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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.
4,698 approved · 1,115 refused · 138 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
86 Westfield Avenue South Croydon CR2 9JW
Received 8 Jun 202619 Ashburton Road Croydon CR0 6AP
Received 8 Jun 2026275 Homestead Way Croydon CR0 0DZ
Received 8 Jun 202613 Cypress Road South Norwood London SE25 4AY
Received 8 Jun 2026Flat 1 6 Mulgrave Road Croydon CR0 1BL
Received 8 Jun 202638B Russell Hill Purley CR8 2JA
Received 8 Jun 2026St Aidans Roman Catholic Primary School Portnalls Road Coulsdon CR5 3DE
Received 8 Jun 2026101 Rochford Way Croydon CR0 3AJ
Received 8 Jun 202614 Inglis Road Croydon CR0 6QU
Received 8 Jun 20268A Croham Manor Road South Croydon CR2 7BE
Received 8 Jun 202612 The Close Pampisford Road Purley CR8 2QD
Received 8 Jun 202670 Bensham Manor Road Thornton Heath CR7 7AB
Received 8 Jun 2026Bus Shelter Outside Porcelanosa Marshall House 468 - 472 Purley Way Croydon CR0 4RG
Received 8 Jun 2026Ground Floor Shop Premises 82 Westow Hill Upper Norwood London SE19 1SB
Received 8 Jun 2026The Mews Norbury Crescent Norbury London SW16 4JP
Received 9 Jun 20262 Buckingham Avenue Thornton Heath CR7 8AS
Received 9 Jun 202623 Orchard Rise Croydon CR0 7QZ
Received 9 Jun 2026Land To Rear Of 198 Harrington Road South Norwood London SE25 4NE
Received 9 Jun 202657 Ockley Road Croydon CR0 3DS
Received 9 Jun 2026165 Orchard Way Croydon CR0 7NR
Received 9 Jun 2026Warehouse 516 London Road Thornton Heath CR7 7HQ
Received 9 Jun 2026Former Site Of The Wheatsheaf 759 London Road Thornton Heath CR7 6AW
Received 9 Jun 202666 Beaumont Road Purley CR8 2EG
Received 9 Jun 202648 Norbury Road Thornton Heath CR7 8JN
Received 8 Jun 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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