Tower block with 230 flats to replace Croydon town centre car park

Croydon municipality centre could suffer 66 car park spaces arsenic approved plans for a 33-storey tower block spell connected the market. 230 flats, a gym and communal areas could beryllium housed connected the erstwhile bureau artifact tract if readying issues tin beryllium resolved.

Plans for 1 of Croydon’s newest skyscraper flats person moved guardant arsenic the existent property institution freeholder looks for a purchaser to instrumentality connected the approved project.

Planning support for the tract was approved successful July 2022, but Waitling Real Estate believes it whitethorn necessitate further enactment regarding caller requirements for a 2nd stairwell.

Since the erstwhile Columbus House bureau gathering was demolished, an NCP-operated car parkland has occupied the projected improvement tract astatine 3 Edridge Road, conscionable disconnected the engaged A232.

The car parkland lies betwixt the Edridge Road Community Health Centre and Leon House, a erstwhile bureau gathering precocious converted into residential apartments. It presently has 66 spaces disposable 24/7 and, according to Waitling, generates an yearly income of £67,200.

The absorption statement for this car parkland has expired, though discussions for a short-term licence are ongoing. Despite this, the car parkland volition cease to beryllium wholly erstwhile plans to physique the caller Edridge Road developments statesman successful earnest.

The completed improvement volition diagnostic 2 co-joined buildings connected by a shared crushed level with abstracted entrances for residents. The 11-storey operation volition connection 43 affordable, self-contained apartments, portion the taller 33-storey operation volition supply 184 market-rate flats and 3 shared-ownership apartments.

The plan incorporates respective greenish spaces, including a first-floor play country for families and an elevated play and plot abstraction connected the 11th floor. Penthouse residents volition payment from backstage extortion terraces with views crossed Croydon and the wider London skyline.

Waitling is presently selling the improvement accidental but told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that immoderate further readying issues indispensable beryllium addressed earlier construction takes place.

According to Tom Colyer of Waitling, the improvement indispensable present question readying support for a 2nd staircase successful the operation blocks. As of September 30, 2026, each caller residential buildings implicit 18 meters indispensable person a 2nd staircase halfway built into them.

The authorities introduced the request to amended the information of residential buildings pursuing the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The reasoning down the determination was that the 2 staircases would supply aggregate flight routes successful an emergency.

Both Croydon’s section program and the GLA’s London program dictate that immoderate caller large-scale developments bounds the availability of car parking spaces and alternatively promote the usage of progressive travel. As a result, the caller improvement is not expected to regenerate immoderate of the mislaid car parkland spaces.