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.
4,080 approved · 930 refused · 124 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
39 Ringwood Avenue Croydon CR0 3DT
Received 27 Feb 2025110A Clyde Road Croydon CR0 6SW
Received 27 Feb 2025145A Purley Downs Road South Croydon CR2 0RN
Received 27 Feb 202538 Sundridge Road Croydon CR0 6RH
Received 27 Feb 2025266 Addington Road South Croydon CR2 8LE
Received 27 Feb 2025Development Site At 33 Purley Downs Road Purley CR8 1HA
Received 27 Feb 202569 Norfolk Avenue South Croydon CR2 8BW
Received 27 Feb 202574A London Road Croydon CR0 2TB
Received 27 Feb 202523 Monahan Avenue Purley CR8 3BB
Received 27 Feb 202510 Upper Selsdon Road South Croydon CR2 8DE
Received 28 Feb 2025139 Haling Park Road South Croydon CR2 6NN
Received 28 Feb 202594 Mayfield Road South Croydon CR2 0BF
Received 28 Feb 2025116 - 118 Selsdon Road South Croydon CR2 6PG
Received 28 Feb 2025161 Gibson's Hill Norbury London SW16 3ES
Received 28 Feb 202528 Holmewood Road South Norwood London SE25 6UY
Received 28 Feb 2025Willis Court 2 Dunheved Road North Thornton Heath CR7 6AH
Received 28 Feb 202525 - 29 Taunton Lane Coulsdon CR5 1SJ
Received 28 Feb 202525 - 29 Taunton Lane Coulsdon CR5 1SJ
Received 28 Feb 202515 Gurney Crescent Croydon CR0 3JR
Received 3 Mar 202543 Hillcote Avenue Norbury London SW16 3BH
Received 3 Mar 202543 Hillcote Avenue Norbury London SW16 3BH
Received 3 Mar 202511 Lyndhurst Close Croydon CR0 5LU
Received 3 Mar 20256 Somerton Close Purley CR8 4BA
Received 3 Mar 2025Richards Folly Bradmore Green Coulsdon Road Coulsdon CR5 2LQ
Received 3 Mar 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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