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Croydon Local Plan 2018 Croydon Local Plan 2018 Croydon Local Plan 2018 A Development Plan Document forming part of the development plan for Croydon 27 February 2018 Published by Spatial Planning service London Borough of Croydon Bernard Weatherill House 8 Mint Walk Croydon CR0 1EA www.croydon.gov.uk/localplan [email protected] 020 8407 1385 All maps in this document reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey On behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and Database right 2018. Ordnance Survey Licence Number 100019257 The cover for this plan is designed Adam Nathaniel Furman (www.adamnathanielfurman.com). The inspiration and concept for the designs is captured in his words below. Croydon has the most astonishing variety of architectures from every period, brought together in an incredibly varied urban environment that has everything from the most space-age, optimistic highrises of the 1960s, to the most elegant of Edwardian parks, the most forward-looking suburbia of the 1930s, the sharpest glass skyscrapers of the 21st century, and the most elegant of the Victorian’s virtuosity with brick. Taking some of the many great examples, and organising them as building blocks in a miniature, condensed version of Croydon’s spatial diversity, I created Croydon Collage. A re-suable, re-combinable little iconic symbol of the borough that is as colourful, iconic and proud as Croydon itself rightly is of its brilliant past, exciting present, and beckoning future. Design and production: Phil Graham - www.philgraham.co.uk 03 04 Croydon Local Plan 2018 Foreword Councillor Alison Butler – Deputy Leader Statutory - Cabinet Member for Homes, Regeneration & Planning & Councillor Paul Scott – Chair of Planning Committee & Deputy Cabinet Member for Planning The Croydon Local Plan 2018 is the most important planning policy document The Croydon Local Plan 2018 also supports the Council’s Growth Zone, which is for the borough and provides an exciting and deliverable vision for Croydon up essential to the whole borough. Our Growth Zone will benefit from the Local Plan to 2036. It brings together the Strategic Policies with the Detailed Policies and allowing for development that underpins the Growth Zone and the plans for the Proposals. Our Local Plan has ‘Ambitious for Croydon’ enshrined in the overall infrastructure the Growth Zone will deliver with partners. vision, objectives and policies to ensure Croydon continues to be an attractive and thriving place for all who live, work and visit. Most importantly, the Local This Council believes in people focussed planning, making Croydon a better Plan will enable increasing the supply of homes through sustainable growth borough to live, work and visit from stepping out of your front door, going to (together with affordable homes), and the renewal and regeneration of the the local shop, community hall or school or visiting your Neighbourhood Centre, borough’s District Centres and the Croydon Opportunity Area. District Centres or Croydon Opportunity Area for restaurants, shops, work and entertainment. As part of our commitment to people focussed planning We are pleased that Croydon Local Plan 2018 has now been found sound by the the Croydon Local Plan 2018 has been developed in consultation with local Planning Inspectorate. The Local Plan demonstrates how sustainable growth of communities and stakeholders across the borough and we thank everyone who Croydon’s suburbs can increase the supply of new homes, including affordable has been involved in the making of the Croydon Local Plan 2018. We hope that housing whilst continuing to protect the borough’s important green spaces you continue to be engaged in planning in Croydon. and heritage and cultural assets that make the 16 Places of Croydon and our neighbourhoods so special and the valued places that they are. It shows how Croydon will evolve sustainably from 2016 to 2036 setting out the policies that will guide development and the sites that we expect to be developed to help meet the need for new homes, jobs, schools, healthcare, leisure and other essential facilities and infrastructure we need across the borough. 03 04 Croydon Local Plan 2018 How to use this Document The Croydon Local Plan 2018 is broken down into 12 sections with a Glossary and The Strategic Policies other Appendices at the back. Section 1, the introduction, sets out the context and purpose of the Croydon Local Plan. Section 2 sets the scene and looks at Strategic Policies start with the prefix ‘SP…’. These policies are broken down by the borough’s historical context, demographic factors, the regional context and a series of headings phrased as statements: ‘Where we want to be’, How we are drivers for change. Section 3 lays out Croydon’s overarching long term spatial going to get there’ (this is where the strategy and policies are set out), ‘What it vision, accompanying strategic objectives, the overarching Places of Croydon will look like’, and ‘Why we have taken this approach’. policy and the Key Diagram. Sections 4 to 10 set out the thematic strategies Where we want to be that will ensure delivery of the strategic objectives and realisation of the spatial vision. These sections start with a Strategic Policy and are then followed by a This looks at the key issues and priorities; it articulates the issues and set of more Detailed Policies that provide further details as to how the thematic strategic objectives needed to contribute to the delivery of the overall spatial strategies will be delivered. A guide to the Strategic Policies and the Detailed vision, Croydon’s Sustainable Community Strategy priorities and the desired Policies and how to use and interpret them can be found below. See below policy direction. for more information on how to use and interpret these sections. Section 11 shows what Strategic Policies and Detailed Policies will mean for the 16 Places How we are going to get there of Croydon, setting out the Places vision, summarising the opportunities and This sets out the proposed strategic policy for achieving the strategic objectives. constraints and the changes that can be expected to take place up to 2036. This These provide the strategic planning policies that provide the opportunity for the section also sets out Place Specific Policies and Detailed Proposals (sites that production of Neighbourhood Plans. This will enable communities to influence the the Croydon Local Plan allocates for development) for each Place. A guide to the planning of their Place, in conformity with Strategic Policies. Place-Specific Policies and the Detailed Proposals and how to use and interpret them can be found below. Finally Section 12 explains how the policies proposed What it will look like will be delivered. This is closely linked to the Infrastructure Delivery Plan, which This shows the spatial elements of the strategic policy on a map. in comprehensive detail outlines how infrastructure required to support the Strategic Policies will be delivered. This section also links to the Monitoring Why we have taken this approach Framework for the Croydon Local Plan 2018 to measure the effectiveness of Here we set out our reasoned justification for the policy citing evidence the policies. and rationale. 05 06 Croydon Local Plan 2018 The Detailed Policies Detailed Policies start with the prefix ‘DM…’. These policies are broken down by a series of headings that as follows: a. Strategic Objectives and related Croydon Local Plan strategic policies; b. Why we need this policy; c. The policy itself d. How the policy works; and e. Key supporting documents. The Place-specific policies (including the detailed proposals) For each Place of Croydon there is a vision, summarising the opportunities and constraints and the changes that can be expected to take place up to 2036. This is followed by a Place-specific policy (prefixed with ‘DM…’ for which the following information is provided: a. A description of the general character of the Place; b. The policy wording; c. A full description of how the policy works; and d. A list of all the detailed proposal sites in each place including the proposed use on each site. A guide to how the detailed proposals were identified can be found in Appendix 6 and a schedule containing further details of each site including indicative unit numbers and phasing can be found in Appendix 7. 05 06 Croydon Local Plan 2018 Contents Foreword Strategic policy 35 Policy SP3: Employment 36 How to use this Document Development in Croydon Metropolitan Centre, District and Local Centres 46 Table of Policies Development in Neighbourhood Centres 51 Map of the 16 Places of Croydon Development in Shopping Parades 55 A quick guide to which policies apply to which types of development Development in Restaurant Quarter Parades 59 Development in edge of centre and out of centre locations 62 1. Introduction 01 Expansion of industrial and warehousing premises in Strategic, Separated and 2. Setting the scene 03 Integrated Industrial Locations 67 Historical context 03 A Place to Belong 71 Croydon in 2011 04 6. Urban Design and Local Character 71 Croydon in the wider sub-region 05 Strategic policy 71 3. We are Croydon 09 Policy SP4: Urban Design and Local Character 72 Past Visions 09 Design and character 83 Imagine Croydon 09 Shop front design and security 102 We are Croydon 09 Advertisement hoardings 105 The Croydon Local Plan’s Spatial Vision 10 Refuse and recycling 108 Strategic Objectives 12 Public art 111 Policy SP1: The Places of Croydon 13 Tall and large buildings 113 Key Diagram 15 Promoting healthy communities 116 A Place of Opportunity 17 Views and Landmarks 119 Heritage assets and conservation 121 4. Homes 17 7. Community Facilities 127 Strategic policy 17 Strategic policy 127 Policy SP2: Homes 18 Policy SP5: Community Facilities 128 Housing choice for sustainable communities 27 Providing and protecting community facilities 133 Residential care and nursing homes 30 Supporting Selhurst Park as the home stadium of Crystal Palace Football Club 136 Vacant building credit 33 Protecting public houses 137 5.
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