CHURCH ROAD CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL AND MANAGEMENT PLAN SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT CROYDON COUNCIL ISSUE CONSERVATION AREA Draft Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) DESIGNATION endorsed for adoption by Cabinet 22 June 2015 and adopted as a Supplementary Planning The Church Road Conservation Area was originally Document at full Council 13 July 2015. designated in January 1974. It was later extended in February 1982, March 1986, August 1992, October This document is available to view and download 2008, and July 2015. online at: www.croydon.gov.uk/caamps CONSERVATION AREA PUBLISHED BY GENERAL GUIDANCE CROYDON COUNCIL Bernard Weatherill House Please read this document alongside the 8 Mint Walk Croydon Conservation Area General Guidance Croydon CR0 1EA document, available online at: www.croydon.gov.uk www.croydon.gov.uk/conservation Other supplementary planning documents are Email: [email protected] also available online via the Croydon Council Tel: 0208 4071385 website Planning pages: http://www.croydon.gov.uk/ planningandregeneration IMAGE CREDITS Historic photographs supplied by the Croydon CROYDON LOCAL PLAN Local Studies and Archives Centre unless other- wise specified The Croydon Local Plan and other Supplementary Planning Documents are All other photographs supplied by London Borough available online at: of Croydon. http://www.croydon.gov.uk/ planningandregeneration/framework/localplan/ 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: © Copyright Getmapping plc 2013 © Croydon Council 2015 CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 01 PART 2: MANAGEMENT PLAN 45 1.1 What is a Conservation Area? 03 1.2 What is a Conservation Area 03 8.0 DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES 46 Appraisal and Management Plan? 8.1 Demolition 46 1.3 What is this Document’s Status? 03 8.2 New Development 46 1.4 Community Involvement 03 8.3 Development Affecting the 47 1.5 Designation Background 03 Conservation Area’s Setting 1.6 Statement of Special Character 04 8.4 Property Conversion 47 1.7 Character Areas 04 8.5 Extensions 47 8.6 Window Replacement 48 PART 1: APPRAISAL 07 8.7 Porches 48 8.8 Cladding, Rendering or Painting 48 2.0 CONTEXT 07 of Walls 2.1 Location, Topography and Setting 07 8.9 Front Gardens and Boundary 48 2.2 Historic Development 09 Treatments 2.3 Archaeological Significance 16 8.10 External Fixtures 49 8.11 Advertising and Signage 49 3.0 TOWNSCAPE CHARACTER 17 8.12 Public Realm Works 49 3.1 Layout and Plan Form 17 8.13 Trees in Private Gardens 49 3.2 Density and Land Uses 19 3.3 Building Heights and Massing 19 3.4 Key Views 21 9.0 ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS 49 9.1 Statutory Listed Buildings 49 4.0 STREETSCAPE CHARACTER 23 9.2 Locally Listed Buildings 49 4.1 Public Realm and Open Space 23 9.3 Planning Enforcement 49 4.2 Boundary Treatments 23 9.4 Article 4 Directions 50 4.3 Street Furniture 24 9.5 Building Regulations 50 4.4 Greenery and Trees 25 5.0 ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER 26 10.0 MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND 51 5.1 General Architectural Character 26 IMPROVEMENTS 51 5.2 Historic and Architectural 28 10.1 Maintenance and Repair 51 Significance of Buildings 10.2 Restoring and Re-Instating Features 51 5.3 Key Architectural Features and 30 10.3 Public Realm Improvements 51 Materials 10.4 Energy Efficiency Improvements 51 6.0 CHARACTER AREA DESCRIPTIONS 33 APPENDIX 1: OTHER RELEVANT 52 6.1 Church Road Character Area 33 INFORMATION 6.2 Beaulieu Heights Character Area 35 6.3 Fox Hill Character Area 37 APPENDIX 2: CONTACTS 53 6.4 Sylvan Hill Character Area 39 6.5 Grange Hill Character Area 41 7.0 CONDITION AND THREATS 42 7.1 Current Condition 42 7.2 Key Threats and Negative Issues 42 N KEY The Church Road Conservation Area Other Conservation Areas in Croydon Map 1: The location of the Church Road Conservation Area and other Conservation Areas in Croydon INTRODUCTION The Church Road Conservation Area Other Conservation Areas in Croydon 1 N Above: Map 2: The boundary of the Church Road Conservation Area Previous Page: Numbers 140-142 Church Road, with plaque commemorating Lord FitzRoy 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 WHAT IS A 1.3 WHAT IS THE STATUS OF Conservation Area should be CONSERVATION AREA? THIS DOCUMENT? informed by both this SPD and 1.1.1 A conservation area is an 1.3.1 This document is a Supple- the Croydon Conservation Area area of special architectural or mentary Planning Document General Guidance SPD. historic interest, the character (SPD) to the Croydon Local and appearance of which it Plan: Strategic Policies 1.4 COMMUNITY is desirable to preserve or (adopted April 2013) and is a INVOLVEMENT enhance. Please see section material consideration when 1.4.1 The North Croydon Conser- 1.3 of Croydon’s Conservation planning applications affecting vation Area Advisory Panel (see Area General Guidance SPD the conservation area are section 1.4 of the Conservation for further information. assessed. Area General Guidance SPD), supplied material to inform this 1.2 WHAT IS A CONSERVA- 1.3.2 All planning applications for Church Road Conservation TION AREA APPRAISAL AND sites within the Church Road Area Appraisal and Manage- MANAGEMENT PLAN? 1.2.1 A Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan is a document produced EXTENDED to supplement Croydon’s N FEBRUARY 1982 Local Plan, the London Plan, and Croydon’s Conservation Area General Guidance SPD (adopted April 2013). 1.2.2 This document is structured in two parts, an Appraisal of the conservation area and an associated Management Plan. The Appraisal defines the principal qualities that constitute the conservation EXTENDED area’s special character JULY 2015 and identifies threats to this EXTENDED character. The Appraisal is not MARCH 1986 necessarily exhaustive and other elements of architectural or historic interest may be present within the area to those described in this document. 1.2.3 The Management Plan addresses issues raised in EXTENDED the Appraisal and provides AUGUST 1992 area-specific development and maintenance guidelines to EXTENDED supplement those provided in OCTOBER 2008 Croydon’s Conservation Area General Guidance SPD. Poten- tial enhancement of the area is also considered. For further EXTENDED information please see section JULY 2015 1.4 of the Conservation Area General Guidance SPD. EXTENDED JULY 2015 Map 3: Boundary extensions to the Church Road Conservation Area 3 ment Plan prior to formal the area in 1854 and railways consultation. resulted in the development of high-class suburban Victorian 1.4.2 Public consultation on this housing along Church Road, document ran from 26 January helping to establish the area - 9 March. The Church Road as a fashionable Victorian Conservation Area Appraisal neighbourhood for the wealthy. and Management Plan was This conservation area also available to view and download contains two statutory listed on the Council’s website and Victorian churches, All Saints hard copies were available from Beulah Hill (Grade II) and St local libraries. Site notices were John the Evangelist (Grade II*), placed in the conservation area, which is also indicative of the letters were sent to all proper- increasing eminence of the area ties located within its boundary, throughout the 19th century. and an article was published in the Croydon Guardian. A public 1.6.2 Today the conservation event and exhibition was held area’s special character is at the Living Water Satisfies further enriched by the mature Cafe in Crystal Palace on 12 landscaping and many trees February 2015. present. The conservation area also has a very spacious 1.4.3 Following the consulta- character, largely as a result tion period, all responses of the generous plot layout, were considered and, where but also enhanced by the long appropriate, the document was views available to the east, amended prior to a recom- south and west as a result of mendation to full Council for the area’s dramatic topography. adoption. 1.7 CHARACTER AREAS 1.5 DESIGNATION 1.7.1 This appraisal identifies BACKGROUND five character areas within 1.5.1 The Church Road Conser- the Church Road Conserva- vation Area was originally tion Area, the boundaries of designated in January 1974 due which are shown on Map 4. its considerable architectural The character areas are also interest, strong historical associ- referred to in Sections 3, 4 ations and the risks posed to the and 5 of this document, with area’s character as a result of further analysis of their distinc- redevelopment pressures. The tive characteristics provided in conservation area boundary has Section 6. since been extended on several occasions (please see Map 3 on 1.7.2 The five character areas p.3). identified in this Appraisal demonstrate that there is 1.6 STATEMENT OF SPECIAL variety in character across CHARACTER the conservation area. This 1.6.1 The Church Road Conser- is largely due to the different vation Area is characterised by phases of development of the the concentration of high-quality area. Factors such as the high Victorian buildings, many of quality Victorian architecture, which are statutory or locally predominately generous plot listed. Although the area was layout and mature landscaping beginning to develop in the first help to unite the conservation half of the 19th Century, the area’s character as a whole. arrival of The Crystal Palace to 4 A. N C. D. E. B. A. Church Road Character Area B. Beaulieu Heights Character Area C. Fox Hill Character Area D. Sylvan Hill Character Area E. Grange Hill Character Area Map 4: Character Areas in the Church Road Conservation Area 5 APPRAISAL 6 2.0 CONTEXT This Appraisal 2.1 LOCATION, TOPOGRAPHY conservation area) to South examines the AND SETTING Norwood to the south-east and 2.1.1 The Church Road Thornton Heath to the south- characteristics of Conservation Area is located west.