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.
4,063 approved · 921 refused · 122 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
128 - 130 Church Street Croydon CR0 1RF
Received 18 Feb 202562 Lower Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 6AB
Received 18 Feb 2025158 Purley Downs Road South Croydon CR2 0RF
Received 18 Feb 2025158 Purley Downs Road South Croydon CR2 0RF
Received 18 Feb 202564 Edgecoombe South Croydon CR2 8AB
Received 18 Feb 20253 Ingham Road South Croydon CR2 8LT
Received 18 Feb 2025240 Sydenham Road Croydon CR0 2EB
Received 19 Feb 202521 Purley Rise Purley CR8 3AW
Received 19 Feb 202519 Woodlands Grove Coulsdon CR5 3AN
Received 19 Feb 2025Sunley House 4 Bedford Park Croydon CR0 2AP
Received 19 Feb 2025214 Lower Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 7AB
Received 19 Feb 202571 Tollers Lane Coulsdon CR5 1BF
Received 19 Feb 202510 Clyde Avenue South Croydon CR2 9DS
Received 19 Feb 2025179 The Glade Croydon CR0 7UL
Received 20 Feb 202514 Somerton Close Purley CR8 4BA
Received 20 Feb 20251109 - 1111 London Road Norbury London SW16 4XD
Received 20 Feb 2025Peter Sylvester Centre 11 Bramley Hill South Croydon CR2 6LX
Received 20 Feb 202515 Johnson Drive Coulsdon Croydon CR5 3JR
Received 20 Feb 20251 Stanley Gardens South Croydon CR2 9AH
Received 20 Feb 2025Purley Baptist Church Banstead Road Purley CR8 3EA
Received 20 Feb 202533 Waddon Road Croydon CR0 4LH
Received 21 Feb 20253 Springhurst Close Croydon CR0 5AT
Received 21 Feb 202572 - 80 North End Croydon CR0 1UJ
Received 21 Feb 202541 Furze Lane Purley CR8 3EJ
Received 21 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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