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39 Brickfield Road Thornton Heath CR7 8DS

25/03365/FULFull planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 16 March 2026

Council decision: Permission RefusedDelegated (officer decision)2 reasons for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Change of use from a small care home (Class C2) to large 10-bedroom 10-person House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) (Class Sui Generis) and associated cycle and refuse storage (retrospective).

Received
16 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
48
Ward
Norbury Park
Agent
Planners & Architects
  1. Received16 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.19 Nov
  4. Target22 Dec
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 140 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 39 Brickfield Road Thornton Heath CR7 8DS. Croydon has handled 3,635 applications of this type. This one was decided in 151 days, 14 weeks longer than Croydon's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Norbury Park. We hold 1,530 applications in total for the CR7 postcode area.

79% of full applications at London Borough of Croydon were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The proposal for use of the building as a large HMO of 10 people, represents an over-intensive use of the site and would be detrimental to the amenities of the occupiers of surrounding residential properties by reason of noise and disturbance and would result in a level of occupation which would be out of keeping with the character of the area thereby conflicting with Policy DM10 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018) and Policies D3 and D6 of the London Plan (2021)
  2. The proposal would not provide satisfactory facilities for cycle storage. The proposed development therefore fails to comply with policies SP8 and DM10, DM16, DM29, and DM30 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018), Policy T5 of the London Plan (2021) and the London Cycling Design Standards (2016).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
CR7 8DS
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2025
Consultation expiry
24 November 2025
Consultation start
11 November 2025
Neighbour consultation start
27 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
19 November 2025
Target decision date
22 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Planners & Architects
Agent address
443 Streatham High Road London SW16 3PH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
3 November 2025
Site notice end
24 November 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14413858
Documents
13
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Croydon

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