SP7 — Green Grid.
How Croydon actually applies SP7: who leans on it, where it bites hardest, and how often it's invoked. The policy text is the rule; this is the behaviour.
SP7 is a published Croydon planning policy. This page records where it appears in the council's published planning decisions.
Cited under: Croydon Local Plan (adopted)
Policy SP7 requires the protection and enhancement of Metropolitan Green Belt, Metropolitan Open Land, and Local Green Spaces, including specific areas in Croydon, to preserve biodiversity.
Plain-English summary of the adopted policy text below. The full text is the rule; this is the gist.
Green Grid
Verbatim from the adopted Croydon plan · source document. The council's published plan is the authoritative version.
33 citations in the selected period
Not filled in yet. This will hold how officers actually argue SP7 case by case, classified from their decision reports — the classification pass hasn't run. Nothing is paraphrased in its place.
SP7 appears most often in Sanderstead, Purley And Woodcote, Selsdon And Addington Village. It appears across 18 of 67 officers recorded in this period. The map shows the pattern for the selected period.
This shows the decision reports in which SP7 appears. It does not yet claim that the policy caused those outcomes.
Not filled in yet — the classification pass over the citing passages hasn't run. When it has, this shows why SP7 was used, whether it supported approval or refusal, and what changed as a result. No conclusion is shown until that classification has been checked.
From Planning Inspectorate decision letters that cite SP7. Dismissed = the council's refusal stood, the policy held; allowed = overturned. The tighter join — this borough's own refusals citing SP7 traced to their specific appeals — is still to come.
Atlas intelligence summarises patterns and observations from published planning records. Past decisions do not indicate how any future application will be determined. Every application is assessed on its own merits, having regard to the proposal, site, evidence and policies applying at the time. This information is provided for general information only and is not planning, legal, financial or professional advice.