DM26 — Metropolitan Green Belt, Metropolitan Open Land and Local Green Spaces.

DM26.1 The Council will protect and safeguard the extent of the borough’s Metropolitan Green Belt and Metropolitan Open Land as designated on the Policies Map by applying the same level of protection afforded to Metropolitan Green Belt in national planning policy to Metropolitan Open Land in the borough. DM26.2 Extensions to existing buildings in Metropolitan Green Belt and Metropolitan Open Land should not be more than 20% of their original floor space or volume, or 100m2 (whichever is the smaller) unless they are for agricultural use, forestry, or facilities for outdoor sport, outdoor recreation or cemeteries. DM26.3 Extensions to existing buildings in Metropolitan Green Belt and Metropolitan Open Land that are less than 20% of the original floor space or volume, or less than 100m2 in extent (whichever is the smaller) and extensions for agricultural use, forestry, or facilities for outdoor sport, outdoor recreation or cemeteries may still be disproportionate. In considering whether they are disproportionate and also whether a new replacement dwelling is materially larger or, if any proposed structure harms the openness of Metropolitan Green Belt or Metropolitan Open Land the Council will have regard to: a. Changes in the floor space and volume of buildings; b. The floor space and volume of all previous extensions (since 1948), alterations and developments within the curtilage of the dwelling; c. Use of basements and roof spaces as living areas; d. Whether there is an increase in the spread of buildings across the site, in particular where visible from public vantage points; a. In reasonably close proximity to the community it serves; e. The size of the curtilage and character of the surrounding area; and b. Demonstrably special to a local community and holds a particular local significance and; f. Whether ancillary structures have an urbanising effect. c. Local in character and is not an extensive tract of land. Local Green Spaces DM26.4 The Council will protect and safeguard the extent of the borough’s Local Green Spaces. Development on Local Green Spaces will be inappropriate except for: a. The provision of facilities (in connection with the existing use of the Local Green Space or a change of use) for outdoor sport, outdoor recreation, cemeteries and burial grounds and allotments, as long as the facilities preserve the openness of the Local Green Space and do not undermine the reasons why the green space was designated as a Local Green Space; b. The replacement of an existing building, provided the new building is not materially larger than the one it replaces; c. The re-use of buildings provided that the buildings are of permanent and substantial construction or d. The change of use of land for outdoor sport and recreation or allotments. Croydon Local Plan 2024 A Place with a Sustainable Future: Green Grid Croydon Local Plan 2024 Designations shown on the Policies Map How the policy works Each of the designations set by this policy are shown on the Policies Map. The designations are listed in Table 9.1A: National planning policy Metropolitan Green Belt Table 9.1A Designations set by Policy DM26.4 shown on the Policies Map 9.9 Metropolitan Green Belt is a national designation which aims to check the unrestricted sprawl of London, prevent Croydon from merging with towns in neighbouring local authorities, safeguard Croydon’s countryside from encroachment, to preserve the setting and special character of Croydon, and to assist in its regeneration by encouraging the recycling of derelict and urban land. 9.12 Between them the National Planning Policy Framework and London Plan apply the same level of protection to the Metropolitan Open Land as is afforded to Metropolitan Green Belt. No. Important Green Space Place Addiscombe Railway Park Addiscombe Ashburton Park Addiscombe Biggin Wood Norbury Coulsdon Memorial Ground Kenley and Old Coulsdon Foxley Wood and Sherwood Oaks Kenley and Old Coulsdon/ Purley No. Important Green Space Place The Lawns Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood The Queen's Gardens Croydon Opportunity Area Westow Park Crystal Palace and upper Norwood Wettern Tree Garden Sanderstead Whitehorse Road Recreation Ground Broad Green and Selhurst Woodcote Village Green Purley Metropolitan Open Land 9.10 Metropolitan Open Land is a London designation which aims to protect land that either contributes to the physical structure of London, includes open air facilities which serve either the whole or significant parts of London, contains features or landscapes (historic, recreational, biodiversity) of either national or metropolitan value, or forms part of a Green Chain or a link in the network of green infrastructure. Grangewood Park Thornton Heath Haling Grove South Croydon Higher Drive Recreation Ground Kenley and Old Coulsdon Other open space Millers Pond Shirley 9.11 Paragraph deleted. Park Hill Recreation Ground Addiscombe Purley Beeches Sanderstead Rotary Field Recreation Ground Purley Sanderstead Pond Sanderstead Sanderstead Recreation Ground Sanderstead Shirley Recreation Ground Shirley South Croydon Recreation Ground South Croydon South Norwood Recreation Ground South Norwood and Woodside Spring Park Road Shirley Stambourne Woodland Walk Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood Temple Avenue Copse

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