SP4 — Urban Design, Heritage and Local Character.

Strategic Objective 5: Ensure that high quality new development both integrates, respects and enhances the borough’s natural environment and built heritage. Strategic Objective 7: Conserve and create spaces and buildings that foster safe, healthy and cohesive communities. Strategic Objective 9: Ensure the responsible use of land and natural resources and management of waste to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Tall Buildings SP4.1 Development will be of a high quality, respecting and enhancing Croydon’s varied local character, and heritage assets contributing positively to public realm, landscape and townscape to create sustainable communities. SP4.5 Tall buildings within Croydon are defined as buildings higher than 21m in height as measured from the ground to the top of the building. Proposals for tall buildings will be considered appropriate only in the Tall Building Zones identified on the Policies Map. SP4.2 Development will be required to: SP4.6 Tall buildings will be required to: a. Be informed by the distinctive qualities, heritage, character, identity, topography, architectural diversity, and opportunities of the relevant Places of Croydon; a. Respect and enhance local character, and heritage assets and their settings; b. Preserve and enhance Heritage Assets and their settings, Protect Local Designated Views, Croydon Panoramas, the setting of Landmarks, other important vistas and skylines; b. Minimise the environmental impacts and respond sensitively to topography; c. Make a positive contribution to the skyline and image of Croydon; c. Enhance social cohesion, health and well-being, and d. Include high quality public realm in their proposals to provide a setting appropriate to the scale and significance of the building and the context of the surrounding area: and d. Include well designed spaces for the proposed uses, ensuring any mixing of uses carefully integrates high quality amenity, access and servicing. e. Comply with Policy D9 of the London Plan in terms of visual, functional, environmental and cumulative impacts. SP4.3 Policy deleted. Croydon Opportunity Area SP4.4 In the Croydon Opportunity Area the Council will support high quality, developments that are tailored to and help to protect or establish local identity. Croydon Local Plan 2024 A Place to Belong: Urban Design Heritage and Local Character Public Realm Conservation of Heritage Assets and the Historic Environment SP4.7 The Council will work with partners (including private land owners) to improve the public realm within the borough. SP4.11 The use of heritage assets and the historic environment will be promoted as a catalyst for regeneration and cohesion and to strengthen the sense of place. SP4.8 The Council with its partners will improve Croydon’s public realm to respect, enhance, create local character and distinctiveness, and integrate with the historic environment. SP4.9 The Council will establish a hierarchy of places and key strategic roads as part of a public realm framework which will guide the delivery of public realm improvements to assist regeneration focusing on Croydon’s Metropolitan, District, and Local Centres, Conservation Areas, Local Heritage Areas and key strategic roads. SP4.10 The Council will deliver a Smart City vision and programme, with associated infrastructure integrated into public realm design. SP4.12 The Council will support opportunities to enhance Croydon’s heritage assets, their setting and the historic landscape, through high quality new development and public realm improvements, will be supported where they respect and enhance the historic the historic environment and are well integrated. Croydon Local Plan 2024 Designations shown on the Policies Map Designations set by this policy are shown on the Policies Map. The designations are summarised in Table 6.1. Only those designations that exist because they are in the Croydon Local Plan are shown in the table. Other designations including Conservation Areas and Statutory Listed Buildings have their own procedure for designation and can be adopted at any time: Table 6.1 Designations set by Policy SP4 shown on the Policies Map Heritage Asset Location Archaeological Priority Areas Addington and Addington Park Norwood Grove Addington Hills Old Coulsdon Ampere Way Pampisford Road a. Statutory Listed Buildings; Ashburton Park Park Lane Anglo-Saxon Cemetery b. Conservation Areas; Cane Hill Pollards Hill c. Registered Historic Parks and Gardens; Central Croydon RAF Kenley d. Scheduled Monuments; Croham Hurst Riddlesdown Road e. Archaeological Priority Areas; Croham Hurst Round Barrow Russell Hill f. Local Heritage Areas; Croydon 19th Century Cemeteries Sanderstead g. Non-designated Local List of Buildings of Historic or Architectural Importance; Croydon Downs Waddon Deepfield Way Watendone h. Non-designated Local List of Historic Parks and Gardens; Elmers End i. Croydon Panoramas; Farthing Down j. Local Designated Landmarks; and Haling Grove k. Local Designated Views. Hook Hill SP4.14 The Council will maintain a regularly updated schedule of Croydon’s designated heritage assets and non-designated locally listed heritage assets. Lion Green Road SP4.15 The Council and its partners will promote improvements and enhance the accessibility of heritage assets to allow enjoyment of the historic environment for all. London to Lewes Roman Road SP4.13 The Council and its partners will strengthen the protection and enhancement of the following heritage assets and their settings: London to Brighton Roman Road Mere Bank Croydon Local Plan 2024 A Place to Belong: Urban Design Heritage and Local Character Heritage Asset Location Local Heritage Areas Addiscombe College Estate Stuart Crescent Auckland Road The Dutch Village Beatrice Avenue Bingham Road Birdhurst Road Bishops Walk Brighton Road (Purley) Campden Road and Spencer Road Chipstead Valley Road (St Dunstan’s Cottages) Henderson Road Ingatestone Road Laud Street area Croydon Local Plan 2024 Heritage Asset Name Local List of Historic Parks and Gardens Addiscombe Recreation Ground Pollards Hill All Saints Churchyard, Sanderstead Queen’s Gardens Thornton Heath High Street All Saints with St Margaret’s, Upper Norwood Queen’s Road Cemetery Upper Shirley Road Ashburton Park Royal Russell School Beaulieu Heights St John the Evangelist, Old Coulsdon Beulah Hill Pond St John’s Churchyard, Shirley Bradmore Green St John’s Memorial Garden, Church Street Chaldon Way Gardens St Mary’s Churchyard, Addington Village Coombe Wood St Peter’s Churchyard, South Croydon Coulsdon Manor (Coulsdon Court) Sanderstead Pond (and Green) Coulsdon Memorial Ground Selsdon Park Hotel (and golf club) Croham Hurst South Norwood Lake & Gardens Croydon Airport, Purley Way West South Norwood Recreation Ground London Road (Broad Green) Duppas Hill The Lawns London Road (Norbury) Geoffrey Harris House Thornton Heath Recreation Ground Pollards Hill South Grangewood Park Thomas Moore School- (frontage) Portland Road (Market Parade) Haling Grove Upper Norwood Recreation Ground Portland Road Terraces Hall Grange St Peter’s Road Heathfield Virgo Fidelis School inc St. Joseph’s RC Infant and Junior Schools South End with Ye Market Kenley Airfield Waddon Ponds Station Approach (Coulsdon) Kings Wood Wandle Park Stoats Nest Village Lloyd Park Wettern Tree Garden Millers Pond Whitehorse Road Recreation Ground Mitcham Road Cemetery Whitgift Almhouses Norbury Hall Woodcote Village Green Park Hill Recreation Ground Woodside Green Croydon Local Plan 2024 A Place to Belong: Urban Design Heritage and Local Character Croydon Local Plan 2024 Name New Name New Croydon Panoramas (CP1) From Addington Hills of Croydon Metropolitan Centre (landmarks NTL Mast, Shirley Windmill, and No.1 Croydon) Local Designated Views (LV1) From Addiscombe Road by Sandilands Tramstop of No.1 Croydon (CP2) From Beulah Hill of Croydon Metropolitan Centre (landmarks No.1 Croydon and IKEA Towers) (CP3) From Croham Hurst looking south west of Purley and the Downs (CP4) From Farthing Downs of Coulsdon (landmark No.1 Croydon) From Kenley Common of Riddlesdown (A good viewpoint to see a unique view of Riddlesdown, and the quarry on the hillside) (CP5) From land adjacent to Parkway and North Downs Crescent of Addington Palace and Shirley Hills (landmark Addington Palace) (CP6) From Norwood Grove of Croydon Metropolitan Centre (landmark No.1 Croydon) (CP7) From Pollards Hill of Croydon Metropolitan Centre (landmarks No.1 Croydon, George Street and IKEA Towers) (CP8) From Purley Way Playing Field of Croydon Metropolitan Centre (landmarks NTL mast, the Town Hall Clock Tower in Katharine Street, No.1 Croydon and the Park Hill Water Tower) (CP9) From Riddlesdown of Kenley (A good viewpoint to see a unique view of Kenley) (CP10) From Ross Road of IKEA Towers (landmark IKEA Towers) (LV2) From Church Street of Whitgift Almshouses and No.1 Croydon (LV3) From Crown Hill of Croydon Minster (LV4) From Farthing Downs of Cane Hill Water Tower (LV5) From George Street of No.1 Croydon, George Street (LV6) From Heathfield of Selsdon and New Addington (unique view of the collection of buildings of New Addington (LV7) From High Street north east, of the Clock Tower, South Norwood (LV12) From Oliver Grove of the Clock Tower, South Norwood (LV13) From Park Hill of Croydon Metropolitan Centre (unique collection of buildings, no landmarks) (LV14) From Roman Way north of Croydon Minster (LV15) From Roman Way south of Croydon Minster (LV16) From Selsdon Road of St Peter’s Church (LV17) From South Norwood Hill of the Shirley Windmill (LV18) From Woodcote Grove Road of Cane Hill and St. Andrews Church (St Andrews in the foreground and land mark of Cane Hill Water Tower in the distance) (LV8) From High Street of the Clock Tower, Thornton Heath (LV9) From High Street south west, of the Clock Tower, South Norwood Name New Local Designated Landmarks (1) Addington Palace (10) Park Hill Water Tower (2) All Saints Church, Sanderstead (11) Shirley Windmill (3) Cane Hill Water Tower (12) St. Andrew’s Church, Woodmansterne Road, Coulsdon (4) Clock Tower, High Street, Thornton Heath (13) St. Peter’s Church, South Croydon (5) Clock Tower, Station Road, South Norwood (14) The Town Hall Clock Tower, Croydon (6) Croydon Minster (15) Whitgift Almshouses, North End (LV10) From Limpsfield Road, near Wentworth Way of All Saints’ Church (LV11) From North End of the Town Hall Clock Tower (7) IKEA Towers, part of former power station (8) No.1 Croydon, George Street (9) NTL Mast, South Norwood Hill Croydon Local Plan 2024 A Place to Belong: Urban Design Heritage and Local Character Croydon Local Plan 2024 What it will look like Figure 6.2: Policy SP4 Heritage map Figure 6.1: Policy SP4 Public Realm map Borough Boundary Borough Boundary Metropolitan Centre Crystal Palace E Conservation Area C Public Realm Improvements in Local and District Centres Norbury Thornton Heath F Proposed Local Centre Norwood Junction Station Locally Listed Building D Norbury A23 A23 South Norwood Statutory Listed Building B Crystal A Palace Conservation Area(s): South Norwood Thornton Heath A. Upper Norwood Triangle B. Harold Road C. Beulah Hill D. Church Road E. Norwood Grove F. Norbury Estate G. South Norwood H. East India Estate I. Wellesley Road J. Central Croydon K.Church Street Norwood G Junction Station Railway Network A23 A23 Railway Station Tram Network and Stops West Croydon Station UPDATED East Croydon Station L A232 N UPDATED A23 Local Heritage Area O M Registered Park and Garden Q P Locally Listed Historic Park and Garden Scheduled Ancient Monument Selsdon Selsdon New Addington Archaeological Priority Area New Addington R Purley Purley Railway Network Railway Station S Tram Network and Stops A2 A2 Coulsdon Road Network Coulsdon A23 A23 Shirley H J A23 A232 I K A23 East Croydon Station A23 West Croydon Station Road Network Shirley L. Croydon Minster M. The Waldrons N. Chatsworth Road O. St Bernards P. Croham Manor Road Q. Addington Village R. Webb Estate S. Upper Woodcote Village T. Bradmore Green U. Kenley Aerodrome T U Croydon Local Plan 2024 A Place to Belong: Urban Design Heritage and Local Character Why we have taken this approach 6.2 The National Planning Policy Framework sets out the requirements for the protection and enhancement of the borough’s heritage assets. Croydon’s built environment is characterised by rich, pioneering heritage and distinctive local characters that derive from its varied history, urban form, uses, architecture, topography, landscape and diverse communities. High quality new buildings, streets and open public spaces can respond to and enhance the positive elements of local character and heritage, whilst providing accessible, inclusive places that contribute to the identity of the borough and well-being of its diverse communities. 6.3 Paragraph deleted. Urban Design 6.4 Croydon has been designated in the London Plan as an Opportunity Area, therefore it is critical that the borough addresses the implications of this growth through the Strategic Policies.Robust urban design policies are necessary for Croydon to encourage significant levels of growth in a sustainable way and ensure new development respects heritage assets and their settings, local character and the historic and natural landscape, including established suburban residential areas and open spaces. 6.5 Paragraph deleted. 6.6 Good standards of design help to address the impacts of growth on ethnic minority communities by including policies that support diversity, equality, inclusivity and access for all. Design needs to consider inclusivity and accessibility from the beginning of the design process through to completion, occupation, management and maintenance. Croydon Opportunity Area 6.7 The Croydon Opportunity Area will be an area of significant growth and renewal. In this context, with available land and renewal opportunity, the substantial number of new dwellings planned will require high density development and a number of tall buildings, all of high quality in order to deliver successful places. Croydon Local Plan 2024 Tall Buildings

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