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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.
4,551 approved · 1,070 refused · 131 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jan 2019 to 8 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
188 - 190 Addington Road South Croydon CR2 8LB
Received 19 Dec 2025Knollys House 17 Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 6SR
Received 19 Dec 2025Weathercote Promenade De Verdun Purley CR8 3LN
Received 19 Dec 2025The Glade Farm Drive Purley CR8 3LP
Received 19 Dec 202516 Silver Lane Purley CR8 3HG
Received 19 Dec 202534 Stoneyfield Road Coulsdon CR5 2HG
Received 19 Dec 202519 Downsview Road Upper Norwood London SE19 3XD
Received 19 Dec 20253 - 7 Park Street Croydon CR0 1YD
Received 19 Dec 2025Decathlon 1 Trafalgar Way Croydon CR0 4XT
Received 19 Dec 202538 Rickman Hill Coulsdon CR5 3DN
Received 19 Dec 202524 Portland Road South Norwood London SE25 4PF
Received 19 Dec 202543 Abbots Lane Kenley CR8 5JB
Received 19 Dec 2025258 Whitehorse Lane South Norwood London SE25 6UR
Received 29 Dec 2025Lidl Store 1 Hermitage Lane Norbury London SW16 3LH
Received 23 Dec 2025124 Moffat Road Thornton Heath CR7 8PW
Received 23 Dec 2025Selsdon Goods Yard Selsdon Road South Croydon CR2 0EA
Received 23 Dec 2025Land R/O 25 - 41 South End Croydon CR0 1BE
Received 29 Dec 2025128 Richmond Road Thornton Heath CR7 7QD
Received 30 Dec 2025Pavillion B Playing Fields Purley Way Croydon
Received 22 Dec 2025Carriage Way Adjacent To Legion House 75 Lower Road Kenley CR8 5NH
Received 22 Dec 2025Saints And Sinners 482 London Road Croydon CR0 2SS
Received 23 Dec 202518 Lindfield Road Croydon CR0 6HN
Received 22 Dec 202552 Bensham Grove Thornton Heath CR7 8DA
Received 23 Dec 2025Trinity School Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 7LB
Received 22 Dec 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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