ADDINGTON VILLAGE CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL AND MANAGEMENT PLAN SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT CROYDONi COUNCIL CONTENTS ISSUE Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) endorsed for adoption by Cabinet on XXXX and adopted as a SPD at full PART 1: INTRODUCTION PART 2: MANAGEMENT PLAN Council on XXXX. 1.1 What is a Conservation Area? 02 7.0 ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS 34 This document is available to view and download online at: 1.2 What is a Conservation Area 02 7.1 Statutorily Listed Buildings and Locally 34 www.croydon.gov.uk/environment/conservation/ Appraisal and Management Plan? 02 Listed Buildings conservationareas 1.3 What is the document’s status? 02 7.2 Registered Park and Garden: 34 1.4 Community Involvement 02 Addington Palace PUBLISHED BY 1.5 Designation Background 02 7.3 Archaeological Priority Area 34 CROYDON COUNCIL 1.6 Statement of Special Character 04 7.4 Trees in Conservation Areas and TPOs 34 Bernard Weatherill House 1.7 Character Areas 04 7.5 Green Belt 34 8 Mint Walk 7.6 Nature Conservation 34 Croydon CR0 1EA www.croydon.gov.uk 8.0 DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES 35 Email: [email protected] PART 1: APPRAISAL 8.1 Use 35 Tel: 020 4071385 8.2 Demolition 35 2.0 CONTEXT 06 8.3 New Development Affecting the 35 IMAGE CREDITS 2.1 Location, Topography & Setting 06 Conservation Area’s Setting Historic photographs supplied by the Croydon Local Studies 2.2 Historic Development 07 8.4 Extensions 36 and Archives Centre unless otherwise specified. 2.3 Archaeological Significance 12 8.5 Window Replacement 36 8.6 Doors 36 All other photographs supplied by London Borough of Croydon. 3.0 TOWNSCAPE CHARACTER 12 8.7 Porches 36 3.1 Layout and Plan Form 12 8.8 Cladding, Rendering or 37 Maps reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on 3.2 Land Uses 17 Painting of Walls behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and database right 2019. 3.3 Form, Building, Height and Massing 17 8.9 Boundary Treatments 37 Ordnance Survey Licence Number 100019257, courtesy of 3.4 Key Views and Landmarks 18 8.10 Forestdale Area 37 Croydon Council 8.11 Trees and Parkland 37 4.0 STREETSCAPE CHARACTER 20 8.12 Gardens and Public Spaces 37 Aerial photography: ‘Cities Revealed’ aerial photography © 4.1 Greenery, Trees and Open Space 20 4.2 Public Realm 22 9.0 ALTERATIONS & ENHANCEMENT 37 The GeoInformation Group’ 2019 4.3 Boundary Treatments 23 9.1 Maintenance 38 9.2 Enhancements to Addington 38 5.0 ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER 24 Village Character Area CONSERVATION AREA GENERAL GUIDANCE 5.1 General Architectural Character 24 9.3 Enhancements to Palace and 38 Please read this document alongside the Croydon 5.2 Historic and Architectural 24 Parkland Character Area Conservation Area General Guidance document, available Significance of Buildings 9.4 Plaques for Historic Buildings 39 online at: www.croydon.gov.uk/environment/conservation 5.3 Key Architectural Features and 25 9.5 Conservation Area Signage 39 Building Materials 9.6 Public Realm Improvements 39 5.4 Building Types 25 CROYDON LOCAL PLAN 6.0 CONDITION AND THREATS 31 PART 3: APPENDIX 40 The Croydon Local Plan and other Supplementary Planning 6.1 General Condition 31 10.0 Appendix 1 40 Documents are available online at: 6.2 Key Threats and Negative Issues 31 10.1 Appendix 2 41 http://www.croydon.gov.uk/planningandregeneration/ framework/localplan/ © Croydon Council 2019 ii iii N Upper Norwood Norbury Selhurst Thornton Heath Woodside Broad Green Monks Orchard Addiscombe Croydon Shirley Addington Village South Croydon New Addington Selsdon Purley Sanderstead Kenley Coulsdon Key: Addington Village Conservation Area Other Conservation Areas Old Coulsdon INTRODUCTION Map 1. The location of the Addington Village Conservation Area and other Conservation Areas in Croydon. iv 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Croydon Local Plan 2018 and is the stables, stable lodge, WHAT IS A a material consideration when south lodge, historic parkland Areas added January 2020 CONSERVATION AREA? assessing planning between the Palace and village Area removed January 2020 1.1.1 A conservation area is an applications that affect the (now golf course and public Conservation Area Boundary area of special architectural or conservation area. park) and Roxton Gardens, and historic interest, the character to remove numbers 63-73 (odd) and appearance of which it 1.3.2 All planning applications for and 52-54 (even) Boundary is desirable to preserve or sites within the Conservation Way in January 2020 (Map 2). enhance. Area should be informed by the adopted document and the Map 3 shows some of the key 1.2 Croydon Conservation Area buildings and areas within the WHAT IS A General Guidance SPD. conservation area. CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL AND 1.4 MANAGEMENT PLAN? COMMUNITY 1.2.1 A Conservation Area INVOLVEMENT Appraisal and Management 1.4.1 The Addington Village Plan is a document produced Residents’ Association and to supplement Croydon’s Local Mid Croydon Conservation Plan, the London Plan, and Area Advisory Panel supplied Croydon’s Conservation Area material to inform a draft General Guidance SPD. Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan prior to 1.2.2 An Appraisal defines public consultation. the principal qualities that constitute the conservation 1.4.2 Public consultation was area’s special character, also undertaken between 18 identifying threats to this April and 30 May 2019. A character. It is important to note consultation event was held Fig. 1: Church and Farmhouse Cottages Map 2: Addington Village Conservation Area Boundary showing previous boundary amendments that assessments made in this at Addington Church Hall on 9 Buildings document are non-exhaustive, May 2019. The draft document Green Space and further elements of was available to view on the Historic Farms architectural or historic interest Council’s website and social Roads may be present. media (see Appendix) and hard Tram Old Vicarage Spout Hill Addington copies available from local House Lion Cricket 1.2.3 A Management Plan libraries. Lodges Ground addresses the issues raised in the Appraisal and provides An article was published in Your Addington Palace Village Green Former Upper Farm area-specific development Croydon to inform residents Golf Course Farm Cottage St. Mary’s Church The Forge guidelines to supplement and invite comment. Following Flint Cottages Home Former those provided in Croydon’s the consultation, all public Farm Post Oce Kent Gate Way The Cricketer’s Fig. 2: Addington Palace Inn Conservation Area General responses were considered Addington Palace Former Lower House Guidance SPD; potential and, where appropriate, the Farm enhancement schemes are document amended prior to a also explored. For further recommendation to full Council information please see section for adoption Former Stables, Addington Park 1.5 of the Conservation Area now Golf Clubhouse Lodge Lane Stable Tram Link General Guidance SPD. 1.5 Lodge Gravel Hill DESIGNATION South Lodge 1.3 BACKGROUND WHAT IS THE DOCUMENT’S 1.5.1 Addington Village STATUS? Conservation Area was 1.3.1 This document has been designated in July 1973. The adopted as a Supplementary boundary was extended to Planning Document (SPD) to include Addington Palace, Fig. 3: Addington Park Map 3: Key Buildings and Areas in Addington 2 3 1.6 Addington Park and Addington cottages, farm and service STATEMENT OF Palace Golf Course form the buildings, and village amenities, SPECIAL CHARACTER primary parkland setting to now primarily in residential use. 1.6.1 The conservation area the Palace and village. The It has a spacious character with is based around the historic parkland also forms part of a large plots, mature vegetation village, manor house and wider green buffer between and grass verges. associated parkland of the manor and neighbouring Addington Village, retaining all suburban development which B) Palace and Parkland the main constituent elements is the backdrop to many views Character Area of a manorial estate. Dating and enhances Addington’s 1.7.3 The Palace and Parkland back at least to Anglo-Saxon distinct rural character. Character Area includes Grade times, it is one of the borough’s II* listed Addington Palace and oldest settlements. Links to 1.7 its primary Grade II registered royalty and the Archbishops CHARACTER AREAS parkland setting, both dating to of Canterbury provide 1.7.1 The conservation area the 18th Century. Landscaped a prestigious lineage of contains two distinct character by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown, ownership, which areas (see Map 4): the Parkland’s naturalistic is reflected in the surviving (A) Village design survives. This provides architecture of both the manor (B) Palace and Parkland an open setting to the house and village buildings, as substantial manor house and its well as the quality and extent of A) Village Character Area associated lodge buildings. associated parkland. 1.7.2 The Village Character Area marks the extent of the 1.6.2 The village church is set at historic village of Addington. It is the centre of a cluster of historic focussed primarily along buildings. The diversity in Addington Village Road, with building date and architectural the Grade I listed church of style show how the manor St.Mary the Blessed Virgin at developed and the varied status its heart. The buildings include and function of each building. high status residences and farmsteads, farmworker’s Palace and Parkland Village APPRAISAL Map 4: Character areas in the Addington Village Conservation Area. 4 5 The following 2.0 CONTEXT Appraisal defines the 2.1 London Borough of Bromley, chalk geology, and provides tradition endured throughout 2.2.5 The map shows Addington characteristics that LOCATION, TOPOGRAPHY marked in yellow on Map 5. long views across the valley. the centuries, being recorded in Place to the north of the church, make the Addington & SETTING Addington Palace and its at least the 13th, 17th and 18th and accessed from Spout Hill.