community risk register lists the emergencies planned for here.
Census 2021: planning prompts
- Households with no car or van: 60.3%
- Residents aged 65 or over: 8.3%
- Households of one person aged 66 or over: 7.3%
Largest built-up areas
Neighbouring councils
Bromley, City of London, Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham, Tower Hamlets, Westminster
Useful wherever you live
- Power cut: call 105 free. What to do in a power cut · Priority Services Register · Compensation calculator
- Check flooding by postcode and sign up for free warnings (GOV.UK)
- What to do in a flood
- Current Met Office warnings · What the colours mean
- Your water bill names your water company, or find it by postcode (Water UK).
- A battery or wind-up radio keeps working in a power cut.
- Census prompts: who would fetch food or medicines for you or a neighbour on icy or flooded roads, and who would you check on in a power cut? Ask your pharmacist about repeat prescriptions before bad weather.
How these figures were gathered
- Council links were opened on 1 November 2026 and each page mentioned its topic. A person has not yet checked them.
- Power cut counts are incidents only, not homes affected or how long cuts lasted.
- Our flood warning log began on 1 November 2026, so it is not a flood history.
- A&E distances are straight lines from the centre point ONS gives for each built-up area to the centre of the hospital’s postcode. Travel distances and times will be longer.
- Water resource zones are listed when at least 1% of the council’s area falls inside them. The Environment Agency says the zone map is for mapping only, not for checking a property.
- Phone and broadband figures are Ofcom’s council-level predictions for January 2026. Mobile coverage uses Ofcom’s signal thresholds; an operator’s network counts if its predicted signal meets them.
- Coastline is our measurement: the part of the ONS boundary (clipped to mean high water) not shared with another council, rounded. Tidal river edges are not counted as coast.
- Census figures are planning prompts, not risk scores. The household figure uses 66 and over, as the census tables do.
- Built-up areas are the largest by land area, up to four, from ONS Built-up Areas 2022. Flood areas listed under a town are those whose official name includes it; a missing area does not mean a street will not flood.
Publishing check
Before a local page is shown to search engines it has to pass every rule below on 14 nights in a row. Until then it stays online for anyone who follows a link, but search engines are asked not to list it. Last run: 1 November 2026, 16:38 GMT. Result: Not yet.
| Rule | Needed | This page | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fields filled | 12 or more of 18 | 15 of 18 | Pass |
| Facts that set this page apart | 6 or more | 6 (fields 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15) | Pass |
| Official council links | 3 or more, each opened and checked by a person | 3 different links opened automatically; 0 checked by a person yet | Not yet: waiting for a person to check |
| Length of our own records | 90 days or more for power cuts, floods or weather | 0 days (logging began 1 Nov 2026) | Not yet |
| Text not too similar to other pages | Similarity below 0.5 | Highest 0.39 (median 0.33) | Pass |
| Figures not identical to another page | No identical set | Unique | Pass |
| Unusual figures checked | Any figure far outside the national range checked by a person | Not checked yet: we do not have national figures to compare against | Not checked yet |
| Stable over time | Passes every rule on 14 nights in a row | 0 of 14 nights | Not yet |
Official sources we used
- RIIO-2 Electricity Distribution annual report 2024 to 2025: supplementary data file (Open Government Licence) (Ofgem)
- 105: the power cut helpline (Energy Networks Association)
- UK Power Networks: power cuts (UK Power Networks)
- Real-time flood-monitoring API: flood areas (Environment Agency)
- Check for flooding (GOV.UK / Environment Agency)
- List of A&E type 1 departments (April 2026) (NHS England)
- Postcode locations (OS OpenData licence; contains Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail and National Statistics data) (postcodes.io)
- Thames Water: Network latest (Thames Water)
- Water Resource Zones (Open Government Licence; contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database rights; some information © water companies) (Environment Agency)
- Connected Nations update: Spring 2026, mobile and fixed coverage data (Open Government Licence) (Ofcom)
- Find your water company (regions served) (CCW (Consumer Council for Water))
- BBC Radio London: listen live (BBC Sounds)
- UK weather warnings (Met Office)
- London Resilience Partnership: community risk register (London Resilience Partnership)
- Local resilience forums: contact details (Cabinet Office)
- Census 2021 TS045: Car or van availability (ONS via Nomis)
- Census 2021 TS007A: Age by five-year age bands (ONS via Nomis)
- Census 2021 TS003: Household composition (ONS via Nomis)
- Built-up Areas (December 2022) GB boundaries (ONS Open Geography Portal)
- Check for flooding: flood areas (Environment Agency)
- Local authority district boundaries and codes (ONS Open Geography Portal)