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  • Investment Opportunities
  • Opportunity Areas
  • Area of Intensification
  • Central activity Zone

Town Centres

  • International or metropolitan
  • Major
  • District
  • Borough Boundary
  • Green Belt
  • Metropolitan open land / Other open spaces
  • Rail station
  • Railway track
  • Foreshore
  • Water

Investment Opportunities

  1. Purley Way Masterplan
  2. North End Quarter

Investment Opportunities

Purley Way Masterplan

Purley Way Masterplan

Croydon Council was awarded funding from the Mayor of London’s Homebuilding Capacity Fund to develop a holistic design-led masterplan and delivery strategy for the Purley Way. The council worked alongside a multidisciplinary team and local communities to develop a transformative vision for the future of the Purley Way area — from a hostile and divisive road, into a green city street which accommodates a cluster of four new distinct mixed-use centres. Each centre has a clear purpose and response to positive elements of local character and supports integration of existing and new communities. The masterplan co-ordinates a significant increase in the delivery of well-designed, sustainable homes, whilst also ensuring protection and intensification of designated employment areas, and enhancement of physical, social, cultural and digital infrastructure (including its public spaces, green, blue and sustainable transport networks). The spatial strategies within the masterplan have directly informed policies within a new Purley Way transformation area chapter in Croydon’s Local Plan Review. The masterplan will be adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document following the adoption of Croydon’s Local Plan Review.

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North End Quarter

North End Quarter

The vision for the North End Quarter transformation area (as included in Croydon’s Local Plan Review) is to develop a sustainable, resilient, and safe destination for all. It will be a high-quality neighbourhood that complements and supports the surrounding masterplan areas in the town centre and includes retail as a balanced part of a more diverse mix of uses that delivers its future vitality and viability. The North End Quarter will build on its history to be an attractive visitor and resident destination with a vibrant public and cultural offer alongside retail and town centre uses. It will be an inclusive destination for all, including a network of streets, public spaces and facilities that improves connectivity, celebrates its heritage and a unique local character with green infrastructure and sustainable transport embedded throughout. 

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As one of London’s largest and most diverse boroughs, Croydon is a fantastic place to live, work and spend time, with all the benefits of close proximity to the rest of London and the south east.

The borough is made up of diverse communities that stretch from Crystal Palace to Coulsdon and from New Addington to Purley; with bustling district centres, plentiful green spaces and a urban town at its centre.

One of London’s largest commercial districts outside the centre, Croydon is a major hub of activity for workers and visitors; its excellent transport links include the iconic trams.

The borough has a richly diverse cultural scene and is known as the birthplace of music genres from punk to dubstep and the home of grime legend Stormzy. The renowned Brit School is continuing this legacy by nurturing a new generation of performers, with past alumni of Adele, Amy Winehouse and Tom Holland.

Croydon’s greatest strength is its people. London’s most populous borough, Croydon is home to 390,800 residents. Caring, passionate and principled, they take huge pride in coming together to improve their borough and help their communities.

Over the past decade, we have seen huge investment, regeneration and growth in our borough. Croydon remains an attractive and important part of London for ongoing growth and investment – growth from which we want to see all our communities benefit.

Population

Census 2021 Estimates 390,800

Population projections 2050 just under 500,000

Homes

London plan new homes (ten-year target) 20,790

Building council homes for Londoners (four-year programme) 888

  • Croydon is the largest of all the London boroughs in terms of population, with approximately 390,800 residents
  • Croydon’s residential property is affordable relative to London. Residential property sales have remained stable over the last 5 years, with a slight increase since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  • Croydon is a hub for Government & public services, accounting for just under 14,000 employees.

Steve Dennington, Head of Spatial Planning, Planning and Strategic Transport

steve.dennington@croydon.gov.uk

Carol Squires, Head of Employment, Skills and Economy

Carol.squires@croydon.gov.uk

Una Foster, Senior Economic Development Officer

Una.Foster@croydon.gov.uk

 

 

  • Croydon is fast becoming the innovation centre of the south. An outer borough that connects London to the Brighton corridor with Gatwick only 20 minutes away providing a wealth of opportunity, employment and international connections that drives innovation and trade.
  • In 2023, Croydon Council commissioned PRD to develop an Economic Analysis & Inward Investment Action Plan, which will help the council direct investment in the next few years towards areas with acute need and/or projects with high potential impact.
  • Alongside extensive quantitative evidence, engagement has been key to capturing qualitative, on-the-ground insight from partners operating in Croydon. To understand priorities for the future, challenges, barriers to operating and growing, and capacity for partnership and delivery of growth. This work is ongoing, and Croydon looks forward to it outcomes and working through the action plan.
  • 2024 sees the arrival of the Croydon Urban room. The Croydon Urban Room, is a physical home for public participation in the shaping of Croydon’s regeneration; fostering meaningful connection between people and place; past, present and future. Planning is top-down, political and inaccessible to many. At Croydon we are seeking to disrupt this norm and make planning populist, through a physical and online space for exhibition, events and active participation that is accessible and part of everyday life. Our overarching aim is to democratise access and understanding of the planning process specifically through education and open dialogue, focusing particularly on underrepresented communities.
  • We see this as the fundamental step in ensuring that the built environment of Croydon is for all that live, work and visit here.

The Croydon Mayoral Business Plan sets the direction, building on the hopes and aspirations of our residents and businesses. The plan will transform the council into one that delivers sound and sustainable local government services, and in so doing will transform our borough into one that Croydon residents can once again be proud to call home.

We will support the regeneration of our town and district centres, deliver a vibrant London Borough of Culture and convene partners, developers, investors and Croydon’s diverse communities to create economic opportunity for all and enable residents to develop the skills needed to access it.  

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