APPENDIX 3: Norwood Grove Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan NORWOOD GROVE 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 Norwood Grove Conservation Area was This document is available to view and download designated on 10 October 2008 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 Unsuccessful attempts have been made to trace copyright holders of the 1980s photo of 16-32 Arnull’s Road 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 8.0 DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES 34 1.1 What is a Conservation Area? 03 8.1 Demolition 34 1.2 What is a Conservation Area 03 8.2 New Development 34 Appraisal and Management Plan? 8.3 Extensions 35 1.3 What is this Document’s Status? 03 8.4 Development Affecting Setting of the 1.4 Community Involvement 03 Conservation Area’s Setting 35 1.5 Designation Background 03 8.5 Window Replacement 35 1.6 Statement of Special Character 03 8.6 Cladding, Rendering or Painting 1.7 Character Areas 04 of Walls 35 8.7 Front Gardens 35 PART 1: APPRAISAL 05 9.0 ENHANCEMENT 36 2.0 CONTEXT 06 9.1 Norwood Grove Park 36 2.1 Location and Setting 06 9.2 Norwood Grove Mansion 36 2.2 Historic Development 08 9.3 Maintenance of Privately Owned 36 2.3 Archaeological Signifi cance 14 Properties 36 9.4 Repairing, Restoring and Re-instating 36 3.0 TOWNSCAPE CHARACTER 15 Features 3.1 Layout and Plan Form 15 9.5 Plaques for Historic Buildings 36 3.2 Density and Land Uses 17 9.6 Conservation Area Signage 36 3.3 Building Height and Massing 17 9.7 Public Realm Improvements 36 3.4 Topography and Views 18 9.8 Street Trees 36 4.0 STREETSCAPE CHARACTER 20 10.0 APPENDIX 37 4.1 Permeability 20 11.1 Websites and Other Relevant 37 4.2 Public Realm and Open Space 20 Information 4.3 Boundary Treatments 21 11.2 Contacts 38 4.4 Street Furniture 22 4.4 Greenery and Trees 22 5.0 ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER 24 5.1 General Architectural Character 24 5.2 Key Architectural Features and 26 Building Materials 5.3 Historic and Architectural 28 Signifi cance of Buildings 6.0 CONDITION AND THREATS 29 6.1 General Condition 29 6.2 Key Threats 29 PART 2: MANAGEMENT PLAN 31 7.0 ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS 32 7.1 Statutorily Listed Buildings 32 7.2 Locally Listed Buildings 32 7.3 Registered Park and Garden: 32 Norwood Grove 32 7.4 Article 4 Directions 32 7.5 Building Regulations 32 7.6 Energy Effi ciency 32 7.7 Archeological Investigations 32 7.8 Planning Enforcement 32 7.9 Trees in Private Gardens 33 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 Norwood Grove Conservation Area TheOther Norwood Conservation Grove Conservation Areas Area Old Coulsdon Other conservation areas in Croydon Map 1. The location of the Norwood Grove Conservation Area and other conservation areas in Croydon INTRODUCTION 1 N LONDON BOROUGH OF LAMBETH Streatham Common The Rookery KEY Conservation area boundary Borough boundary LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON Above: Map 2. The boundary of the Norwood Grove Conservation Area Previous Page: Norwood Grove Mansion, also known locally as the White House 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 WHAT IS A CONSERVATION AREA? 1.1.1 A conservation area is an area of special architectural or historic interest, the character and appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance. Please see section 1.3 of Croydon’s Conservation Area General Guidance SPD for further information. 1.2 WHAT IS A CONSERVA- TION AREA APPRAISAL AND MANAGEMENT PLAN? 1.2.1 A Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan is a document produced to supplement Croydon’s Local Plan, the London Plan, and Croydon’s Conservation Area The curve in the road at the southern tip of Ryecroft Road with high quality General Guidance SPD. buildings, trees and grass verges contributing to the high quality streetscape 1.2.2 An Appraisal defi nes the informed by both this SPD and and where appropriate, the principal qualities that constitute the Croydon Conservation Area document was amended prior the conservation area’s special General Guidance SPD. to a recommendation to full character and identifi es threats Council for adoption. to this character. A Manage- 1.4 COMMUNITY ment Plan addresses the issues INVOLVEMENT 1.5 DESIGNATION raised in the Appraisal and 1.4.1 The North Croydon BACKGROUND provides area-specifi c develop- Conservation Area Advisory 1.5.1 The Norwood Grove ment guidelines to supplement Panel (see section 1.5 of the Conservation Area was those provided in Croydon’s Conservation Area General designated in October 2008 as Conservation Area General Guidance SPD) was consulted part of the 2007-2008 Borough- Guidance SPD; potential ideas on the production of this wide review of conservation for enhancement are also document prior to public areas and local areas of special explored. For further informa- consultation, which ran from character (LASCs). tion please see section 1.5 of 2 September to 14 October the Conservation Area General 2013. The draft document was 1.6 STATEMENT OF SPECIAL Guidance SPD. available to view and download CHARACTER on the Council’s website and 1.6.1 The Norwood Grove 1.3 WHAT IS THE STATUS OF hard copies were available from Conservation Area is focussed THIS DOCUMENT? local libraries. Site notices were around the Grade II listed 1.3.1 This document is a Supple- placed in the conservation area, Norwood Grove Mansion mentary Planning Document letters were sent to all proper- and its surrounding formally (SPD) to the Croydon Local ties located within its boundary, landscaped Norwood Grove Plan: Strategic Policies an article was published in Park. Other buildings of historic (adopted April 2013) and is a the Croydon Guardian and and architectural interest in the material consideration when two events were held at the conservation area include the planning applications affecting Central Croydon Library and pocket of Georgian and Victo- the conservation area are the Living Water Satisfi es Cafe rian houses located on Arnull’s assessed. in Crystal Palace on 23 and 26 Road and Gibson’s Hill, the September respectively. 18th century villa that was later 1.3.2 All planning applications for adapted to form St Joseph’s sites within the Norwood Grove 1.4.2 Following the consultation College, and other Victorian Conservation Area should be all responses were considered and Edwardian buildings. 3 Almost all other buildings in the 1.7 CHARACTER AREAS 2. ST JOSEPH’S COLLEGE Norwood Grove Conservation 1.7.1 This Appraisal identifi es 1.7.4 This character area Area are houses dating from the three discernible character comprises Arnull’s Road, the interwar and post war periods. areas in the Norwood Grove north side of Gibson’s Hill, The development patterns of Conservation Area: including the Gibson’s Lodge this later phase of development 1. Norwood Grove Nursing Home and sections of refl ects former fi eld boundaries. 2. St Joseph’s College Beulah Hill and Crown Lane. 3. Ryecroft Road Georgian and Victorian houses 1.6.2 The topography and aspect on Arnull’s Road are the of the area provide panoramic 1. NORWOOD GROVE remnants of the historic village and long views to the west, 1.7.2 This character area of Copgate (see section 2.2) south and east. The general comprises the Norwood Grove quality of the streetscape is Mansion and Park, including 3. RYECROFT ROAD high, reinforced by the recre- the Lodge on Copgate Path, 1.7.5 This character area contains ational value of Norwood Grove The Cottage and Hollies residential development on Park. The area has a suburban Close. Copgate Path leads Ryecroft Road, Jerviston residential character, with to Streatham Common and Gardens and the south side generously spaced develop- the Rookery in the Borough of Crown Lane, dating from ment in a well planted setting. of Lambeth to the west with the Edwardian, Inter-War and Nettlefold Field to the east. Post-War periods. N Streatham Common 3. 2. The Rookery Norwood Grove Park1. CHARACTER AREAS 1. Norwood Grove 2. St Joseph’s College 3. Ryecroft Road Map 3. Character Areas in the Norwood Grove Conservation Area 4 APPRAISAL 5 The following 2.0 CONTEXT Appraisal defi nes the 2.1 LOCATION AND SETTING characteristics make 2.1.1 The Norwood Grove Conser- vation Area is located in Norbury the Norwood Grove Ward in the north of the Croydon Conservation Area borough at the meeting point with the London Borough of special, including Lambeth.