APPENDIX 5: Upper Norwood Triangle Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan UPPER NORWOOD TRIANGLE CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL AND MANAGEMENT PLAN DRAFT SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT CROYDON COUNCIL ISSUE CONSERVATION AREA Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) DESIGNATION issued for adoption at full Council 24 March 2014 The Upper Norwood Triangle Conservation Area This document is available to view and download was designated in April 1989 online at: www.croydon.gov.uk/environment/conservation/ conservation-areas CONSERVATION AREA PUBLISHED BY GENERAL GUIDANCE Spatial Planning Service, Croydon Council Please read this document alongside the Zone B, 6 Floor Croydon Conservation Area General Guidance Bernard Weatherill House, SPD (adopted April 2013). This document is 8 Mint Walk available online at: Croydon CR0 1EA www.croydon.gov.uk/ www.croydon.gov.uk environment/conservation/conservation-areas Email: [email protected] Tel: 0208 4071385 CROYDON LOCAL PLAN The Croydon Local Plan and other IMAGE CREDITS Supplementary Planning Documents are available online at: Historic photographs supplied by the Croydon http://www.croydon.gov.uk/ Local Studies and Archives Centre unless other- planningandregeneration/framework/localplan/ wise specifi ed 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 2013 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 ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS 34 Appraisal and Management Plan? 8.1 Statutorily Listed Buildings 34 1.3 What is the Status of this Document? 03 8.2 Locally Listed Buildings 34 1.4 Community Involvement 03 8.3 Article 4 Directions 34 1.5 Designation Background 03 8.4 Building Regulations 34 1.6 Statement of Special Character 03 8.5 Archaeological Investigations 34 1.7 Streets within the Conservation Area 04 8.6 Planning Enforcement 34 8.7 Trees in Private Gardens 34 PART 1: APPRAISAL 05 9.0 DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES 35 2.0 CONTEXT 06 9.1 Demolition 35 2.1 Location and Setting 06 9.2 New Development 35 2.2 Historic Development 08 9.3 Conversion of properties 36 2.3 Archaeological Signifi cance 13 9.4 Extensions 36 9.5 Window Replacement 37 3.0 TOWNSCAPE CHARACTER 14 9.6 Brick Walls 37 3.1 Layout and Plan Form 14 9.7 Historic Features 37 3.2 Density and Land Uses 14 9.8 Shopfront Design and Signage 37 3.3 Building Height and Massing 15 9.9 Development Affecting the 38 3.4 Topography and Views 16 Conservation Area’s Setting 4.0 STREETSCAPE CHARACTER 18 10.0 ENHANCEMENT 39 4.1 Public Realm and Open Space 18 10.1 Building Maintenance 39 4.2 Permeability 19 10.2 Repair, Restoration and Reinstatement 39 4.3 Street Furniture 19 of Architectural Features 4.4 Greenery and Trees 20 10.3 Energy Effi ciency Improvements 39 10.4 Shopfront Improvements 39 5.0 ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER 21 10.5 Conservation Area Signage 40 5.1 General Architectural Character 21 10.6 Commemoriative Plaques 40 5.2 Shopfronts 21 10.7 Public Realm Improvements 40 5.3 Historic and Architectural 23 10.8 Street Lighting 40 Signifi cance of Buildings 5.4 Key Architectural Features and 23 11.0 APPENDIX 42 Building Materials 11.1 Websites and Other Relevant 42 Information 6.0 CHARACTER AREAS 26 11.2 Contacts 43 6.1 Westow Street 26 6.2 Westow Hill (including part of 27 Central Hill) 6.3 Church Road 28 6.4 St Aubyn’s Road 29 6.5 Carberry Road, Child’s Lane and 29 Stoney Lane 6.6 Ovett, Telford and Brunel Closes 29 6.7 Paddock Gardens 30 6.8 Haynes Lane 30 6.9 Coxwell Road, Gatestone Road 30 and Bedwardine Road 7.0 CONDITION AND THREATS 31 7.1 General Condition 31 7.2 Buildings at Risk 31 7.3 Key Threats and Negative 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 Upper Norwood The UpperTriangle Norwood Conservation Triangle Conservation Area Area Old Coulsdon Other conservationOther Conservation areas in Croydon Areas Map 1. The location of the Upper Norwood Triangle Conservation Area and other conservation areas in Croydon INTRODUCTION 1 N LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY KEY Boundary of the Upper Norwood Triangle Conservation Area Borough boundary Above: Map 2. The boundary of the Upper Norwood Triangle Conservation Area Previous Page: Terraced buildings on Westow Street 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 WHAT IS A the conservation area are CONSERVATION AREA? assessed. 1.1.1 A conservation area is an area of special architectural or 1.3.2 All planning applications for historic interest, the character sites within the Upper Norwood and appearance of which it Triangle Conservation Area is desirable to preserve or should be informed by both this enhance. Please see section SPD and the Croydon 1.3 of Croydon’s Conservation Conservation Area General Area General Guidance SPD Guidance SPD. for further information. 1.4 COMMUNITY 1.2 WHAT IS A CONSERVA- INVOLVEMENT TION AREA APPRAISAL AND 1.4.1 A meeting with MANAGEMENT PLAN? representatives of the Crystal Looking west along Westow Hill 1.2.1 A Conservation Area Palace Community Association Appraisal and Management and the North Croydon Plan is a document produced Conservation Area Advisory to supplement Croydon’s Local Panel (see section 1.5 of the Plan, the London Plan, and Conservation Area General Croydon’s Conservation Area Guidance SPD) was held General Guidance SPD. to inform the production of this document prior to public 1.2.2 An Appraisal defi nes the consultation, which ran from principal qualities that constitute 2 September - 14 October the conservation area’s special 2013. The draft document was character and identifi es threats available to view and download to this character. It is important on the Council’s website and to note that assessments hard copies were available from made in this document are local libraries. Site notices were non-exhaustive, and further placed in the conservation area, elements of architectural letters were sent to all properties or historic interest may be located within its boundary, present. A Management Plan an article was published in the addresses the issues raised Croydon Guardian and two Church of St Augustine and St Helen in the Appraisal and provides area-specifi c development guidelines to supplement those provided in Croydon’s Conservation Area General Guidance SPD; potential enhancement schemes are also explored. For further information please see section 1.5 of the Conservation Area General Guidance SPD. 1.3 WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THIS DOCUMENT? 1.3.1 This document is a Supple- mentary Planning Document (SPD) to the Croydon Local Plan: Strategic Policies (adopted April 2013) and is a material consideration when Terraced houses on St Aubyn’s Road with the Crystal Palace radio mast in the planning applications affecting background 3 events were held at the Central Croydon Library and the Living Water Satisfi es Cafe in Crystal Palace on 23 and 26 September respectively. 1.4.2 Following the consultation all responses were considered and where appropriate, the document was amended prior to a recommendation to full Council for adoption. 1.5 DESIGNATION BACKGROUND 1.5.1 Following a growing interest in the local history of the Crystal Palace area, a proposal and petition for the designation of the Upper Norwood Triangle Conservation Area was View south down Westow street towards the spire of St Augustine and St Helen’s Church, painted submitted to the Council in 1988 by local artist Audrey Hammond - although painted several decades ago, this image captures the by the Crystal Palace Triangle street’s character that is preserved today (reproduced with kind permission of the artist) Community Association. The Upper Norwood Triangle character is defi ned by its fi ne • St Aubyn’s Road (all) Conservation Area was urban grain, varied scale of • Carberry Road (all) designated in April 1989. buildings and historic buildings • Child’s Lane (all) of high architectural quality and • Stoney Lane (all) 1.6 STATEMENT OF SPECIAL detailing. A high proportion of • Ovett, Telford and Brunel CHARACTER the buildings within the area Closes (all) 1.6.1 The Upper Norwood are either locally listed or high • Paddock Gardens (all) Triangle Conservation Area quality unlisted historic buildings • Haynes Lane (all) is a historic settlement of that make a positive contribution • Coxwell Road (all) late 18th century origins, towards its special character. • Gatestone Road (all) which developed due to its The Triangle is formed by • Bedwardine Road (part) geographically signifi cant three streets, Westow Street, location at the meeting point of Westow Hill and Church Road. 1.7.2 Section 6 of this document several parishes. The modest The area inside the Triangle, discusses each street in the 1-2 storey early 19th century largely consisting of a series of order above. buildings that survive now sit smaller-scale interconnected alongside 3-4 storey later 19th streets, many of which were laid 1.7.3 Throughout this document century buildings. The latter out in the later 20th century, has the area contained within the were constructed following the a more intimate character, with Triangle, including Stoney arrival of the Crystal Palace residential and light industrial Lane, Ovett, Telford and Brunel in 1851, which, along with uses. Closes, Paddock Gardens and the arrival of the railways, Victory Place is often referred to stimulated the development 1.7 STREETS WITHIN THE as the ‘inner Triangle’.