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.
4,434 approved · 1,030 refused · 130 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
New Addington Leisure And Community Centre 88 Central Parade Croydon CR0 0JB
Received 22 Aug 202536 Harcourt Road Thornton Heath CR7 6BU
Received 22 Aug 202536 Harcourt Road Thornton Heath CR7 6BU
Received 22 Aug 2025198 Harrington Road South Norwood London SE25 4NE
Received 22 Aug 2025110 Norbury Hill Norbury London SW16 3RT
Received 22 Aug 2025Pavement Fronting Whitgift Centre, Wellesley Road, CR0 1UW
Received 22 Aug 202533 Stanger Road South Norwood London SE25 5JZ
Received 22 Aug 2025Unit 7B Colonnades 619 Purley Way Croydon CR0 4RQ
Received 22 Aug 2025Unit 7B Colonnades 619 Purley Way Croydon CR0 4RQ
Received 22 Aug 2025Grangewood Park WC Grange Road South Norwood London SE25 6TH
Received 20 Aug 202519 Lincoln Road South Norwood London SE25 4HG
Received 26 Aug 202545 Wattendon Road Kenley CR8 5LW
Received 26 Aug 202529 Selwood Road Croydon CR0 7JU
Received 26 Aug 202529 Selwood Road Croydon CR0 7JU
Received 26 Aug 202540 Box Ridge Avenue Purley CR8 3AQ
Received 26 Aug 2025385 Holmesdale Road South Norwood London SE25 6PN
Received 26 Aug 2025118A Foxley Lane Purley CR8 3NB
Received 26 Aug 2025118 Foxley Lane Purley CR8 3NB
Received 26 Aug 202528 Nutfield Road Thornton Heath CR7 7DL
Received 26 Aug 202529 Clyde Road Croydon CR0 6SY
Received 26 Aug 20252 - 28 North End Croydon CR0 1UB
Received 26 Aug 202519 Parker Road Croydon CR0 1DU
Received 26 Aug 202560 Headcorn Road Thornton Heath CR7 6JP
Received 26 Aug 202561 St James's Road Croydon CR0 2US
Received 26 Aug 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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