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Localism Act - Impact within Greater London, Croydon and Addiscombe

PDF version Croydon Local Plan Review November 2019

Consultation on the Local Plan review begins today (8 November), and the council is asking for as many people as possible to have their say on how the borough should grow.

The consultation is based around three spatial strategies, sites and planning policies, which are necessary to ensure Croydon’s growth and delivery of much-needed new homes, jobs and community facilities over the next 20 years is managed correctly.

Using government methodology, up to 46,040 homes are needed within the borough between now and 2039 and residents will be able to have their say on how best to manage the delivery of them, employment growth and how best to respond to Croydon's climate emergency. Residents can also share their views on how each of the borough's 16 places will change as Croydon grows.

A series of public consultation events are set to take place, with the first happening today (8 November), with spatial planning officers on Surrey Street Market between 11am and 2pm. Tomorrow (9 November) there is another consultation event at Crystal Palace Market, between 10am and 2pm. A full list of events are below:

Selsdon Library, 12 November, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Brighton Road, Coulsdon, 13 November, 11am-2pm
Thornton Heath Library, 19 November, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Norbury High Street, 20 November, 11am-2pm
Purley Library, 26 November, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Purley High Street, 27 November, 11am-2pm
New Addington Library, 3 December, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Addington Road, Selsdon, 4 December, 11am-2pm
South Norwood Market, 7 December, 10am-2pm
Ashburton Library, 10 December, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Addiscombe High Street, 11 December, 11am-2pm

The council's spatial planning officers will also be available to speak to residents at Croydon Arts Store in the Whitgift Centre Wednesday-Saturday between 8 November and 20 December.

To allow a further weekend for comments, the consultation deadline has been extended to the following Monday (13 January 2020), when the results will be analysed. In late 2020 there will be another public consultation on the council's preferred options, which will then be publicly examined in spring 2021, with adoption taking place in 2022.

'We all face some really big challenges across the borough. There is a housing crisis, with a large number of new homes needed over the next 20 years. We also need to respond quickly to the climate change emergency by making our borough much more sustainable. We need to ensure every place across Croydon has a healthy environment, access to employment, leisure and culture, and is supported by a range of appropriate facilities. Getting the balance right will be incredibly challenging but nothing is decided yet.'

'We've got events taking place across the borough to help people understand what is being considered, talk to our planning officers, and share their views. We all need to consider how and where the changes will happen. I am sure if we all work and listen together we can ensure Croydon has a brighter future.'

Consultation Documents:

Below are the following evidence document that support the Issues and Options consultation:

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18Oct16 - Croydon Local Plan: Strategic Policies - Partial Review (Proposed Submission)

The proposed submission Local Plan documents are the final version of the Local Plan that the Council consider is ready to submit for Examination in Public by an independent Planning Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State. Before the Local Plan can be submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for Examination in Public, the Local Plan documents, Policies Map and supporting documents must be published by the local planning authority for representations and approved by Council later this year for submission to the Secretary of State. This provides a formal opportunity for the local community and other interested parties to consider the Proposed Submission Local Plan and make any representations. Representations submitted will be considered by the independent Planning Inspector at the Examinations in Public.

The Croydon Local Plan: Strategic Policies was adopted in April 2013 and sets a vision and framework for the planning of the borough up to 2031. A partial review of the Strategic Policies has been undertaken to ensure the borough has an up to date development plan to 2036.

Alongside the partial review of the Strategic Policies, preparation of the second part of the Local Plan, the detailed policies and proposals is taking place and will provide the development management planning policies and site allocations for the growth outlined in the partial review of the Strategic Policies.

All the consultation documents are available for inspection at the borough's libraries, at Bernard Weatherill House (Access Croydon), Mint Walk, Croydon. 9.00am-4.00pm (Monday to Friday) or by downloading from the Council's website:
www.croydon.gov.uk/localplanoneand www.croydon.gov.uk/localplantwo
Alternative formats of the document are available on request at ldf@croydon.gov.uk or 020 8726 6000 or 020 8407 1385

ASPRA Area map
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PDF version map

Objections were made by ASPRA members e.g. Objection

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05Nov15 - Croydon Local Plan: Strategic Policies - Partial Review

18Dec15 ASPRA responded to the Croydon Local Plan as follows:
Email 18Dec15 to LDF Team at Croydon Council Formal Response

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click text above to download the full letter.

More information is available at: www.croydon.gov.uk/localplanone & www.croydon.gov.uk/localplantwo

Representations must be made by Friday 18th December 2015.

The process for reading the Croydon Local Plan 2 Documents and making comments is set out below
on pages 11 and 12 of the Detailed Policies and Proposals.

Click on above images to open file (large file so may take a few seconds).

	DM4	DM5	DM6		DM24	DM25	DM31-47
Other Policies not specific for or relevant to Addiscombe
	DM2	DM3	DM7	DM8	DM9	DM10	DM11
	DM12	DM13	DM14	DM15	DM16	DM17	DM18
	DM19	DM20	DM21	DM22	DM23	DM26	DM27
	DM28	DM29	DM30	DM48	DM49	DM50	DM51
Appendix 1 Page 24 Policy DM2 Development on garden land
Appendix 1 Page 27 Policy DM3 Residential care and nursing homes
Appendix 1 Page 30 Residential annexes Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 32 Policy DM4 Development in Croydon Metropolitan Centre, District and Local Centres ⁷ For the purposes of this policy all floors within purpose built shopping centres are considered to be ground floors. Go to top of Policies Table
Addiscombe Shopping Areas Further details of Shopping Areas can be found at Appendix 3 - (very large file) Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 39 Policy DM5 Development in Neighbourhood Centres Policy DM5: Development in Neighbourhood Centres and Parades Further details of Neighbourhood Centres can be found at Appendix 3 - (very large file) Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 43 Policy DM6 Development in Shopping Parades Further details of Shopping Parades can be found at Appendix 3 - (very large file) Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 47 Policy DM7 Development in Restaurant Quarter Parades
Appendix 1 Page 49 Policy DM8: Development in edge of centre and out of centre locations Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 53 DM9 Expansion of industrial and warehousing premises in Strategic, Separated and Integrated Industrial Locations
Appendix 1 Page 58 Policy DM10 Design and character Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 68 Policy DM11 Shop front design and security Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 71 Policy DM12 Advertisement hoardings Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 71 Policy 13-21 to be published here later Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 114 Policy DM24 Metropolitan Green Belt, Metropolitan Open Land and Local Green Spaces Policy DM24: Local Green Spaces See also: www.croydon.gov.uk/planningandregeneration/framework/lpevidence/nature Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 121 Policy DM25 Biodiversity Policy DM25: Biodiversity Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 141 Policy DM31 Positive character of the Places of Croydon Go to top of Policies Table
Appendix 1 Page 149 Policy DM33 Positive character of Addiscombe ³⁵ These buildings have few or no blank facades. At ground floor the buildings contain uses that frame the street or space and active upper floors with little or no obscure or frosted glazing. Active frontages encourage visual and/or physical interaction between the private uses inside and the public uses outside. Visual interaction is achieved by creating views or glimpses through windows, projecting bays, balconies and doors into or out of a building. Physical interaction encourages people to come into a building or has indoor uses that spill out onto the street. ³⁶ Grain also called urban grain. It describes the pattern of the arrangement and size of buildings within a settlement and the degree by which an area's pattern of streets-blocks and junctions are respectively small and frequent (fine grain) or large and infrequent (course grain). Go to top of Policies Table

10Oct 15 - The Local plan has been "approved by cabinet" and will go to consulation as below
Further details can be found at Cabinet Agenda 21Sep15 - Item 7

The Local plan has been "approved by cabinet" and will go to consulation as below

Local Plan dates Oct 2015 Further details can be found at Main Report

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Policy DM25: Biodiversity
Local Plan Biodiversity

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De-designation of Metropolitan Open Land that does not meet the criteria for designation
A review of Metropolitan Open Land has identified that the area set out in the map below does not meet the criteria for designation as Metropolitan Open Land and so it is proposed for de-designation. Much of the area will either be re-designated as Local Green Space or consists of statutorily protected allotments.
Review for land south of Shirley Oaks Hospital
Local Plan Open Land

Local Designated Views, Croydon Panoramas and Local Designated Landmarks - Views and Landmarks
Local Plan Panorama

Further details of Panoramas, Viewpoints, Greenbelt ans Metropolitan Open Land can be found at Appendix 2 - (very large file)

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Pages describing Addiscombe are shown below.
Local Plan Open Land

Note the errors in photo labels - 12 is Northampton Road, lower 10 is Ashburton Park.

Further details of Croydon's Places can be found at Appendix 2 - (very large file)

The requested designation of Heritage Status for large parts of the ASPRA area seems to have been dropped.
All we have is a small part of Bingham Road
Heritage Bingham

also adjacent to us Inglis Road has Heritage Status
Heritage Inglis

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Minutes of meeting with Croydon Council 24^th March 2014
Meeting minutes 24Mar14

Response sent to Croydon Council 6^th December 2013
General Response - Part 1
Formal Response - Part 2

Documents from meeting on 12^th November 2013
Minutes
Preferred Options - Addiscombe (PowerPoint -download may take 2 minutes)
Addiscombe General Character
Croydon Opportunity Area
Please let us know if you have any comments or questions (via the Contact page).

Addiscombe Map

The Group of local Residents' Associations have been asked to comment (and agree) Croydon Council's proposals for detailed planning policies. Similar exercises are taking place across the borough which has been split into 16 "Places".
There is a brief introduction at the foot of this page.

Residents, Business and local organisations are invited to comment during a six week period starting 25th October 2013. ASPRA are participating however there may be some concerns about the mechanism adopted by the council to limit the number of representatives who will provide feedback to Council Officers.

Planning is critical to ensuring that Croydon meets the needs of its residents, business community and visitors. The Croydon Local Plan sets out the strategy, sites and planning policies necessary to meet these needs in the short term and over the next 20 years. No area in Croydon has set up a Neighbourhood Forum and the Council are suggesting that local residents would find that route complicated, expensive and very time consuming. Neighbourhood Plans have been generated in both Woldingham and CR3 (Caterham/Chaldon/Whyteleafe) which are under Tandridge District Council.
See: Tandridge Neigbourhood Planning

The Localism Act has generated this very large piece of National planning laid out in the Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012. See: Neighbourhood Planning Regulations 2012

The London-wide plan has been published and this impacts on Croydon's plans:
See: The London Plan

The Croydon Strategic Policies were adopted on 23 April 2013.
The South London Waste Plan was adopted in 2012.
The Croydon Local Plan - Detailed Policies and Proposals (CLPDPP) will be open for public consultation from
25th October to 6th December 2013      See: www.croydon.gov.uk/localplantwo     Download the Representation Form

More information is available on the council website: Neighbourhood Planning        Croydon's Local Plan
Council Report        Croydon Opportunity Area Planning Framework        Detailed Policies

The CLPDPP will assist the regeneration of the borough through the setting of firm planning framework that will provide certainty to the community and developers. It will also enable the compulsory purchasing of sites needed to bring forward new development in Croydon. It will then be subject to independent examination by a Planning Inspector. A further round of consultation is scheduled for summer 2014. During 2015 work will continue towards an independent examination before final adoption by the council in summer 2016.

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The relevant documents are already available on the Council website:

It is expected that these documents will be available at all Croydon Libraries and the new Council Offices "Bernard Weatherill House".

Core Documents:
Background Paper 1 Detailed Policies (Preferred and Alternative Options)
appendix 9 PLACES OF CROYDON LOCAL CHARACTER
appendix 10 NON RESIDENTIAL CHARACTER TYPOLOGIES
appendix 11 PLACE-SPECIFIC POLICIES
Other Documents:
Main Report to CABINET 30 September 2013
appendix 1 Saved policies of the Unitary Development Plan to be deleted upon adoption of the Croydon Local Plan: Detailed Policies and Proposals DPD
appendix 2 Full details of amendments to District Centre, Local Centre and Shopping Parade designations
appendix 3 Proposed Restaurant Quarter Parade Designations
appendix 4 Map of proposed Local Green Space designations
appendix 5 Map of proposed extensions of Metropolitan Green Belt
Background Appendices 1 to 5
Appendix 1 - Commuted sums for affordable housing on small residential developments
Appendix 2 - Proposed town centre boundary changes (see map below)
Appendix 3 - Calculating the percentage of units within a Main or Secondary Retail Frontage
Appendix 5 - Proposed Restaurant Quarter Parade designations
Background Appendix 6 Proposed Local Designated Views, Croydon Panoramas and Landmarks
Background Appendix 7 Proposed Local Green Spaces
Background Appendix 8 Minor extensions to Metropolitan Green Belt made as a consequence of the introduction of the new Local Green Space designation
Background Paper 2 Sustainability Appraisal of Detailed Policies (Preferred and Alternative Options)
Appendix to Background Paper 2 Detailed proposals and Policies DPD

If these fail to download there are copies of the core documents on the ASPRA website:
Background Paper 1 appendix 9 appendix 10 appendix 11

UDP adopted 13 July 2006 for example page 256 shows Local Shopping Parade in Cherry Orchard Road.

Classifications for retail premises:
A1 uses are for all or any of the following purposes: the retail sale of goods other than hot food, a post office, for the sale of tickets or as a travel agency, for the sale of sandwiches or other cold food for consumption off the premises, for hairdressing, for the direction of funerals, for the display of goods for sale, for the hiring out of domestic or personal goods or articles, for the cleaning or washing of clothes or fabrics on the premises, for the reception of goods to be washed, cleaned or repaired, in all cases where the sale, display or service is to visiting members of the public.
A2 uses are financial and professional services (other than health or medical services), being services which it is appropriate to provide in a shopping area, and where the services are provided principally to visiting members of the public;
A3 uses are for the sale of food and drink for the consumption on the premises or of hot food for consumption off the premises (i.e. cafes, restaurants, pubs, wine bars, and takeaways).
A4 uses are premises where the primary purpose is the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks, i.e. Public Houses, Wine Bars or other such drinking establishments.
A5 uses are for premises where the purpose is the sale of hot food to take away.

For a complete listing see: Change of Use Planning Permision

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Appendix 2 - Proposed town centre boundary changes