Policy information sourced from the Croydon Local Plan
DM3: Vacant Building Credit
DM3.1:
The Council will promote the re-use or redevelopment of existing buildings by applying a vacant building credit such that affordable housing requirements will only apply to the net increase in floor space resultant from development of buildings which have been:
- Vacant for a period of at least eighteen months prior to the granting of planning permission; and
- Marketed for their lawful use (or uses which could be lawful under the General Permitted Development Order) throughout the period they have been vacant.
DM3.2:
Vacant building credit will not be applied to development proposals or to proposals to modify S106 agreements for schemes which are the same as or similar to an extant or recently expired planning permission where:
- A similar planning permission is one where there is less than a 25% increase in the proposed residential and non-residential floor space and where the overall residential floor space is more than half that of the existing or recently expired permission; and
- A recently expired permission is one that lapsed within the previous two years prior to the granting of consent of the new planning permission.
For more information please see the Local Plan