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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.
4,997 approved · 1,195 refused · 153 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Jan 2019 to 14 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 16 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
77 Wickham Road Croydon CR0 8TB
Received 1 Sept 20268 Bisenden Road Croydon CR0 6UN
Received 1 Sept 2026Selsdon Park Hotel 126 Addington Road South Croydon CR2 8YA
Received 1 Sept 20263 Highdaun Drive Norbury London SW16 4LY
Received 1 Sept 202672 Bensham Manor Road Thornton Heath CR7 7AB
Received 2 Sept 20267 Higher Drive Purley CR8 2HP
Received 2 Sept 2026Rowdown Primary School Calley Down Crescent Croydon CR0 0EG
Received 2 Sept 2026Silver Pine Mowbray Road Upper Norwood London SE19 2RN
Received 2 Sept 202610 Sissinghurst Road Croydon CR0 6NH
Received 2 Sept 202615 Cullesden Road Kenley CR8 5LR
Received 2 Sept 202636 Notson Road South Norwood London SE25 4JZ
Received 2 Sept 202616 Shaftesbury Lane Coulsdon Croydon CR5 3FS
Received 2 Sept 202639 Welcomes Road Kenley CR8 5HA
Received 2 Sept 2026Land And Garages East Side Of Eagle Hill Upper Norwood London
Received 2 Sept 2026153 Ross Road South Norwood London SE25 6TW
Received 3 Sept 202654 Selsdon Park Road South Croydon CR2 8JD
Received 3 Sept 2026Dormer Lodge 234 Coulsdon Road Coulsdon CR5 1EA
Received 3 Sept 2026Land At 705 Purley Way Croydon
Received 3 Sept 202683 Croham Manor Road South Croydon CR2 7BH
Received 3 Sept 202677 & Land To Rear Of 75 Woodmere Avenue Croydon CR0 7PX
Received 3 Sept 202619 Pollards Hill North Norbury London SW16 4NJ
Received 3 Sept 2026Development Site At 29 Hayes Lane Kenley CR8 5LF
Received 3 Sept 2026Land And Buildings Rear Of 1 - 7 Gresham Road South Norwood London SE25 5JT
Received 3 Sept 202625 Grisedale Gardens Purley CR8 1EN
Received 3 Sept 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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