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 Croydon. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,992 approved · 902 refused · 117 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jan 2019 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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.
Elizabeth Cottage Rear Of 63 Portland Road South Norwood London SE25 4UN
Received 10 Jan 2025172 Foxley Lane Purley CR8 3NF
Received 10 Jan 2025Norbury Hall Old Peoples Home 55 Craignish Avenue Norbury London SW16 4RW
Received 10 Jan 2025Norbury Hall Old Peoples Home 55 Craignish Avenue Norbury London SW16 4RW
Received 10 Jan 2025Donald Court 47A Normanton Road South Croydon CR2 7AF
Received 10 Jan 2025Simpson Court 178 Pampisford Road South Croydon CR2 6GS
Received 10 Jan 2025Amenity Land At Wordsworth Avenue Kenley
Received 10 Jan 2025316 Old Lodge Lane Purley CR8 4AQ
Received 10 Jan 202512 Pitt Road Thornton Heath CR7 7BT
Received 13 Jan 202521 Purley Rise Purley CR8 3AW
Received 13 Jan 202539 Beatrice Avenue Norbury London SW16 4UW
Received 13 Jan 202535 Headcorn Road Thornton Heath CR7 6JR
Received 13 Jan 202537 Clifford Road South Norwood London SE25 5JS
Received 13 Jan 2025Selbourne Lancaster Road South Norwood London SE25 4DG
Received 13 Jan 20259 Tullick Way Coulsdon Croydon CR5 3GW
Received 13 Jan 2025126 Church Road Upper Norwood London SE19 2NT
Received 13 Jan 202595 Winterbourne Road Thornton Heath CR7 7QY
Received 13 Jan 2025Land North Of Warbank Social Club, Layhams Road, BR2 6AR
Received 13 Jan 2025Land Adjoining Norbury Railway Station Norbury Avenue Norbury London
Received 13 Jan 2025Flat 3 47 Morland Road Croydon CR0 6HA
Received 13 Jan 202535 - 37 Morland Avenue Croydon CR0 6EA
Received 13 Jan 202594 Arundel Avenue South Croydon CR2 8BE
Received 13 Jan 2025Connaught Towers 682 - 684 London Road Thornton Heath CR7 7HU
Received 13 Jan 2025300 Norbury Avenue Norbury London SW16 3RL
Received 13 Jan 2025Records 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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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for London Borough of Croydon, 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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