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WEST Croydon Masterplan WEST CROYDON MASTERPLAN EAST ALAN BAXTER & ASSOCIATES MACCREANOR LAVINGTON ARCHITECTS GVA GRIMLEY DAVIS LANGDON TEAM PROJECT BOARD MEETINGS EAST CROYDON COUNCIL 2009 Dann Jessen Emma Peters 16 Oct Purespace surgery Daniel Nordh Finn Williams 21 Oct Croydon Urban Summit 1 Margaret Dewhurst Mike Kiely 22 Oct Church surgery Priscilla Holness 22 Oct Project Board meeting ALAN BAXTER & ASSOCIATES Tony Antoniou 30 Oct Network Rail surgery Malcolm Turner Vincent Lacovara 30 Oct PSH/Barratt surgery 30 Oct TfL surgery MACCREANOR LAVINGTON DESIGN FOR LONDON 04 Nov Vision workshop Richard Lavington Charlotte Kokken 10 Nov CBRE surgery Prisca Thielmann Paul Harper 11 Nov Croydon Council surgery Robert Chandler 11 Nov Mapeley surgery BARRATT HOMES 17 Nov Stakeholder feedback GVA GRIMLEY Alison Tero 19 Nov Project Board meeting Chris Hall Caroline Harper 25 Nov PSH surgery Mike Nisbet 25 Nov Whitgift meeting DAVIS LANGDON 09 Dec Croydon Urban Summit 2 Howard Spurgin CBRE INVESTORS 14 Dec Church surgery Hannah Andrews James Routledge 14 Dec DfL surgery Vanessa Clark 14 Dec Croydon Council surgery 14 Dec Network Rail surgery HOMES & COMMUNITIES 14 Dec TfL surgery AGENCY 15 Dec English Heritage meeting Chris Plume 15 Dec Croydon Council surgery Henry Kennedy-Skipton 15 Dec PSH/Barratt surgery Simon Powell 15 Dec Purespace surgery Sue Gray 15 Dec Whitfgift basement visit 17 Dec Project Board meeting MAPELEY Ben Robinson 2010 Richard King 14 Jan Croydon Council meeting 04 Feb Project Board meeting NETWORK RAIL 26 Feb TfL Transport Mini Summit James Ashman 11 Mar Project Board meeting David Robertson 17 Mar Public Realm Mini Summit 22 Mar PSH/Barratt meeting PORTMAN SQUARE HOLDINGS 22 Apr Project Board Meeting Geoffrey Randall 28 Jul Implementation Group Richard Plant 27 Aug PSH/Barratt meeting Tony Oakley 11 Sep Public consultation drop-in 18 Sep Public consultation drop-in PURESPACE GROUP 18 Sep Public exhibition Julian Shirley 19 Sep Public exhibition Yousuf Gadit 25 Sep Public consultation drop-in 02 Oct Public consultation drop-in ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS 08 Oct Public consultation drop-in CHURCH Mike Thompson 2011 Rob Austen 13 Jan Implementation Group TRANSPORT FOR LONDON Chris Maddocks Colin Mann Patricia Cazes-Potgieter ii CONTENTS 1.0 FOREWORD 01 2.0 SETTING THE SCENE 03 2.1 The Bigger Picture 04 2.2 Role of the Masterplan 06 2.3 Shared Vision 08 2.4 Public Engagement 09 2.5 Strategic Objectives 10 2.6 Policy Context 12 2.7 Historic Context 13 2.8 West Croydon Today 16 3.0 THE MASTERPLAN 23 3.1 Public Realm led Masterplan 24 3.2 The Key Ingredients 25 3.3 A Series of Components 27 3.4 Movement Parameters 28 3.5 Public Realm Parameters 31 3.6 Development Parameters 36 3.7 Delivery 49 3.8 Phasing: Now 52 3.9 Phasing: Soon 53 3.10 Phasing: Later 54 4.0 THE COMPONENTS 55 4.1 Introduction 56 WC1 West Croydon Station and Interchange Spine 58 WC2 West Croydon Circus 64 WC3 Bus Station Island 67 WC4 St michael’s Square 70 WC5 Poplar Walk 73 WC6 Station Rd Development 75 WC7 Whitgift Passage Development 78 WC8 Derby Rd Development 80 WC9 Wellesley Rd/Delta Point 83 WC10Network Rail Development 85 WC11Prospect First 87 WC12St Michael and All Angels Church 89 5.0 NEXT STEPS 93 6.0 APPENDIX 95 6.1 Tram Extension 96 6.2 Sections through the Railway Cutting 97 6.3 PTAL 99 iii Station Road London Road Poplar Walk North End Aerial photograph showing the West Croydon Masterplan area. iv 1.0 FOREWORD 1 1.1 FOREWORD 1.1.1 Croydon is unique. From major spaces. Change on the scale market town and residence of required needs clear leadership, the Archbishops of Canterbury to a shared vision, a collaborative dynamic Victorian County Borough approach and a focus on delivery. and booming 60s commercial cen­ This document is one of a series of tre, a strong sense of civic identity master plans that do just that. and aspiration runs through Croy­ don’s history. croydon’s potential 1.1.4 Developed in collaboration lies somewhere between its twin with our partners, croydon’s roles as a leading sub-centre of Metropolitan Centre master plans outer London, and a significant provide a clear vision that will and ambitious Metropolitan Centre generate shared enthusiasm and in its own right. croydon’s vision is confidence but, more importantly, to be recognised as london’s most they are all about delivery. These enterprising borough – a place that coordinated master plans provide offers rare opportunities as a focus a robust framework for significant for growth in one of the world’s positive change in CMC over great cities. the coming years, and open up exciting new opportunities for 1.1.2 Croydon already has all the involvement and investment that right ingredients. it is london’s will benefit all those who choose to biggest borough and has the live, work or play in the Borough. biggest youth population in Lon­ don. It is one of the top retail and 1.1.5 And we have already started. commercial centres in London as a direct result of croydon’s and provides one of the greatest innovative masterplanning pro­ ranges of homes; from low density cess, we are working with Network suburbs to the south of the bor­ Rail and have secured funding to ough to higher density urban areas deliver significant improvements to the north. A borough made up at East Croydon Station. We of lots of interrelated places, each are working with the Mayor to with its own distinct character, one transform Wellesley Road from third of croydon’s area is green an urban motorway into a Great space. Croydon also boasts some Space. And we are working with of the best transport connections our development partners John in the uK, with london’s only tram Laing as part of our ground-break­ system, rail connections from East ing Croydon Urban Regeneration Croydon Station that take you to Vehicle (CCURV) to take the lead central London in 15 minutes and in getting development rolling in Gatwick in 20 minutes, and new the Metropolitan Centre. Construc­ connections to the East London tion of a state-of-the-art Public Line/ London Overground at West Service Delivery Hub is already Croydon. underway. 1.1.3 Within this context, Croydon 1.1.6 With the completion of these Metropolitan Centre (CMC) in master plans, 2010 marks the particular offers huge potential for beginning of an exciting decade of positive change, with significant collaboration and delivery. capacity for thousands of new homes, businesses, commu­ Councillor Jason Perry nity facilities and a radically Cabinet Member for Planning, transformed public realm with Transport & Sustainability, new squares, streets and green Croydon Council 2 2.0 SETTING THE SCENE 3 2.1 THE BIGGER PICTURE 2.1.1 Croydon is a set for major City Vision and responding to the transformation. Existing and opportunities for growth set out in emerging Mayoral policy sup­ the Core Strategy, a set of coordi­ ports Croydon as a key place for nated technical masterplans laying delivering the potential of Outer down the framework for delivery London. Croydon Metropolitan in CMC have been developed in Centre (CMC) is classified as a partnership with public and private Strategic Office Location and an stakeholders. Opportunity Area in the London Plan, as well as a Strategic Outer 2.1.5 These masterplans include London Development Centre in the East Croydon Masterplan led by Draft Replacement London Plan. Studio Egret West and the West The existing Croydon UDP defines Croydon Masterplan led by East, a ‘Tall buildings Zone’ within the both of which create a welcom­ CMC. Croydon has also secured ing public realm and coordinate Growth Funding. development around croydon’s two major transport interchanges. 2.1.2 croydon’s emerging core College Green Masterplan led Strategy sets the aspiration for by Make and the Mid Croydon croydon to be london’s most Masterplan, introduce mixed use enterprising borough and defines to complement and enhance the it as a place of opportunity, a cmc’s cultural and learning offer. place to belong and a place And the Wellesley Road Master- with a sustainable future. The plan, led by OKRA, will unlock Core Strategy identifies Croydon pedestrian movement by trans­ Metropolitan Centre in particular forming the dual carriageway into as the place in the borough that a world-class urban space. Public provides the greatest opportunity realm improvements will extend to for positive change, and is seen Wandle Park, where a regenerated as having capacity for thousands green space will be re-connected of new jobs and homes, and to the metropolitan centre. includes options for enhancing the quality of the public realm, and 2.1.6 The masterplans are under­ providing enhanced facilities and pinned by a shared evidence base amenities. These will include new including Borough Wide and CMC educational, cultural, retail, busi­ Transport Strategies, and founded ness, leisure and community uses, in collaborative working between underpinned by robust green and partners and stakeholders. grey infrastructure. 2.1.7 It is intended that these mas­ 2.1.3 The mayor’s strategies support terplans will initially be adopted as croydon’s intentions for cmc to Interim Planning Guidance, and increase its residential population subsequently inform an Oppor­ as well as continue as the major tunity Area Planning Framework retail, office and regional transport (OAPF) for the CMC, which Croy­ interchange centre in South Lon­ don is preparing with the Greater don. London Authority and other key stakeholders. 2.1.4 Building on the themes set out in previous visionary work This document sets out the detail such as Vision 2020 and the Third of the West Croydon Masterplan.
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