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Croydon Minster Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan CROYDON MINSTER CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL AND MANAGEMENT PLAN SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT CROYDON COUNCIL ISSUE CONSERVATION AREA Supplementary Planning Document endorsed for DESIGNATION adoption by 17 November 2014 and adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) at Full The Croydon Minster Conservation Area Council 1 December 2014 (formerly known as the Parish Church Conservation Area) was designated in 1971 This document is available to view and download online at: www.croydon.gov.uk/caamps CONSERVATION AREA GENERAL GUIDANCE PUBLISHED BY Please read this document alongside the Spatial Planning Service, Croydon Council Croydon Conservation Area General Guidance Zone B, 6 Floor SPD (adopted April 2013). This document is Bernard Weatherill House, available online at: 8 Mint Walk www.croydon.gov.uk/environment/conservation/ Croydon CR0 1EA conservation-areas www.croydon.gov.uk Email: [email protected] CROYDON LOCAL PLAN Tel: 0208 4071385 The Croydon Local Plan and other Supplementary Planning Documents are IMAGE CREDITS available online at: http://www.croydon.gov.uk/ Historic photographs supplied by the Croydon planningandregeneration/framework/localplan/ Local Studies and Archives Centre unless other- wise specified All other photographs supplied by London Borough of Croydon Maps reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and database right 2014. Ordnance Survey Licence Number 100019257, courtesy of Croydon Council Aerial photography: ‘Cities Revealed’ aerial photography © ’The GeoInformation Group’ 2006 © Croydon Council 2014 CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 01 PART 2: MANAGEMENT PLAN 33 1.1 What is a Conservation Area? 03 1.2 What is a Conservation Area 03 8.0 DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES 34 Appraisal and Management Plan? 8.1 Demolition 34 1.3 What is this Document’s Status? 03 8.2 New Development 34 1.4 Community Involvement 03 8.3 Development Affecting the 35 1.5 Designation Background 03 Conservation Area’s Setting 1.6 Statement of Special Character 04 8.4 Extensions 35 1.7 Character Areas Map 04 8.5 Window Replacement 36 8.6 Bay Windows 36 PART 1: APPRAISAL 05 8.7 Cladding, Rendering or Painting 36 of Walls 2.0 CONTEXT 06 8.8 Shop Fronts 36 2.1 Location and Setting 06 8.9 Advertising and Signage 36 2.2 Historic Development 08 8.10 Landscaping 36 2.3 Archaeological Significance 15 8.11 Public Realm Works 36 3.0 CHARACTER AREA 16 9.0 BUILDING MAINTENANCE REPAIR 37 DESCRIPTIONS AND IMPROVEMENT 3.1 Minster Character Area 16 9.1 Building Maintenance 37 3.2 Victorian Terraces Character Area 17 9.2 Repairing, Restoring and Reinstating 37 Architectural Features 4.0 TOWNSCAPE CHARACTER 18 9.3 Energy Efficiency Improvements 37 4.1 Layout and Plan Form 18 4.2 Density and Land Uses 19 10.0 ENHANCEMENT PROPOSALS 38 4.3 Building Height and Massing 19 10.1 Public Realm Improvements 38 4.4 Topography and Views 19 10.2 Tree Management in Public Areas 38 10.3 Street Lighting 38 5.0 STREETSCAPE CHARACTER 22 10.4 Related Council-Led Initiatives 39 5.1 Public Realm and Open Space 22 5.2 Permeability and Connectivity 23 8.0 ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS 41 5.3 Street Furniture 24 8.1 Statutory Listed Buildings 41 5.4 Greenery and Trees 25 8.2 Locally Listed Buildings 41 8.3 Locally Listed Parks 41 6.0 ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER 26 8.4 Article 4 Directions 42 6.1 General Architectural Character 26 8.5 Building Regulations 42 6.2 Historic and Architectural 26 8.7 Planning Enforcement 42 Significance of Buildings 8.8 Archaeological Investigations 42 6.3 Key Architectural Features and 30 8.9 Scheduled Monument Consent 42 Building Materials APPENDIX 1: OTHER RELEVANT 43 7.0 CONDITION AND THREATS 31 INFORMATION 7.1 Current Condition 31 7.2 Heritage Assets at Risk 32 APPENDIX 2: CONTACTS 44 7.3 Key Threats and Issues 32 N Upper Norwood Norbury Selhurst Thornton Heath Woodside Broad Green Monks Orchard Addiscombe Croydon Shirley South Croydon Addington New Addington Selsdon Purley Sanderstead Kenley Coulsdon Key: KEY Parish Church Conservation Area Croydon Minster Conservation Area Other Conservation Areas Old Other conservation areas in Croydon Coulsdon © Crown Copyright and database right 2012 Ordnance Survey Licence No:100019257 Map 1. The location of the Croydon Minster Conservation Area and other conservation areas in Croydon INTRODUCTION Croydon Minster Conservation Area Other conservation areas in Croydon N Gothic Villas Church Hall The Minster Church of St John the Baptist St John’s Memorial Garden Tudor Arch Above: Map 2. The boundary of the Croydon Minster Conservation Area Previous Page: South porch of Croydon Minster, which contains 15th century fabric 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 WHAT IS A CONSERVATION AREA? 1.1.1 A conservation area is an area of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance. Please see section 1.3 of Croydon’s Conservation Area General Guidance SPD for further information. 1.2 WHAT IS A CONSERVATION View from Old Palace Road of Old Palace School and the Church of St John AREA APPRAISAL AND the Baptist (Croydon Minster), both Grade I listed. There is a strong physical MANAGEMENT PLAN? and historical relationship between these two buildings. 1.2.1 A Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Document (SPD) to the Croydon 1.4.2 Following the consultation Plan is a document produced Local Plan and will be a material all responses were considered to supplement Croydon’s consideration when assessing and where appropriate, the Local Plan and Croydon’s planning applications that document was amended prior Conservation Area General affect the conservation area. to a recommendation to full Guidance SPD. It is expected that all planning Council for adoption. applications for sites within the 1.2.2 This document is structured Croydon Minster Conservation 1.5 DESIGNATION in two parts, an Appraisal of Area will be informed by both BACKGROUND the conservation area and an this document and the Croydon 1.5.1 The Croydon Minster associated Management Plan. Conservation Area General Conservation Area was The Appraisal defines the Guidance SPD. designated as the Parish principal qualities that constitute Church Conservation Area by the conservation area’s special 1.4 COMMUNITY Croydon Council in October character and identifies INVOLVEMENT 1971 as the Council’s second threats to this character. The 1.4.1 The Mid Croydon conservation area. Appraisal is not necessarily Conservation Area Advisory exhaustive and other elements Panel (see section 1.4 of the 1.5.2 In 2014 the name of the of architectural or historic Conservation Area General ‘Parish Church Conservation interest may be present within Guidance SPD) supplied infor- Area’ name has been changed the area. The Management mation to inform the production to the ‘Croydon Minster Plan addresses issues raised of this document prior to Conservation Area’ to reflect in the Appraisal and provides public consultation, which ran the Minster status of the Church area-specific development from 10 February - 24 March of St John the Baptist. The and maintenance guidelines 2014 alongside the public boundary has not been affected to supplement those provided consultation on the Draft Old by this change. in Croydon’s Conservation Town Masterplan. The draft Area General Guidance SPD. document was available to view 1.6 STATEMENT OF Potential enhancement of the and download on the Council’s SPECIAL CHARACTER area is also considered. For website and hard copies were 1.6.1 The Croydon Minster further information please see available from local libraries. Conservation Area (formerly section 1.4 of the Conservation Site notices were placed in the known as the Parish Church Area General Guidance SPD. conservation area, letters were Conservation Area) is of sent to all properties located significant historical importance 1.3 WHAT IS THE STATUS OF within its boundary, an article as Croydon’s place of origin THIS DOCUMENT? was published in the Croydon with a Saxon settlement 1.3.1 After public consultation Guardian and two events were at the source of the River this document will be adopted held at Matthews Yard on 12 Wandle and a continuous as a Supplementary Planning and 15 March 2014. habitation for over a thousand 3 years. Croydon’s association over nine centuries with the Archbishop of Canterbury has shaped the identity of the area and left an enduring physical legacy, principally in the quality of its historic buildings but also one that can be traced through the historic street pattern. The Croydon Minster and the complex of buildings at Old Palace School are Grade I listed, the latter described in the Buildings of England series as ‘one of the best survivals in England of a medieval archbishop’s palace’,1 one of a string of palaces on a processional route from Canterbury to Lambeth. Church Street is one of the oldest streets in Croydon and contains many buildings of historic and architectural interest with high quality materials and detailing 1.6.2 The Croydon Minster Conservation Area contains other buildings of special historic and architectural interest in A. Minster and Old Church Road and Church Street Palace Character Area dating from the 17th to the 19th CHURCH STREET B. Victorian Terraces century, including the Grade II Character Area listed Gothic Villas (2-8 Church Road) and the locally listed former Wesleyan Chapel (26 ROMAN WAY Church Road). Howley Road 120 to114 and Old Palace Road contain 2 characteristic examples of 124 mid and late Victorian houses. CHURCH STREET The buildings in the area are 12 complemented by the greenery 1 136 of the Minster Churchyard, the 26 St John’s Memorial Garden and trees in the grounds of Old Palace School.
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