Policy information sourced from the Croydon Local Plan
DM6: Development in Shopping Parades
The Council will ensure that the vitality and viability of the borough’s Shopping Parades is maintained and increased and that they continue to serve local communities by ensuring new development proposals and changes of use on the ground floor are in accordance with Table 5.7.
| Use | Expansion of existing units or newly proposed units |
|---|---|
| A1 | Changes of use or proposals which do not result in an increase in floor space of the overall Parade are acceptable in principle. Other development will be subject to the provisions of Policy DM8: Development in edge of centre and out of centre locations. |
| A2 – A4 and Community Uses | Acceptable in principle as long as it does not result in more than 50% of the ground floor of units (within the entirety of the Parade) falling outside the A1 Use Class. |
| A5 | Acceptable in principle as long as it does not result in more than 50% of the ground floor of such units (within the entirety of the Parade) falling outside the A1 Use Class, allows for a range of A2-A4 uses as well as A5, provides an active frontage, provides adequate arrangements for dealing with waste (including customers’ waste) and for any delivery service intended and is accredited in accordance with the Council’s Eat Well Croydon scheme. |
| B1 (Change of use only) | Changes of use to office, research & development and light industrial workshops are acceptable in principle as long as it does not result in more than 50% of the ground floor of units (within the entirety of the Parade) falling outside the A1 Use Class, allows for a range of A2-A4 uses as well as B1 and provides an active frontage. |
| All Other Uses (including new development of B1) | Unless it relates to a Community Use or change of use to B1 use, proposals involving an increase of non Class A ground floor space within parades will be refused. |
For more information please see the Local Plan