You may need to visit https://appengine.google.com/, select an application, then go to Administration -> Application Settings, scroll down half-way and click "Disable Application" under "Disable or Delete". One the next page you can also request permanent deletion.
To delete projects created using Google cloud console, you can use the following method:
1: Create a dummy gmail account.
2: Add the dummy gmail account as an owner of the project.
3: Login into the dummy gmail account.
4: Accept your role as owner of the project.
5: Visit Cloud console.
5: Go to Cloud Console -> Permissions and delete the main user from the project.
NOTE: Other than Step 2, rest all the steps should be performed using dummy gmail account.
Just found that Google doesn't allow you to delete project in old console anymore. For now, you need to click on project, then "Billing & Settings", you will find delete button there.
Deletion of projects is no longer available under the old Google Cloud Platform Console. To delete a project, open the latest console. Once done, you should be able to see a list of your projects as well as the delete icon(s) on the right side:
You must be a project owner to shut down a project.
Open the console menu Gallery Menu on the top left and select IAM & Admin, then select All projects.
Find the name or project ID of the project you want to shut down, then
click DELETE PROJECT. A confirmation screen describing what will
happen appears.
To confirm, enter your project ID and click Shut down.
Shutting down a project stops all billing and traffic serving, shuts
down any Google Cloud Platform App Engine applications, and terminates
all Compute Engine instances. All project data associated with Google
Cloud and Google APIs services becomes inaccessible.
After a 7-day waiting period, the project and associated data are
permanently deleted from the console.
As of July 2017 the waiting period has increased:
After a 30-day waiting period, the project and associated data are permanently deleted from the console.
As 2017 approaches, Raptor's answer pretty much nailed it, but here is a screenshot and the basic steps to delete a project from the google cloud platform.
As of Dec 30, 2017, this appears to be different (yet again). I did the following.
Logon to the Google Cloud Console, Select IAM & Admin then Settings (from hamburger menu on top-left nav-bar). This is a cascading menu. After choosing that I saw the following.
On the bottom left of the screen is a button/link labeled Manage resources, click on it.
After clicking on it, I saw the following screen, on which I selected the project name I wanted to delete and clicked the Delete ICON/button.
Then I was asked if I wanted to "SHUTDOWN" the project and to do so I had to enter the project ID number, so I did and then clicked on the SHUTDOWN button/link.
Hope this helps someone. The others answers did help me out but were not the exact steps I had to follow.
Important Note: The terms "Shutting Down" a project and "Deleteting a Project" seem to mean the same thing, so if you stumble across something that says "Shutdown the project" you have likely come across another way to "delete the project".
Once we click on IAM & Admin we will land up in a page as follows.
Go to settings page from the left menu
It will take us to the currently selected project's settings page. On top there is a shutdown button. Press that for deleting the project.
Please note as per the official documentation,
This method immediately marks a project to be deleted. A notification email will be sent to the user who initiated the delete operation and the Technical category contacts that are listed in Essential Contacts. If there's no contact in the Technical category, the fallback contact will not be notified. A project that is marked for deletion is not usable. If the project has a billing account associated with it, that association is broken, and isn't reinstated if the project delete operation is canceled. After 30 days, the project is fully deleted.
Once we press the shutdown button, GCP will show a popup as shown below.
As a confirmation GCP is asking for project id to be manually entered in the popup. Enter the project id with caution and press shutdown in the popup.