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.
4,656 approved · 1,106 refused · 136 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jan 2019 to 9 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
11 Coombe Wood Hill Purley CR8 1JP
Received 13 Apr 2026Southern House Wellesley Grove Croydon CR0 1XG
Received 10 Apr 202636 Portnalls Rise Coulsdon CR5 3DA
Received 13 Apr 202697 Mead Way Coulsdon CR5 1PR
Received 14 Apr 20268A Harewood Road South Croydon CR2 7AL
Received 14 Apr 2026168 Ballards Way Croydon CR0 5RG
Received 14 Apr 202637 Farley Road South Croydon CR2 8DB
Received 15 Apr 202661 Falkland Park Avenue South Norwood London SE25 6SQ
Received 15 Apr 202679 Chelsham Road South Croydon CR2 6HZ
Received 15 Apr 202632 Thornhill Road Croydon CR0 2XY
Received 15 Apr 202644 Abbots Lane Kenley CR8 5JH
Received 15 Apr 202661 St Saviour's Road Croydon CR0 2XF
Received 15 Apr 202678 Oakfield Road Croydon CR0 2UB
Received 15 Apr 202697 Chaldon Way Coulsdon CR5 1DN
Received 15 Apr 20261-5 Lansdowne Road And 30-32 Wellesley Road Croydon London CR0 2BX
Received 15 Apr 202616 Postmill Close Croydon CR0 5DY
Received 15 Apr 202636 Oakwood Avenue Purley CR8 1AQ
Received 16 Apr 2026168 Canterbury Road Croydon CR0 3HE
Received 16 Apr 20263 Redwood Close Kenley CR8 5DA
Received 16 Apr 202628 Liverpool Road Thornton Heath CR7 8LS
Received 16 Apr 20261A Hill Drive Norbury London SW16 4NP
Received 16 Apr 202624 Park Road Kenley CR8 5AQ
Received 16 Apr 202658 Virginia Road Thornton Heath CR7 8EJ
Received 16 Apr 2026West Wickham Water Treatment Works (WTW) Addiscombe Road West Wickham BR4 9BF
Received 16 Apr 2026Records 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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