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This is the advice guide for flats. https://www.lease-advice.org/advice-guide/ce-getting-started/
I'd have thought you would be eligible - as far as I know everyone is eligible - but I've rightly had my knuckles rapped by @danstuff for speaking at too high a level about what is an extremely complex area of law, so I'll probably leave anything more detailed to your own investigations.
I'd once again recommend Mari and Amanda though - both fantastic - or making an appointment with LEASE https://clients.lease-advice.org/Appointment/Appointment?isFireSafety=False to discuss your options. It's free.
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would we be eligible to buy the freehold of our block? two of the 3 are very easily extendable but the council have refused permission (the guy at the other side has tried apparently)
Two out of the three of you, or all three, could do, yes, subject to the usual caveats and qualifications inherent in dealing with an Act as complex and inconsistent as LRHUDA93. An extension would presumably require permission from Southwark in its capacity as both freeholder and planning body at the moment. Buy the freehold and you'd still have planning issues to deal with.
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This is interesting.. i live in a small block of 3 flats all privately owned, leaseholder is southwark council, its on the edge of a bigger estate where there is much a mixture of social and private owned housing, and much bigger flat blocks.
would we be eligible to buy the freehold of our block? two of the 3 are very easily extendable but the council have refused permission (the guy at the other side has tried apparently)