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.
4,115 approved · 934 refused · 124 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
67 Brighton Road Purley CR8 4HD
Received 17 Mar 202589 Woodmansterne Road Coulsdon CR5 2DL
Received 17 Mar 202514 Firsby Avenue Croydon CR0 8TL
Received 17 Mar 202567 Woodmere Avenue Croydon CR0 7PX
Received 17 Mar 20257A East Hill South Croydon CR2 0AL
Received 17 Mar 202514A Normanton Road South Croydon CR2 7AR
Received 17 Mar 2025316 Old Lodge Lane Purley CR8 4AQ
Received 17 Mar 202524 Lansdowne Road Purley CR8 2PA
Received 17 Mar 20253 Betula Close Kenley CR8 5ET
Received 17 Mar 2025Unit 1 1 Ambassador House Brigstock Road Thornton Heath CR7 7JG
Received 17 Mar 202524 Lansdowne Road Purley CR8 2PA
Received 17 Mar 202510 Foxley Gardens Purley CR8 2DQ
Received 18 Mar 202522 Park Road Kenley CR8 5AQ
Received 18 Mar 202520 Kingswood Avenue South Croydon CR2 9DQ
Received 18 Mar 20255 Eden Road Croydon CR0 1BB
Received 18 Mar 2025Unit A Croydon Road Industrial Estate Tannery Close Beckenham BR3 4BY
Received 17 Mar 202568 Norbury Avenue Thornton Heath CR7 8AE
Received 18 Mar 202561 Shirley Avenue Croydon CR0 8SP
Received 18 Mar 2025113 Coulsdon Road Coulsdon CR5 1EH
Received 18 Mar 202511 North Down South Croydon CR2 9PB
Received 18 Mar 2025109 Parkway Croydon CR0 0JA
Received 18 Mar 2025The Limes Melville Avenue South Croydon CR2 7YN
Received 18 Mar 202567 The Glade Croydon CR0 7QJ
Received 18 Mar 2025Development Site At 10A The Drive Coulsdon CR5 2BL
Received 18 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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