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.
4,449 approved · 1,032 refused · 130 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Interactive planning map loads with JavaScript. Dataset sources are linked below.
Download Article 4 coverage for all authorities (CSV)
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.
211 Wickham Road Croydon CR0 8TG
Received 5 Sept 202512 Woodcote Lane Purley CR8 3HA
Received 5 Sept 2025135-137 Milne Park East Croydon CR0 0BF
Received 8 Sept 202521 Broomhall Road South Croydon CR2 0PX
Received 8 Sept 202518 Croham Mount South Croydon CR2 0BR
Received 8 Sept 2025276 Beulah Hill Upper Norwood London SE19 3HF
Received 8 Sept 202594 Kilmartin Avenue Norbury London SW16 4QZ
Received 8 Sept 202523 Hollymeoak Road Coulsdon CR5 3QA
Received 8 Sept 202515 Driftwood Drive Kenley CR8 5HT
Received 8 Sept 202534 The Wandle Park Trading Estate Factory Lane Croydon CR0 3RL
Received 8 Sept 20257 Elm Close South Croydon CR2 7AH
Received 8 Sept 202561 Sanderstead Road South Croydon CR2 0PF
Received 8 Sept 20251-3 Queensway, Purley Way And 12 Imperial Way Croydon CR0 4BD
Received 8 Sept 2025Flat 1 Old Lodge Court 2 Reedham Drive Purley CR8 4DS
Received 8 Sept 202570B Stafford Road And 8A Stafford Gardens Croydon CR0 4NE
Received 8 Sept 2025Land On The North Side Of Longwood Road Kenley
Received 8 Sept 202511 Chartham Road South Norwood London SE25 4HN
Received 8 Sept 202516 Archer Road South Norwood London SE25 4JN
Received 8 Sept 2025Stafford Court Stafford Road Croydon CR0 4NL
Received 8 Sept 2025Spiral House 29 - 35 Gladstone Road Croydon CR0 2BQ
Received 8 Sept 202549 - 51A Shirley Road Croydon CR0 7ER
Received 8 Sept 20255 Iris Close Croydon CR0 8XW
Received 9 Sept 2025143 Harrington Road South Norwood London SE25 4NW
Received 9 Sept 202587A Whitehorse Road Croydon CR0 2JJ
Received 9 Sept 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.
How to search planning applications
Understanding planning · 13 min read
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.

Understanding planning · 13 min read
Read planning drawings, floor plans, elevations and sections. Use labelled diagrams, a drawing comparison table and revision checks to understand a proposal.

Property research · 13 min read
Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
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.
Check collection coverage