APPENDIX 1: Beulah Hill Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan (draft supplementary planning document) BEULAH HILL CONSERVATION AREA APPRAISAL AND MANAGEMENT PLAN DRAFT SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING DOCUMENT CROYDON COUNCIL ISSUE CONSERVATION AREA Draft Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) DESIGNATION issued for public consultation 26 January - 9 March 2015. The Beulah Hill Conservation Area was designated on 10 December 2008. This document is available to view and download online at: www.croydon.gov.uk/caamps CONSERVATION AREA PUBLISHED BY GENERAL GUIDANCE Spatial Planning Service, Croydon Council Please read this document alongside the Zone B, 6th Floor Croydon Conservation Area General Guidance Bernard Weatherill House SPD (adopted April 2013), available online at: 8 Mint Walk www.croydon.gov.uk/conservation Croydon CR0 1EA www.croydon.gov.uk CROYDON LOCAL PLAN Email: [email protected] Tel: 0208 4071385 The Croydon Local Plan and other Supplementary Planning Documents are available online at: IMAGE CREDITS http://www.croydon.gov.uk/ planningandregeneration/framework/localplan/ Historic photographs supplied by the Croydon Local Studies and Archives Centre unless otherwise specified. 9.0 ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS 9.1 Statutory Listed Buildings All other photographs supplied by London Borough 9.2 Locally Listed Buildings of Croydon. 9.3 Article 4 Directions 9.4 Building Regulations Maps reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey 9.5 Planning Enforcement on behalf of HMSO. © Crown copyright and data- 9.6 Trees in Private Gardens base right 2014. Ordnance Survey Licence Number 8.0 MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND 100019257, courtesy of Croydon Council. IMPROVEMENT 8.1 Maintenance and Repair Aerial photography: © Copyright Getmapping plc 8.2 Restoring and Re-Instating Features 2013 8.3 Public Realm Improvements 8.4 Energy Efficiency Improvements © Croydon Council 2014 CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 01 PART 2: MANAGEMENT PLAN 23 1.1 What is a Conservation Area? 03 1.2 What is a Conservation Area 03 7.0 DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES 24 Appraisal and Management Plan? 7.1 Demolition 24 1.3 What is this Document’s Status? 03 7.2 New Development 24 1.4 Community Involvement 03 7.3 Development Affecting the 25 1.5 Designation Background 03 Conservation Area’s Setting 1.6 Statement of Special Character 03 7.4 Property Conversion 25 1.7 Character Areas 04 7.5 Extensions 25 7.6 Window Replacement 25 PART 1: APPRAISAL 05 7.7 Architectural Features 26 7.8 Cladding, Rendering or Painting 26 2.0 CONTEXT 06 of Walls 26 2.1 Location and Setting 06 7.9 Porches 26 2.2 Historic Development 08 7.10 Extraneous Fixtures 26 2.3 Archaeology 13 7.11 Sigange 26 7.12 Front Gardens and Boundary 26 3.0 TOWNSCAPE CHARACTER 14 Treatments 3.1 Layout and Plan Form 14 3.2 Density and Land Uses 14 8.0 ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS 27 3.3 Building Height and Massing 14 8.1 Statutory Listed Buildings 27 3.4 Topography, Geology and Views 15 8.2 Locally Listed Buildings 27 8.3 Planning Enforcement 27 4.0 STREETSCAPE CHARACTER 16 8.4 Article 4 Directions8.5 27 4.1 Public Realm and Open Space 16 8.5 Planning Enforcement 27 4.2 Street Furniture 16 4.3 Boundary Treatments 17 9.0 MAINTENANCE, REPAIR and 28 4.4 Greenery and Trees 17 IMPROVEMENTS 9.1 Maintenance and Repair 28 5.0 ARCHITECTURAL CHARACTER 18 9.2 Restoring and Re-Instating Features 28 5.1 General Architectural Character 18 9.3 Energy Efficiency Improvements 28 5.2 Historic and Architectural 19 9.4 Public Realm Improvements 28 Significance of Buildings 5.3 Key Architectural Features and 20 APPENDIX 1: OTHER RELEVANT 29 Building Materials INFORMATION 6.0 CONDITION AND THREATS 22 APPENDIX 2: CONTACTS 30 6.1 Current Condition 22 6.2 Key Threats and Negative Issues 22 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 Beulah Hill Conservation Area TOtherhe Beulah Conservation Hill Conservation Areas Area Old Coulsdon Other conservation areas in Croydon Map 1. The location of the Beulah Hill Conservation Area and other conservation areas in Croydon INTRODUCTION The Beulah Hill Conservation Area Other conservation areas in Croydon N Above: Map 2. The boundary of the Beulah Hill Conservation Area Previous Page: Double height bay window on number 78 Beulah Hill 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 WHAT IS A other elements of architectural or the Crystal Palace Community CONSERVATION AREA? historic interest may be present Association were consulted on the 1.1.1 A conservation area is an within the area in addition to prodcution of this document. has area of special architectural or those described. supplied information to inform historic interest, the character this draft Beulah Hill Conservation and appearance of which it 1.2.3 The Management Plan Area Appraisal and Management is desirable to preserve or addresses issues raised in the Plan. enhance. Please see Section 1.3 Appraisal and provides area- of Croydon’s Conservation Area specific development and mainte- 1.4.2 Public consultation ran from General Guidance SPD for further nance guidelines to supplement 26 January - 9 March. The draft information (see Appendix 1 for those provided in Croydon’s document was available to view weblink). Conservation Area General and download on the Council’s Guidance SPD. website and hard copies were 1.2 WHAT IS A CONSERVATION available from local libraries. AREA APPRAISAL AND MANAGE- 1.3 WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THIS Site notices were placed in the MENT PLAN? DOCUMENT? conservation area, letters were 1.2.1 A Conservation Area Appraisal 1.3.1 This document is a Supple- sent to all properties located and Management Plan is a mentary Planning Document within its boundary, an article document produced to supple- (SPD) to the Croydon Local Plan: was published in the Croydon ment Croydon’s Local Plan, the Strategic Policies (adopted April Guardian. A public event and London Plan, and Croydon’s 2013) and is a material considera- exhibition was held at the Living Conservation Area General tion when planning applications Water Satisfies Cafe in Crystal Guidance SPD, which provides affecting the conservation area Palace on 12 February 2015. guidance that is relevant to all are assessed. conservation areas in Croydon. 1.4.3 Following the consultation 1.3.2 All planning applications period, all responses were consid- 1.2.2 This document is structured for sites within the Beulah Hill ered and, where appropriate, the in two parts: An Appraisal of Conservation Area and its setting document was amended prior to the conservation area, and should be informed by both this a recommendation to full Council an associated Management SPD and the Croydon Conserva- for adoption Plan. The Appraisal defines the tion Area General Guidance SPD. principal qualities that constitute 1.5 DESIGNATION BACKGROUND the conservation area’s special 1.4 COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT 1.5.1 The Beulah Hill Conserva- character and identifies threats 1.4.1 The North Croydon tion Area was designated on to this character. The Appraisal Conservation Area Advisory 10 December 2008 as part of a is not necessarily exhaustive and Panel, the Norwood Society and borough-wide review of conser- Grouping of red brick Victorian villas in the Beulah Hill Stucco-faced Georgian houses in the Beulah Hill Conservation Area Conservation Area 3 vation areas and local areas of tion Area has a simple, consistent Hermitage Road are high quality special character. layout of large houses in generous modern semi-detached buildings plots, set back from the road with that have been designed in a 1.6 STATEMENT OF SPECIAL attractive boundary treatments. traditional aesthetic. All buildings CHARACTER It also contains some high quality (apart from 4C Hermitage Road, 1.6.1 The Beulah Hill Conservation early 20th Century housing. another modern building located Area contains a high concentra- behind number 4) directly address tion of Georgian and Victorian 1.7 CHARACTER AREAS the street and create a strongly buildings within a mature 1.7.1 The conservation area contains defined frontage behind attractive landscape of trees. In the context two distinguishable character front gardens. of the significant amount of areas: Beulah Villas and The demolition of buildings from Woodlands. B) THE WOODLANDS this period on Beulah Hill this CHARACTER AREA grouping is an important survival. A) VICTORIAN VILLAS 1.7.3 This character area contains Historically the area was part of CHARACTER AREA numbers 71 and 75-79 (odd), one of Croydon’s most prestigious 1.7.2 This character area contains on the south side of Beulah Hill, 19th Century locations. Its early numbers 72-88 on the north side all Grade II listed, and 8-12 The development is based on the rise of Beulah hill and numbers 2, Woodlands, a locally listed early and subsequent fall in popularity 2j-m, 4 and 4c on the east side 20th Century block of flats built of the Beulah Spa and Pleasure of Hermitage Road. It is distin- into the rich woodland landscape Gardens in the 1830s, and the guished by the regular layout with associated entrance lodge. increased popularity and acces- of eleven detached Victorian This character area is defined by sibility of the area as a result of the villas (six of which are locally its close relationship with the arrival of the Crystal Palace in 1854 listed), which all have, similar surrounding mature landscape. and the expansion of the railways. design, materials and architec- The layout of houses within their Today the Beulah Hill Conserva- tural detailing. Numbers 2j-2m plots is irregular, which results in an informal character. HERMITAGE GARDENS WEDGWOOD WAY EVERSLEY ROADN FOUNDERS GARDENS HERMITAGE ROAD ROAD WOODFIELD CLOSE 2 2j 4c DOWNSVIEW 2m BEULAH HILL 77 88 75 79 80 The 76 Lodge THE WOODLANDS 72 71 1 to MEWS 12b 12 11 10a 10 9 8a 8 PRIORY STONEBRIDGE 1.