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Latest News on Planning Issues in Addiscombe & East Croydon

July 2025 Planning Update

Please find below a list of the central planning applications that have been submitted or where significant developments in the Addiscombe West Ward may occur.

List of sites with active planning applications or building works underway

Bridge to Nowhere

Discharge of Condition Notice 24/03590/DISC Network Rail submitted a discharge application for the pedestrian bridge link from Cherry Orchard Road without installing a ticket line, which will result in Addiscombe residents having to walk across the full length of the bridge to get access to a ticket gate.

July 2025 Update: Following the campaign undertaken in November and December 2024  by Addiscombe West Labour Councillors, members and local residents with strong support from across Croydon East, over 630 residents sent in objections to the proposals of Network Rail not to install a ticket line on the Cherry Orchard Road side of the pedestrian bridge. No decision has been made.

April 2025 Update: At Full Council, Patricia gained assurance from Mayor Perry to work with other stakeholders to secure a ticket gate. Local resident Jerry Fitzpatrick has kept this issue on the Full Council agenda by asking public questions about the ticket gate in the April 2025 meeting. If members wish to ask public questions of the Elected Mayor and his Cabinet, please use the link below: How to ask a council question | Croydon Council

You may recall that in October 2024, Network Rail submitted their proposal to the Council Planning Department. These were

Condition 5: Details of servicing the bridge’s Kiosks by the East side of the new bridge.

Condition 6: the methodology for review of the pedestrian access arrangements to the bridge and station platforms.

On 10th April 2025, the council approved condition 5 however the council had considered the information provided for condition 6 to be insufficient. Network Rail withdrew this part of the application prior to the Council’s decision.

December 2024: Campaign toget residents to object to the 24/03590/DISC planning application : Article on how to object.

Summer 2024 Planning Condition Discharge application Application Number: 24/03590/DISC Network Rail submitted discharge application for the pedestrian bridge link from Cherry Orchard Road to
At the East Croydon Community Organization (ECCO) AGM on July 16th 2024 we heard from a representative of Network Rail who confirmed that currently, they have no immediate plans to open the bridge link from the new housing development on Cherry Orchard Road, which would offer a new route to walk over to the Lansdowne Road. Network Rail said they were still working on getting the funding to carry out the repairs needed to the pedestrian side of the bridge. They stated that funding issues were due to increased labour and material costs.

Network Road also publicly stated for the first time that they had no plans to install a ticket gate line. Network Rail had never mentioned this in any previous correspondence. Providing commuter access from Cherry Orchard Road into the station was a key reason Croydon Council granted planning permission for the pedestrian bridge and the Menta’s new housing development.

London Reconnections has a good overview of the history of this proposal. A pedestrian bridge between Cherry Orchard Road and Lansdowne Road was first proposed in the mid-2000s to increase the connectivity between Addiscombe and Croydon Town Centre. The idea was incorporated into the 2011 East Croydon Masterplan and was predicated on funding from Network Rail, Croydon Council (£6m) and developers’ contributions of land and budget. The bridge has a dual-track, one for access to the station and its platforms. The second (not currently used) is for a separate pedestrian link from Cherry Orchard Road to Lansdowne Road.

Croydon Area Remodelling Scheme (CARS):

East Croydon Station rebuild and Tackling the Croydon Bottleneck

Planning Application: Indefinitely delayed (July 2021) by the decision of the Conservative Government not to agree on the funding needed to take the development to the next stage. Evidence is the Government is more interested in funding rail schemes in the north than in London or the South East.

Latest information: Public Consultation on Network Rail’s CARS proposals was completed in 2020. Network Rail needs financial support from the Government to progress the rebuild of East Croydon, unblock the Croydon bottleneck at Selhurst Triangle, and replace Windmill Bridge.

Croydon Park Hotel, Addiscombe Grove

July 2025: Councillors have approached Croydon Council over rumours that the developers are not going ahead with the granted planning application, and instead have instructed surveyors to assess the building for use as temporary accommodation

July 2024: Approved at Planning Committee

August 2023 Update: Revised planning application 23/00872/FUL originally lodged in March 2023

The proposed development comprises the demolition of existing structures with basement retained, site preparation and enabling works, and the construction of two buildings with a shared basement and ground floor level, comprising heights of 9 storeys, part 33, part 36 storeys, to deliver 447 residential homes (Use Class C3), and 204 sqm of community floorspace (Use Class F.1/F.2), highways/access works, landscaping, car (disabled parking only) and cycle parking, and other associated works

  • Reduction in the height of the tower from 39/38 storeys to 36/33 storeys with 20% affordable housing maintained.
  • Reduction in the number of proposed units from 455 to 447 build-to-rent homes. • Reduction in height of villa building from 12 to 9 storeys to tie into the mansion building datum.
  • Reduce the height of the mansion building by 600mm to coordinate with the revised entrance level.

Number One Croydon / NLA Tower

Permitted Development Request to convert the NLA Tower/ Number One Croydon into residential flats.

24/02609/GPDO | Change of use from offices (Use Class E) to residential (Use Class C3) to create 250 self-contained flats under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) | One Croydon (Formerly NLA Tower) 12 -18 Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 0XT

British Telecom Pension Fund (BRITEL) wants to convert the site from a commercial tower to residential, featuring 158 x 1-bedroom and 92 x 2-bedroom units.

This is not a planning application but a permitted development request. Permitted Developments are a legacy of the last Tory Government. The Tory Government made it easier for owners of office blocks to turn their buildings into residential towers without meeting local or national planning requirements. As a result, in Croydon, we now have several sub-standard housing blocks, like Green Dragon House, where leaseholders are trapped in unsalable homes.

Thankfully, rules on permitted development were tightened up, and they must now meet fire safety standards and minimum space standards. Still, they are not obliged to provide affordable housing, which Croydon desperately lacks.

As local councillors, we are concerned about the impact of this decision on the local economy. Croydon’s local economy is already very fragile, and the loss of another employment site, right by East Croydon Station will weaken it further. Croydon needs homes, but it also needs jobs, and we contend that this is a prime office site and should be protected.

In November 2024 Officers approved the permitted development application.

The Glamorgan Pub, Cross Road

May 2025: Signs go up on building says the building has been sold to a Norbury based developers.

April 2025: The two planning applications for demolition and a new build were refused by Council officers 

24/03463/FUL: Application demolish the Glamorgan Public House: Refused April 2025

23/04106/FUL | Demolition of existing Public House building, construction of a new 8 storey building with roof terrace level and basement to re-provide a public house (A4) together with 24 flats with associated access, amenity space, and landscaping works. | The Glamorgan 81 Cherry Orchard Road Croydon CR0 6BE

The developers submitted a planning application in October 2023. 

See the article on the Addiscombe West website

Under the Localism Act 2011, the Save the Glamorgan group was able to add this valued site to the Council’s Asset of Community Value (AVC) register. This required the owner to notify the council of their intention to demolish or change the use of the building and provide time for a community group to raise the funds to purchase the asset. Being deemed as an AVC, Glamorgan has benefited from some protection for the last five years, whilst the Save the Glamorgan Group has worked tirelessly, with the support of your local councillors, to raise funding. To date, the protection period has expired, and a further application was deemed not necessary by the Save the Glamorgan Group.

During the five years, some may claim that the owner has encouraged the dilapidation of this building. This may have reduced the selling price but substantially increased the renovation costs for the Glamorgan’s reincarnation. The campaign group are not in a position to purchase this valued asset, and councillors have received report that the site has been sold to new owners, property developers who are Croydon-based. Councillors are seeking further updates on the intentions for this site.

Previous History
Latest article: March 2021 Residential Planning Application to demolish the Glamorgan Pub withdrawn – Addiscombe West

Planning application: 19/05926/FUL. (Withdrawn March 2021)  Demolition of the existing public house building and the construction of a new building to re-provide a public house, together with the erection of 36 residential units (Use Class C3) and associated means of access and landscaping. | The Glamorgan 81 Cherry Orchard Road Croydon CR0 6BE

April 2022: No information has been provided by the developer/owner since 2021. The building remains squatted and in Poor condition, with the ground floor bar and restaurant extensively vandalised, with much of the lead stripped from the roof.

December 2021: The owners of the Glamorgan Public rejected an offer from a local consortium to buy the premises at their current market value (approximately £1m). The developer claims the Public House is worth over £2.2m (they originally paid £1.4M from Punch Taverns).

July 25 2021, Developer Butler Wallsal Ltd informed Croydon Council that they intend to sell the site after denying that they would submit a new application for months. According to the legislation regarding Assets of Community Value, Croydon Council gave the community until midnight on 23 July 2021 to express an intention to bid for the site. The choice to bid must be from a charity, a community interest company, or a company limited by guarantee. On 23 July 2021, a group of members connected to the Save the Glamorgan Campaign set up a Company limited by guarantee called the Glamorgan Phoenix. It informed the Council of its intention to bid and requested that the Council invoke the six-month legal moratorium on the developer to stop them from selling. The group is waiting for a formal response from the Council.

June 2021. The owners of the Public House, Butler Walsall Limited, have informed Croydon Council of their intention to sell the building. As the building is an Asset of Community Value, there is a 6-week moratorium to allow a community interest group – i.e. a legally constituted organisation such as a charity, a company limited by guarantee that does not distribute profits amongst its members, an Industrial and Provident Society, a Community Interest Company (CIC) or a Parish Council -to express an interest to bid. If this is submitted in time, the community will have another six months to formalise its bid.

March 2021 Planning Application withdrawn by developers Butlers Walsall Limited following concerns expressed by the Mayor of London and Croydon Council. Applicants claim they will resubmit a revised application.

Save the Glamorgan Campaign: Residents have come together and are campaigning to return the building to its original use as a Public House. They can be contacted via their Facebook page, Save the Glamorgan Pub.

Leslie Arms, 62 Lower Addiscombe Road

July 2025 update: Two planning applications 25/00979/FUL: 25/00980/LBC   : refused by officers. Two other planning applications have gone to appeal.

May 2025: Multiple planning applications submitted by the owner Anwar Ansari for the building. Applicant states that he can’t deliver the  (19/02765/FUL) application and listed building consent (19/02766/LBC) for proposed works to the Grade II listed Leslie Arms public house on grounds of unviability.  He is seeking to replace the proposed community centre with business use

25/00979/FUL: Change of use of ground floor and basement levels from public house (Use Class Sui Generis) to flexible commercial/business/service space (Use Class E), and Associated alterations including formation of stairs to basement in forecourt with metal balustrade and installation of glazed surface in forecourt.

8th July 2025 Update: Permission refused
Permission Refused Reason(s) for refusal :

1 The proposed change of use would result in the unjustified loss of a public house and introduces a Class E town centre use in an out-of-centre location without adequate justification. The development would fail to comply with Policies HC7 and E1 of the London Plan (2021) and Policies DM8 and DM21 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018).

2 The proposed external alterations, would result in less than substantial harm to the character, appearance and setting of the Grade II listed building. No public benefits have been identified that would outweigh this harm, contrary to paragraphs 206-208 of the NPPF, Policy HC1 of the London Plan (2021), and Policies SP4, DM10, and DM18 of the Croydon Local Plan (2018).

3 The application fails to demonstrate that sufficient cycle parking facilities can be provided within the site. As a result, the proposal fails to comply with the requirements of Policy T5 of the London Plan (2021).

4 The application fails to provide sufficient ecological information, particularly in relation to the potential presence of protected species. As such, the development fails to meet the requirements of London Plan Policy G6, Croydon Local Plan Policies DM27 and SP7, and does not allow the Local Planning Authority to discharge its statutory duty under Section 40 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006.

5 The application fails to provide sufficient information to demonstrate that the development would achieve the highest standards of fire safety. The proposal is therefore contrary to Policy D12 of the London Plan (2021).

25/00980/LBC : Listed Building Consent: Change of use of ground floor and basement levels from public house (Use Class Sui Generis) to flexible commercial/business/service space (Use Class E), Associated external alterations including formation of stairs to basement in forecourt with metal balustrade and installation of glazed surface in forecourt, and Associated internal alterations involving blocking off of internal door openings, formation of stairs from ground floor to basement, conversion of ground floor storeroom into a toilet, erection of partition walls to form a ground floor lobby, removal of partition walls, and erection of partition walls within basement level to form five (5) rooms:

Update July 9th 2025: Listed Building Consent refused. “The proposed external and internal alterations, by reason of their design, materials, and layout, would result in less than substantial harm to the architectural and historic significance of the Grade II listed building.”

25/00808/LBC: /LBC | External alterations including blocking off of door openings, demolition of existing outbuilding, formation of outdoor seating area within forecourt, formation of a roof terrace, formation of stairs to basement in forecourt with metal balustrade, installation of door and window openings, and installation of glazed surface in forecourt, and Internal alterations involving blocking off of internal door openings, installation of door opening, formation of stairs from ground floor to basement, conversion of ground floor storeroom into a toilet, erection of partition walls to form a ground floor lobby and self-contained flats, and removal of partition walls | 62 Lower Addiscombe Road Croydon CR0 6AB

July 8th Update: Appeal Lodged by application to the Planning Inspectorate.

25/00720/FUL:  Erection of a two-storey semi-detached dwellinghouse (Use Class C3), Associated amenity and cycle storage spaces, and Associated alterations:

July 8th Update: Applicant has appealed this decision on grounds on non-determination within timescales. You can read both the applicant appeal, and the Council’s response.

April 2025 Update: the original features of the ground floor bar are being retained as part of its conversion to a community centre. Work continues very slowly on the interior of the building in line with the planning applications approved to turn the ground floor and basement into a community centre.

Feb 2025 Discharge of 2019 Condition: Discharge of condition 3 (CLP) attached to PP 19/02765/FUL for Proposed works to the Grade II listed Leslie Arms public house. Works include change of use to the existing pub to support new community use/cafe, demolition of the existing rear hall to provide a new rear extension community space and 2 additional residential units. 

2019 Planning Application Proposed works to the Grade II listed Leslie Arms public house. Works include change of use to the existing pub to support new community use/cafe, demolition of the existing rear hall to provide a new rear extension community space and 2 additional residential units.

City Link, Addiscombe Road

Planning application. Submitted June 2021. 21/02912/FUL for Demolition of existing building and redevelopment of the site to provide a part 14-storey and part 28-storey building with basement, comprising 498 co-living units and associated communal amenity spaces (Use Class Sui Generis), 85 residential units (Use Class C3), commercial space (Use Class E) and flexible commercial and community space (Use Class E/F1) at ground/mezzanine level, together with roof terraces and balconies, wheelchair accessible parking spaces, refuse and cycle storage and associated landscaping and public realm works including removal of subways

July 2025 Update: New fire safety regulation which means that tall buildings need to have a second staircase has meant that the developers are reconsidering their plans.

April 2025 Update: Previous owner, Whittington Investments sold City Link House to Cheyne Capital Ltd, inclusive of planning permission for 485 co-living units and 84 affordable homes in a 28 storey tower and a 14 storey block.  Local councillors had opposed this application on the grounds of over development and its impact on the view of NLA Tower. We are also concerned that Croydon was losing too many offices sites and this is impacting on Croydon’s ability to grow its local economy and may contribute to the decline of the Town Cenre as a place of employment.

Proposals: Residential Development. To replace office blocks with 498 Co-living units (student accommodation-style micro-flats for adults) and 85 affordable homes. Pre-application consultation with residents in 2020. Link to the 5th State’s website. The future of City Link House, Croydon (fifthstate-croydon.co.uk). A planning application is yet to be submitted. A pre-application hearing at Croydon Planning Committee on 15th October 2020 can be seen via the Council’s webcast.

Councillors’ objections to this scheme can be found here.

Outcomes: 27th January 2022 The Planning Committee refuses the planning application because the proposed building is far too tall at 91M, as it will harm Number One Croydon (NLA Tower) and the Townscape around it.

May 2023 update: Refusal granted by Croydon Council planning Committee was overturn on appeal

Royal Mail Sorting Office, Addiscombe Road

Planning Application 24/00325/FUL: Rocket Padel meanwhile use of site

Network Rail is the owner of the site: They have signed a meanwhile use agreement with the Swedish company Rocket Padel to turn the site into an outdoor Padel Centre. See their press release.

Planning Application 24/00325/FUL:
Change of use to temporary ‘padel tennis’ facility (Class E (d)), with erection of associated buildings/structures and other associated works. (Approved October 2024)

Previous History
Planning application: 21/01831/PAD submitted April 2021. Application to demolish the building. It was submitted by Network Mail, which bought the site from Hyde Housing and will be used as a site office to rebuild East Croydon Station.

Demolition of Royal Mail Sorting Office June 16th 2021, Croydon Council approved the Demolition planning application. Network Rail The current basemen was retained. Now Demolished

Previous Applications: 13/03126/p Royal Mail got outline planning permission to demolish the sorting office and replace  it with a 21-storey residential tower block of 201 flats. This application has now lapsed.

2-8 Altyre Road (AIG Building)

Permitted Development application: 24/04220/GPDO Change of use from commercial (Use Class E) to residential (Use Class C3) to provide 132 flats under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended)

 In January 2025, Local Councillors opposed this application on the following grounds

1) Loss of an employment site, which will have a detrimental impact on the Croydon Town Centre economy.

2) Quality of Accommodation. Most of the flats are studios. Concerned about layout, noise and sound transmission. Concern about adequate sound insulation from the railway line. 

3) Inadequate provision or communal facilities to meet the needs of the residents. 

4) lack of dual aspects, and concerns about heating and ventilation, especially overheating in the summer, especially on south-facing sides of the building.

5)  Lack of affordable housing. 

6) Ground floor layout doesn’t provide privacy for occupants of studio flats near the busy pavements and the entrance to the building.

February 2025: Approved by Croydon Council officers as permitted development applications do not go to planning committee.

Meat Packers Site, Cherry Orchard Road

Southern Housing Development 40-80 Cherry Orchard Road

Planning Application 18/03320/FUL Decision approved November 2019: Demolition of the existing buildings, erection of a 7 to 9-storey building to provide 120 residential units and associated amenity space, hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatment, refuse storage, cycle parking and car parking with associated vehicle accesses.

July 2025 Update: Southern have provided the following update “ it’s taken longer than we anticipated to finalise the investment paper that we need to take through our governance channels, to obtain the necessary approval that will allow us to recommence on site.  As you can imagine, the financial performance for this site is now very negative and we are having to finetune the paper, in accordance with recent Board feedback on another, very similar, project. 

We will be submitting the paper for approval later in the month, but it will certainly be considered at the first of it’s two governance levels by the end of July.  The second one will not be until August.  With these dates in mind, we would hope to be back working on site by the end of the summer.

April 2025 Update: Posted to Facebook following a report that Southern Housing incurred a £36 million loss when Henley Construction ceased operations.

June 2024: There remains a lack of progress in building out the Southern Housing Scheme on Cherry Orchard Road,  and the site has become an eyesore. Cllr Clive Fraser recently emailed the Chief Executive for an update on when construction will start. Southern Housing states that they still intend to develop the site but that material and labour costs have risen. Plus, twice in succession, the builder they have employed has gone into administration.

April 2022: Demolition of the building is complete. Foundations have been dug, and the concrete frame is rising from the ground.

Autumn 2021: Cherryfield Meatpackers have sold their site to Optivo Housing and vacated the premises in May 2021. The company has moved to a new location near Gatwick. The tenure proposals by the original applicant, Crest Nicholson, have been amended by Optivo. The number of units is reduced to 116, all of which will be affordable (shared ownership or affordable rent). Demolition started in late July 2021. Henley Homes will carry out the building works. The completion date is set for Late Summer or Early Autumn 2023.

Morello Quarters, Cherry Orchard Road (Twin Towers)

July 2025 Update: Sir Robert McAlpine has finished on site, and the first of the two towers is ready to let as a purely Private Let Development.  The owners are marketing the buildings as the Blossoms, and you can see more about the buildings from their website The Blossoms | Apartments for rent in Croydon (theblossomscroydon.co.uk)

Tesco will be opening a store on the ground floor of the most northerly block.

Menta Ltd employed Sir Robert McAlpine to deliver the new housing on their Cherry Orchard Road site and the Cherry Orchard Gardens site across the road.  The development consists of Twin 25-storey towers and will be home to 338 residential apartments. Between the twin towers will be the bridge link to East Croydon Station. The developer, alongside Network Rail, has promised the link since 2011. If Network Rail keeps their side of the bargain, this new pedestrian link could open in 2023 and allow residents to walk across from Cherry Orchard Road to the Lansdowne Road entrance to East Croydon Station.

The original proposals for the site went back to 2009 and included a 55-storey skyscraper. The then Conservative Council approved a planning application 11/00981/P including a 55-storey tower despite receiving over 600 objections from residents, whose main concerns were the height of the building; at 160m, it would have been over twice the height of NLA Tower (No 1 Croydon) and the low percentage of affordable homes. The planning application was never enacted, and the site stays empty until the 2017 planning application.

Garcia Industrial Unit, Rear of 217-219 Davidson Road, CR0 6DP

24/03919/OUT for Outline application for demolition of all existing buildings (including 217 Davidson Road)  and the erection of 9 x 3 storey terrace houses (use Class C3), with landscaping, amenity areas, car and cycle parking, refuse and recycling stores, and vehicle and pedestrian access from Davidson Road.

12th June 2025 Planning Committee: Outline Planning Decision approved. Applicants will still have to get approval from Croydon Planning Department on a number of conditions regarding the external areas.

Dec 2021 Planning application:  December 2021 Planning Application submitted by Trinity Square Developer of the existing Industrial Warehouse on Davidson Road. “21/06378/FUL for Demolition of all existing works buildings and demolition of the house at 217 Davidson Road, and the erection at the rear of part 3, part 4 storey block of flats to provide 22 residential units (use Class C3), with landscaping, amenity areas, car and cycle parking, refuse and recycling stores, and vehicle and pedestrian access from Davidson Road.

December 2021 Application was refused in 2022, and planning inspector also rejected their applicants appeal.

Warehouse, 130 Oval Road

February 2023: 23/00548/LE: Use of land for residential purposes commensurate with planning permission 05/02393/RES

Approved April 2023: Lawful Development Certificate Granted: “The development works associated with application reference 05/02393/RES had commenced on site prior to the planning permission expiring. As such, planning permission reference 05/02393/RES would remain extant and the development is hereby considered to be lawful.”

Planning Application 21/03040/OUT | Outline planning application (for access, scale, and layout only) for demolition of existing unoccupied warehouse buildings. Erection of 2 x part 2-storey, part 3-storey and part 4-storey buildings providing 36 units with associated cycle and bin storage, amenity space and landscaping. | Warehouse 130 Oval Road Croydon CR0 6BL.

Details of the Councillors’s objection can be found here https://www.addiscombewest.org.uk/councillors-planning-objections-for-the-warehouse-130-oval-road/

June 2022 Update: The application was refused on 30 May 2022. A letter from the Council outlining the reasons for refusal can be found here.

Rear Of 79 – 83 Oval Road

December 2024: 24/04324/OUT : Outline planning application for the demolition of existing buildings and the change of use from Class E (light industrial) to facilitate the erection of a hostel (Use Class Sui Generis), with all matters reserved.

Refused July 2025; grounds include impact on neighbouring properties.

March 2024: 24/01082/FUL : Erection of a four-storey detached building consisting of 9 serviced apartments (class C1 use) and provision of associated landscaping, cycle, and refuse storage

Permission Refused November 2024:

19 Morland Avenue, CR0 6EA

25/01096/FUL | July 2025 Demolition of the existing detached dwelling and erection of a two-storey building with accommodation in the roofspace to provide 9 self-contained residential units with associated access, landscaping, amenity space, refuse and cycle storage. | 19 Morland Avenue Croydon CR0 6EA

The site is developable and can be intensified, but I have several concerns that need to be addressed. (Cllr Sean Fitzsimons)

  1. Rear Private balconies: The metal railings do not provide any privacy for occupants and will visually impact neighbouring properties if items are left on the balcony. The balustrade should either be a solid panel or panels with a low level of perforation.
  2. Front Basement railings: These don’t provide the privacy that occupants should expect. The railings should be replaced with solid panels or panels with a low level of perforation.
  3. The refuse area is inadequate in terms of the proposed number of flats and occupants.
  4. Cycling facilities are inadequate for the number of flats and occupants
  5. Landscaping of the front. Lack of greenery, some more mature trees or bushes are needed, especially to match the number of front gardens in this row of houses.
  6. Rear Garden: Lack of information regarding landscaping

9 Morland Avenue

July 2025: Proposed 2 storey, 3-dwelling building to rear of 9 Morland Avenue Planning Application 25/01903/FUL

The proposed erection of a two-storey terrace of 3no. homes to the rear of 9 Morland Avenue, with a vehicular access, car parking space and other associated site alterations.

Cherry Orchard Gardens

April 2022: The building has now had its topping out ceremony, so the superstructure is complete, and the following stages are the completion of the cladding and fitting out of the flats. Clarion’s marketing arm, Latimer, is marketing the shared ownership flats on their website. They are calling the development of Crescent Gardens and waiting for details of prices and details.

July 2021 Update: This was a former council estate of 48 Council homes. The Conservative Council sold to Menta in 2007 for £8m after reneging on the previous Labour Council’s deal to redevelop the site for social housing and shared ownership in 2006. The buildings were demolished in 2011 by Menta, and the site lay empty until work started in 2020. The 2011 Planning application provided 72 affordable homes, though most were shared ownership units.

The 2011 planning application was never acted upon. The site continued to lay empty until a new application was submitted in 2017 and approved in 2018 for a five to nine-storey building, which will provide 118 units for shared ownership and social rent and will be owned by Clarion Housing Association. Local Councillors successfully protected the Plane Trees from being cut down as part of the planning approval, which was an improvement on the 2011 application, which, if implemented, would have seen all the Plane trees cut down. Instead, the building has been set back at the junction of Oval Road and Cherry Orchard Road to create a small pocket park for residents to enjoy, protecting the Plane Trees.

30-38 Addiscombe Road

April 2022 Update: The tower has been topped out, and the building cladding is underway. The development is called Addiscombe Oaks by L&Q Homes. L&Q are now marketing their homes for the Addiscombe Oaks New Homes site.

Croydon Council granted planning permission for this site in 2019. L&Q has promised to deliver 50% of the 137 new homes as affordable. L&Q has been on site since 2020 and should be complete by 2022/23.

18/06102/FUL: Redevelopment of the site to provide 137 residential units across an eight and 18-storey building with associated landscaping and access arrangements.

L&Q secures planning permission for 137 new homes in Croydon

As part of their commitment to support the local community, L&Q and their contractors have provided resources and labour to improve Dartnell Park in Addiscombe in support of the Park’s Friends Group.

Addiscombe Grove

This Pocket Living residential scheme 17/02680/FUL on Addiscombe Grove was first approved in November 2017. “Demolition of existing buildings including parking garage and redevelopment of the sites for a part 9, 20 and 21 storey building comprising 153 residential dwellings (Class C3) and a single storey sub-station”.

Forty-one of the units will be for shared ownership, provided by Optivo Housing. Pocket Living claims their 112 one-bed units will be “genuinely affordable homes designed for local first-time buyers on moderate incomes”.

Addiscombe Grove is a modular build that Pocket claimed would result in a “quicker, less disruptive manner” than a conventional residential building. Still, the build time has been one of the slowest in Croydon, and despite being on-site since the summer of 2018, it does not look like the building will be finished until 2022.

April 2022 Update: Local Councillors have recently been informed that the building has achieved Practical Completion, which means it is now ready for occupation.

Pocket is marketing their homes on their website. Optivo is now selling their homes on their website.