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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.
4,028 approved · 910 refused · 118 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
41 Farley Road South Croydon CR2 8DB
Received 30 Jan 202541 Farley Road South Croydon CR2 8DB
Received 30 Jan 2025160 Croham Valley Road South Croydon CR2 7RA
Received 30 Jan 202515 Hartley Old Road Purley CR8 4HH
Received 30 Jan 202515 Hartley Old Road Purley CR8 4HH
Received 30 Jan 2025Bus Shelter Pavement O/S 904 London Road Thornton Heath CR7 7PE
Received 30 Jan 2025Bus Shelter O/S Brigstock House 78 - 86 Brigstock Road Croydon CR7 7JA
Received 30 Jan 2025Bus Shelter O/S Electric House 3 Wellesley Road Croydon CR0 2AG
Received 30 Jan 2025Bus Shelter Pavement Outside 1334 - 1336 London Road London SW16 4DG
Received 30 Jan 2025Bus Shelter Pavement O/S 1052 - 1053 Whitgift Centre Croydon CR0 1UW
Received 30 Jan 2025Bus Shelter Pavement Outside Jubilee Court London Road Croydon CR7 6JL
Received 30 Jan 2025Reedham Station Off Lodge Lane Purley CR8 4DJ
Received 29 Jan 202540 Taunton Lane Coulsdon CR5 1SE
Received 30 Jan 2025Tudor Dene 2 Woodfield Close Upper Norwood London SE19 3EN
Received 30 Jan 2025Bus Shelter Pavement Outside 1353 - 1357 London Road London SW16 4BE
Received 30 Jan 2025Bus Shelter Pavement Outside 152 London Road Croydon CR0 2TD
Received 30 Jan 202533 Haslemere Road Thornton Heath CR7 7BF
Received 30 Jan 2025Bus Shelter Pavement Outside 938 Brighton Road Croydon CR8 2LP
Received 30 Jan 2025St Johns Church Upper Selsdon Road South Croydon CR2 8DD
Received 30 Jan 202537 Stoats Nest Road Coulsdon CR5 2JJ
Received 30 Jan 2025Elizabeth Cottage Rear Of 63 Portland Road South Norwood London SE25 4UN
Received 30 Jan 2025Conifers 4 Pine Coombe Croydon CR0 5HS
Received 30 Jan 202590 Windmill Road Croydon CR0 2XP
Received 30 Jan 202517B Woodland Gardens South Croydon CR2 8PH
Received 31 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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