Policy information sourced from the Croydon Local Plan
DM42: Purley
DM42.1
Within Purley District Centre and its environs, to ensure that proposals positively enhance and strengthen the character and facilitate growth, developments should:
- Reinforce the continuous building line which responds to the street layout and include ground floor active frontages;
- Complement the existing predominant building heights of 3 to 8 storeys, with a potential for a new landmark of up to a maximum of 16 storeys; and
- Demonstrate innovative and sustainable design, with special attention given to the detailing of frontages.
DM42.2:
In the environs of Reedham station, to create the sense of place and facilitate growth proposals should:
- Complement the existing predominant building heights of 2 storeys up to a maximum of 4 storeys;
- Reinforce the predominant building lines and frontages which positively respond to the form of the Brighton Road/Old Lodge Lane junction;
- Improve pedestrian and cycle permeability, accessibility and connectivity across the railway between Brighton Road, Watney Close, Aveling Close and Fairbairn Close; and
- Enhance the suburban shopping area character of this section of Brighton Road.
DM42.3:
In the area of the junction of Brighton Road and Purley Downs Road, to reduce the impact of Brighton Road as a linear route, clearly differentiate the area from Purley District Centre and Brighton Road (Sanderstead Road) Local Centre and strengthen the sense of place, proposals should:
- Retain and create open glimpses and vistas between buildings;
- Introduce building with landscapes that respond and reflect the layout of the 1930s blocks of Lansdowne Court and Purley Court; and
- Complement the existing predominant building heights of 2 storeys up to a maximum of 5 storeys.
DM42.4:
Within Purley allocate sites for development as set out in Table 11.10
For more information please see the Local Plan