Croydon Local Plan: Detailed Policies and Proposals Detailed Policies (Preferred and Alternative Options) October 2013 1 1 Contents Table of Policies .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Preparing the Croydon Local Plan – Detailed Policies and Proposals .......................................................................................................... 6 About the Preferred and Alternative Options ................................................................................................................................................. 7 2. Using and commenting on this document ............................................................................................................................................ 8 Using this document ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Commenting on this document ...................................................................................................................................................................... 8 3. Strategic Context ................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 We are Croydon .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Croydon Local Plan’s spatial vision ............................................................................................................................................................. 11 Strategic Objectives .................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 4. Homes ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 Private and communal outdoor amenity space for new residential development ........................................................................................ 14 Housing choice for sustainable communities............................................................................................................................................... 22 Development on garden land ...................................................................................................................................................................... 30 Residential annexes .................................................................................................................................................................................... 33 Commuted sums for provision of affordable homes .................................................................................................................................... 36 5. Employment ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 41 Development in Croydon Metropolitan Centre, District and Local Centres .................................................................................................. 41 Development in Shopping Parades ............................................................................................................................................................. 49 Development in Restaurant Quarter Parades.............................................................................................................................................. 53 Development in edge of centre and out of centre locations ......................................................................................................................... 56 Expansion of industrial and warehousing premises in Strategic and Separated Industrial Locations .......................................................... 61 6. Urban Design and Local Character ...................................................................................................................................................... 63 Design and character .................................................................................................................................................................................. 63 Shop front design and security .................................................................................................................................................................... 73 Refuse and recycling ................................................................................................................................................................................... 76 Public art ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 79 Tall and large buildings ............................................................................................................................................................................... 82 Views and Landmarks ................................................................................................................................................................................. 86 Heritage assets and conservation ............................................................................................................................................................... 90 1 Wooded hillsides ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 99 7. Community Facilities ........................................................................................................................................................................... 101 Providing and protecting community facilities ............................................................................................................................................ 101 8. Environment and Climate Change ..................................................................................................................................................... 104 Development and construction .................................................................................................................................................................. 104 Land contamination ................................................................................................................................................................................... 108 9. Green Grid ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 111 Metropolitan Green Belt, Metropolitan Open Land and Local Green Spaces ............................................................................................ 111 Biodiversity ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 117 Trees ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 121 Productive landscapes .............................................................................................................................................................................. 124 Other open land and open space in education use ................................................................................................................................... 126 Open space in new development .............................................................................................................................................................. 128 10. Transport ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 129 Highway safety and reducing congestion .................................................................................................................................................. 129 Parking in new development ..................................................................................................................................................................... 132 Temporary car parks ................................................................................................................................................................................. 136 11. The Places of Croydon ....................................................................................................................................................................