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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.
4,031 approved · 911 refused · 120 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
30 Ridgemount Avenue Croydon CR0 8TQ
Received 5 Feb 20256 Windmill Road Croydon CR0 2XN
Received 5 Feb 2025Development Site At 176 - 178 Orchard Way Croydon CR0 7NN
Received 5 Feb 2025Meridian High School Fairchildes Avenue Croydon CR0 0AH
Received 5 Feb 202564 Woodcote Grove Road Coulsdon CR5 2AD
Received 5 Feb 202577A George Street Croydon CR0 1LD
Received 5 Feb 202539 Grimwade Avenue Croydon CR0 5DJ
Received 5 Feb 2025188 Whitehorse Road Croydon CR0 2LA
Received 5 Feb 2025188 Whitehorse Road Croydon CR0 2LA
Received 5 Feb 202561 Kingswood Way South Croydon CR2 8QN
Received 5 Feb 202546 Frith Road Croydon CR0 1TA
Received 5 Feb 2025Development Site Former Site Of Queens Arms 40 Portland Road South Norwood London SE25 4PQ
Received 5 Feb 2025Development Site 47 Selhurst Road South Norwood London SE25 5QA
Received 5 Feb 202539 Carmichael Road South Norwood London SE25 5LS
Received 6 Feb 2025113 Estcourt Road South Norwood London SE25 4SA
Received 6 Feb 202541A Highfield Road Purley CR8 2JJ
Received 6 Feb 2025110 Markfield Court Wood Lane Croydon CR0 9HP
Received 6 Feb 2025Connaught Towers 682 - 684 London Road Thornton Heath CR7 7HU
Received 6 Feb 20251 The Croft 44 Brownlow Road Croydon CR0 5JT
Received 6 Feb 2025Amenity Land Rear Of 50 To 94 Aveling Close Purley
Received 6 Feb 202547 Brooklyn Road South Norwood London SE25 4NH
Received 6 Feb 202563 Coulsdon Road Coulsdon CR5 2LD
Received 6 Feb 202520 Foxley Hill Road Purley CR8 2HB
Received 6 Feb 2025Land Adjoining And To The Rear Of 14 - 20 Poppy Lane Croydon
Received 6 Feb 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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