Policy information sourced from the Grove Park Neighbourhood Plan

NC2 Grove Park Neighbourhood Regeneration Area

  1. Proposals for the redevelopment of Grove Park Neighbourhood Centre should be accompanied by a master plan and will be supported where they:
    1. Form part of a mixed-use development in line with Policies BE1-CE22 and SA3, SA4 and SA8.
    2. Integrate with existing heritage assets and buildings of townscape merit, (including the Baring Hall Hotel Public House) in terms of setting, built form and orientation.
    3. Enhance retail, leisure, entertainment and cultural provision within the centre, including opportunities for outdoor seating.
    4. Ensure the neighbourhood centre maintains a traditional mansion-block high street vernacular and structure, to create a walkable, vibrant centre which takes inspiration from the area’s heritage.
    5. Incorporates healthy-by-design and Healthy Streets design principles, with active, welcoming shop frontages and contiguous facades following traditional shop front design principles.
    6. Ensure retail units are of an appropriate size to maximise opportunities for small independent businesses.
    7. Provide active town centre uses (Use Class A, D, and appropriate B uses) at ground floor level and residential units (use-class C3) or offices (use-class B1) on upper floors.
    8. Create a boulevard with trees, planting and a segregated cycleway, to help manage traffic flows and improve safety and, walkability and a sense of arrival.
    9. Incorporate a ‘gateway’ entrance into the proposed wider Linear Natural Parkland Nature Trail (in line with Policy GI2).
    10. Mitigate the impacts of traffic noise, air pollution and micro-climate conditions through the use of appropriate materials, building and window orientations and design features.
    11. Incorporates design principles in line with Policy BE2.
    12. Provide sustainable travel options in line with Policies T1-T2, Including, where possible, underground parking on medium density schemes
    13. Incorporate a Green Infrastructure-led approach to achieve environmental and biodiversity net-gain to improve the public realm (incorporating street trees, rain gardens, shrub planting, green roofs, hedging, and flower meadows wherever possible) connecting the centre to the north and south green spaces in line with the community’s Linear Natural Parkland Nature Trail Vision and Policy GI2 and GI4. Incorporates a landscape scheme that also considers wider environmental net-gains such as permeable surfaces to alleviate surface water runoff and shading, in line with Policies SE1-SE3.
    14. Incorporate a landscape scheme that also considers wider environmental net-gains such as permeable surfaces to alleviate surface water runoff and shading, in line with Policies SE1-SE3.


      Development proposals should reflect the previous co-design efforts of the community and the ongoing participation of the community in the preparation and production of a detailed masterplan and design guidance for the neighbourhood centre is strongly encouraged.

For more information and policy context please see the Grove Park Neighbourhood Plan