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01Croydon, London

Listed building consent drawings in Croydon

Croydon's list is short, 180 entries, but 14 of them are Grade I, a bigger share than in Bromley next door. Behind them sit 19 conservation areas and a housing stock where 60.2% of households live in a house. We survey the building, draw it as found and draw the proposal against it, one sheet at a time.

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    02The brief

    What the council's guidance asks of a listed owner

    Croydon's Conservation Areas General Guidance SPD is short on process and clear on principle. On when consent is needed, it says works affecting a listed building's special interest, inside or out, need consent, and that demolishing a Grade II building should be exceptional. On cost, it says no fee is charged for listed building consent.

    The demolition line matters to how we draw. Where an owner wants to remove a wall, a chimney breast or an old outbuilding, we show the element first as surveyed, then as removed, and add a note on why the loss is small against what remains.

    Red-brick mansion blocks and shopfronts on a street corner
    Upper floors of a large yellow-brick Victorian house in London with chimney pots
    Photograph: Lorenc Memaga

    03The record

    Local figures for Croydon

    Figures with their unit, period and source
    MeasureValuePeriodSource
    Works affecting a listed building's special interest, inside or out, need LBC; Grade II demolition exceptionalLBC requiredNo periodcroydon.gov.uk, Croydon Conservation Area General Guidance SPD 2013, para 4.5.3
    No fee is charged for listed building consent applications0 GBP feeNo periodcroydon.gov.uk, Croydon Conservation Area General Guidance SPD 2013, para 2.3.4
    NPPF Aug 2026, policy HE5(1)Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importanceNo periodgov.uk
    Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 s9(1), s9(4)Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictmentNo periodlegislation.gov.uk
    Listed building entries180 list entries (Historic England, within the LPA boundary)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade I listed entries14 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade II* listed entries8 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Grade II listed entries157 list entriesNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Conservation areas19 named conservation areas published by the councilNo periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Heritage at Risk entries15 Heritage at Risk Register entries within the LPA boundary (Historic England)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Scheduled monuments8 scheduled monuments intersecting the LPA boundary (Historic England)No periodplanning.data.gov.uk
    Households living in a house60.2 % of households living in a house or bungalow (detached, semi-detached or terraced)Census 2021nomisweb.co.uk
    Listed building consent decisions (PS2)14 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend)2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026)assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
    Listed building consents granted (PS2)85.7 % granted2025 Q2 to 2026 Q1 (1 Apr 2025 to 31 Mar 2026)assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

    A blank value means the figure has not been published, not that there are none. Check your own address with the council.

    Croydon7 neighbouring councils
    Councils bordering Croydon

    04The streets

    Householder applications by street in Croydon

    Streets in Croydon with the most householder applications, and the share approved
    StreetApplicationsApproved
    Devonshire Way3556%
    Mount Park Avenue3079%
    Farley Road2885%
    Chaldon Way2592%
    Norbury Hill2482%
    Pollards Hill South2463%
    Bradmore Way2387%
    Woodcote Valley Road2376%
    Littleheath Road2264%
    Valley Road2264%
    Shirley Road2174%
    Upfield2065%
    Arkwright Road1983%
    Georgia Road1963%
    Caterham Drive1878%

    Counts of householder applications by street; no individual applications are shown. Streets with fewer than five applications are left out.

    GLA Planning London Datahub, householder applications

    05The drawing

    The listed building consent routeA, What the council weighs: Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance. B, The weight given to conservation: Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assets. C, Croydon: consents decided: 14 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend). D, Croydon: consents granted: 85.7 % granted. E, Works without consent: Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictmentSurvey and significanceHeritage statementDrawings and scheduleCouncil decisionABCDE

    The listed building consent route

    How works to a listed building are consented, from the first survey to the decision.

    A What the council weighs
    Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance
    B The weight given to conservation
    Substantial weight to the conservation of designated heritage assets
    C Croydon: consents decided
    14 listed building consent decisions (to alter or extend)
    D Croydon: consents granted
    85.7 % granted
    E Works without consent
    Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictment
    The listed house in its terrace3D
    Scroll the page: the model turns with it.

    06The detail

    A borough where the top grades are common

    The Grade I count of 14 sits beside 8 at Grade II* and 157 at Grade II. The top two grades together make up a noticeable slice of the list, so an owner here is more likely than in Bromley to be dealing with a building of national standing, or to live beside one.

    That raises the importance of setting. Proposals affecting heritage assets need an assessment of significance (including setting) proportionate to the asset's importance. For a house near a higher-graded neighbour we draw the relationship in plan and elevation so the assessment has something concrete to describe.

    Reading Croydon's decision record

    Croydon decided 14 listed building consent applications in the latest published four quarters and granted 85.7%. A handful of cases is a thin base, so take it as a sense of volume.

    The council lists 15 entries on the Heritage at Risk Register and the borough contains 8 scheduled monuments.

    Putting the application in order

    Works without consent are an offence under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990. Works without consent: up to 6 months' imprisonment or a fine on summary conviction; up to 2 years or a fine on indictment. Owners who find an unconsented past alteration should tell us before we survey, because the drawings then record it honestly.

    Work on the roof is judged by separate tests, set out in mansard roof drawings in Croydon, and a lower floor is covered by basement conversion drawings in Croydon. If the house also lies in one of the conservation areas, the Bromley page shows how a neighbouring council handles the same overlap.

    Planning sheet for a single-storey rear extension: proposed ground floor plan and rear elevation, with the Property Architecture title block
    Sample drawing. Proposed plan and rear elevation from a planning application set, sheet 03 at 1:50.

    07The papers

    What the drawings rest on

    Pencil resting on a dimensioned technical drawing beside a scale ruleArchitectural design
    Photograph: Sven Mieke
    Building regulations section through a rear extension, with the roof, floor, wall and foundation build-ups labelled
    Sample drawing. Section A-A with the build-ups building control checks, sheet 07 at 1:50.

    08Correspondence

    Questions

    Does a listed house in Croydon need consent for internal work?

    Usually, when the change affects the character of the building. Send the address and we read the list entry and the council's guidance before saying which rooms matter.

    Does Croydon charge for listed building consent?

    No. The council's guidance says no fee is charged. A planning application made alongside has its own fee, and our fee is a fixed quote after a free check.

    My Croydon house is next to a Grade I building. Does that change anything?

    It can. The setting of a high-grade neighbour is a material consideration, so we draw how your proposal sits beside it and say so in the heritage note.

    Rows of brick terraced houses and gardens on a residential street

    60.2%

    of households living in a house or bungalow (detached, semi-detached or terraced)

    Households living in a house, Croydon, Census 2021. Source: nomisweb.co.uk

    Photograph: Altaf Shah

    09Further reading

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