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.
4,487 approved · 1,048 refused · 131 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
27 Orchard Rise Croydon CR0 7QZ
Received 6 Oct 202540 Box Ridge Avenue Purley CR8 3AQ
Received 6 Oct 2025Brooklyn 12 Uplands Road Kenley CR8 5EF
Received 6 Oct 2025Pavement O/S West Croydon Railway Station London Road Croydon CR0 2TA
Received 6 Oct 2025Pavement O/S West Croydon Railway Station London Road Croydon CR0 2TA
Received 6 Oct 2025Stovell House Surgery 188 Lower Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 6AH
Received 6 Oct 20256 Trojan Way Croydon CR0 4XL
Received 6 Oct 20254 Monahan Avenue Purley CR8 3BA
Received 6 Oct 2025Amenity Land At Deans Close Croydon CR0 5PU
Received 6 Oct 20256 Shaw Crescent South Croydon CR2 9JA
Received 6 Oct 202519 Liverpool Road Thornton Heath CR7 8LS
Received 6 Oct 202551 Kersey Drive South Croydon CR2 8SX
Received 6 Oct 202512 Limekiln Place Upper Norwood London SE19 2RE
Received 6 Oct 2025145 Purley Oaks Road South Croydon CR2 0NZ
Received 6 Oct 202513 Paxton Grove Coulsdon Croydon CR5 3FX
Received 6 Oct 202575 Selsdon Road South Croydon CR2 6PZ
Received 7 Oct 202516 The Gallop South Croydon CR2 7LP
Received 7 Oct 202553 Newlands Road Norbury London SW16 4SR
Received 7 Oct 20254 Croham Valley Road South Croydon CR2 7NA
Received 7 Oct 202532 Thornhill Road Croydon CR0 2XY
Received 7 Oct 20256 Girton Gardens Croydon CR0 8PX
Received 7 Oct 202589 Outram Road Croydon CR0 6XJ
Received 7 Oct 2025Flat 1 93 Outram Road Croydon CR0 6XJ
Received 7 Oct 2025823 - 825 Brighton Road Purley CR8 2BJ
Received 8 Oct 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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