It seems to be accepted that there is a housing crisis in the UK, and Croydon is no exception.
How much of this is down to the complete failure of successive governments to control prices and limit the excesses of landlords, banks and estate agents – leading to the complete exploitation of the rest of us – is open to question.
What isn’t is the fact that almost every town – including Croydon – has to meet incredibly high targets for house building over the next 20 years.
This, of course, raises the question of where exactly these houses are going to go.
Croydon council has been set the astonishing target of building 46,000 homes by 2039 and it’s hard to appreciate just what a huge task this is.
We’ve listed below every site which has been earmarked by the council for new homes. – and there are quite a few of them
Building thousands of homes on precious green belt land is just one option which will be considered to address Croydon’s housing crisis.
Next month (November) Croydon Council will launch public consultation on a review of the local plan.
The aim of the review is to address the need for 46,040 new homes to be built in the borough by 2039 and where these should be built.
There are three main options, which are:
- Building more homes in the suburbs, particularly in areas within walking distance of train stations. Up to 14,000 of these would be expected to be in central Croydon
- A ‘total rethink’ of Purley Way to provide 12,000 new homes. £300,000 of funding has already been secured to come up with a master plan for this
- Limited release of the green belt. This includes land in New Addington, Selsdon and Sanderstead
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The third option seems to be the most controversial but cabinet member for regeneration Councillor Paul Scott said that some residents’ groups had asked the council to look into it as an option as they are concerned about the level of change needed in their neighbourhoods.
At a cabinet meeting on Monday, (October 21), he said: “As part of the consultation we will release likely housing targets for each location in the borough.
“We felt it was important to identify the potential change in each of these areas.
“I think this needs to be a very honest conversation. We have very difficult issues that we as a community need to address, including a climate emergency and a housing crisis.”
But Councillor Jason Perry said that a loss of green belt would impact on biodiversity in the borough.
He said: “The paper suggests that there will be changes in character, I think in some parts of the borough that would be the decimation of character.
“We talk about the sustainability of development, is building on green belt sustainable? It questions this council’s commitment to the climate change emergency.”
The consultation will open in November and close on January 8, during this time there will be public events explaining the options and an ‘urban room’ in the Whitgift Centre with the proposals.
The proposed submission date is August 2020 and a revised plan is set to be adopted in 2022.
All the sites that are earmarked by the council for new homes:
The council’s local plan contains a list of all the sites it considers it would be possible to build homes on.
The list was put together after the council put out a call for landowners and developers to come forward to suggest possible areas for development. It also looked at sites that have – or are on the way to getting – planning permission and sites which were identified by council officers as having potential for new homes.
Many of the sites are still just possibilities and a great deal more work will need to be done to fix agreements to allow building to actually take place.
1) Croydon Garden Centre, Waddon Way – 35-94 homes
2) Heath Clark, Stafford Road – 62-128 homes
3) Former Royal Mail sorting office , 1-5 Addiscombe Road – 74-201 homes
4) Morrisons supermarket, 500 Purley Way – 251-1028 homes
5) Bowyers Yard, Bedwardine Road
6) Purley leisure Centre Car park – 30-171 homes
7) Croydon College car park – 159 homes
8) Edridge Road – 180-220 homes
9) Purley Baptist Church – 20-111 homes
10) Central Parade West, Central Parade – 50-290 homes
11) 294-330 Purley Way – 17 homes
12) 44-60 Cherry Orchard Road – 50-80 homes
13) BMW House, 375-401 Brighton Road – 42 homes
14) Cane Hill Hospital site Farthing Way – 650 homes
15) Car park at 54-58 Whytecliffe Road South – 21-119 homes
16) 130 Oval Road – 10-57 homes
17) 114 to 118 Whitehorse Road – 7-8 homes
18) Victory Place (Crystal Palace, Upper Norwood) 33-70 homes
19) 24 Station Road – 12 homes
20) Former Taberner House site, Fell Road – 440 homes
21) Cheriton House, 20 Chipstead Avenue – 15-20 homes
22) Prospect West and car park to rear of 81-85 Station Road – 40-288 homes
23) Land at Poppy Lane – 51-107 homes
24) Banstead Road – 77-100 homes
25) Supermarket car park, 54 Bridstock Road – 25-55 homes
26) Cherry Orchard Gardens – 220-492 homes
27) Lansdowne Road – 419-441 homes
28) St Anne’s House and Cambridge House, 20-26 Wellesley Road – 46-196 homes
29) St George’s House, Park Lane – 288 homes
30) Ruskin Square, 61 Dingwall Road – 550-625 homes
31) Addiscombe Grove – 12-32 homes
32) 30-38 Addiscombe Road – 49-141 homes
33) Stephenson House, Knollys House, Cherry Orchard Road – 97-279 homes
34) Arcadia House, 5 Cairo New Road – 41-117 homes
35) St Matthews House, 98 George Street – 7-20 homes
36) Derby Road – 48-137 homes
37) Jobcentre Dingwall Road – 49-141 homes
38) 28 Dingwall Road – 16-44 homes
39) Car park at Drummond Road – 12-32 homes
40) Car park at rear of Leon Road – 56-162 homes
41) Suffolk House George Street – 35-101 homes
42) 100 George Street – 30-85 homes
43) St George’s Walk, Katharine House and Park House, Park Street, 88-504 homes
44) Leon House, 233 High Street – 26-145 homes
45) Stonewest House, Lamberts Place – 9-31 homes
46) Emerald House 7-15 Lansdowne Road – 55-157 homes
47) 20 Lansdowne Road – 109-313 homes
48) Multi-storey car park, Lansdowne Road – 133-384 homes
49) Lidl, Easy Gym and car park – 9-101 homes
50) West Croydon Station and shops – 79-455 homes
51) Poplar Walk car park – 50-232 homes
52) Lunar House Wellesley Road – 18-542 homes
53) 9-11 Wellesley Road – 21-60 homes
54) Multi-storey car park, Whitgift Street – 95-193 homes
55) Segas House, Park Lane – 40 homes
56) Southern House Wellesley Grove – 82-234 homes
57) Apollo House, Wellesley Road – 82-234 homes
58) Davis House, Robert Street- 82-234 homes
59) Mondial House, 102 George Street – 30-85 homes
60) Norwich Union House – 19-52 homes
61) 18-28 Thornton Road – 9-34 homes
62) Asharia House, 50 Northwood Road – 7-23 homes
63) Croydon College Annexe, Barclay Road – 20-56 homes
64) 2 Zion Place -7-39 homes
65) Sea cadet training centre 34 The Waldrons – 7 -48 homes
66) The Good Companion Pub – 8-24 homes
67) Valley Park, Hesterman Way – 403-1092 homes
68) PC World, Trojan Way – 47-175 homes
69) Telephone Exchange, 88-90 Brighton Road – 19-77 homes
70) Ambassador House, Brighton Road – 26-145 homes
71) Superstore, Drury Crescent – 66-246 homes
72) Valley Leisure Park, Hesterman Way – 34-90 homes
73) Zodiac Court, London Road – 32-184 homes
74) Normanton Park Hotel – 14-38 homes
75) Tesco, 2 Purley Road – 172-990 homes
76) Homebase and Matalan, 60-66Purley Way – 128-482 homes
77) Wing Yip – 544 Purley Way – 69-26- homes
78) Furniture Village, 222 Purley Way – 32-90 homes
79) Decathlon, 2 Trafalgar Way – 59-221 homes
80) Norwood Heights, Westow Street – 39-223 homes
81) 104-112 Church Street – 23-64 homes
82) Northern Part of 5 Cairo New Road – 128-368 homes
83) Carolyn House, 22-26 Dingwall Road – 23-64 homes
84) Whitgift Centre – 40-1,000 homes
85) 145-49 London Road – 9-52 homes
86) Coombe Cross 2-4 South End – 37-105 homes
87) Day Lewis House, Benham Lane – 12-42 homes
88) Vistec House, Cavendish Road – 32-179 homes
89) Capella Court and Royal Oak Centre – 59-221 homes
90) 797 London Road – 7-25 homes
91) Beech House, Brighton Road – 36-45 homes
92) 100 Brighton Road – 10-37 homes
93) Palmerston House, 814 Brighton Road – 4-18 Road
94) Challenge House – 618 Mtcham Road – 36-136 homes
95) Stonemead House, 23-64 Grafton Quarter, Grafton Road – 28-131 homes
96) Grass area, Pawsons Road – 13-45 homes
97) Masonic Hall car park, Station Road – 7-39 homes
98) Rear of The Cricketers – 47 Shirley Road – 7-17 homes
99) Rear of The Beehive Pub , 45A Woodside Green – 7-25 homes
100) Canius House, 1 Scarborough Road – 30 homes
101) Corinthian House, 17 Lansdowne Road – 30-85 homes
102) 5 Bedford Park – 82-91 homes
103) Pinnacle House, Bedford Park – 44-125 homes
104) Croydon University Hospital, London Road, 77-290 homes
105) Coombe Farm, Oak Road – 90 homes
106) Stroud Green Pumping Station – 26-68 homes
107) Milton House -2-36 Milton Avenue – 74 homes
108) Surface Car Park, Wandle Road – 40 homes
109) 16-28 Pampisford Road – 91 homes
110) Kempsfield House, 1 Reedham Avenue Park – 12 homes
111) Waitrose, 110-112 Brighton Road – 55-90 homes
112) Stubbs Mead Depot, Factory Lane – 157-440 homes
113) 359-367 Limpsfield Road – 10-22 homes
114) 230 Addington Road – 11 homes
115) Norfolk House, 1-28 Wellesley Road – 125-255 homes
116) 1485-1489 London Road – 15-22 homes
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