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.
3,996 approved · 902 refused · 117 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
2 Lower Road Kenley CR8 5NB
Received 13 Jan 20252 Lower Road Kenley CR8 5NB
Received 13 Jan 2025Unit 1 500 Purley Way Croydon CR0 4NZ
Received 13 Jan 202510 Groveland Avenue Norbury London SW16 3BD
Received 13 Jan 202530 Burgoyne Road South Norwood London SE25 6JT
Received 14 Jan 202532 Midhurst Avenue Croydon CR0 3PR
Received 14 Jan 2025110 Canterbury Road Croydon CR0 3HA
Received 14 Jan 2025NatWest Sports Ground Location , Land To The North Of Turle Road, Streatham, London
Received 14 Jan 2025Easy Hotel 22 Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 5PE
Received 14 Jan 202510 Tree View Close Upper Norwood London SE19 2QT
Received 14 Jan 202529 Lower Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 6PQ
Received 14 Jan 202510 Woodstock Road Croydon CR0 1JR
Received 14 Jan 2025Development Site At 10 Willett Road Thornton Heath CR7 6AA
Received 14 Jan 2025304 - 306 Bensham Lane Thornton Heath CR7 7EQ
Received 14 Jan 20256 Ledbury Road Croydon CR0 1EP
Received 14 Jan 20254 Hurnford Close South Croydon CR2 0AN
Received 14 Jan 202599 Hermitage Road Upper Norwood London SE19 3QL
Received 14 Jan 202535 Biggin Way Upper Norwood London SE19 3XF
Received 14 Jan 20251A Russell Hill Purley CR8 2JB
Received 14 Jan 202562B High Street Croydon CR0 1NA
Received 14 Jan 202516 Braemar Avenue Thornton Heath CR7 7RG
Received 14 Jan 202542 Virginia Road Thornton Heath CR7 8EJ
Received 15 Jan 202519 High Street South Norwood London SE25 6EZ
Received 15 Jan 202532 Dartnell Road Croydon CR0 6JA
Received 15 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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