Sir Simon Milton, deputy mayor of
The £350,000 funding package for the OAPF was signed off at the Develop Croydon conference at the Croydon Park Hotel yesterday.
It is the first Greater London Authority OAPF to be drawn up in the Greater London area. OAPFs are supported by the mayor’s London Plan and focus on creating development frameworks for areas where substantial brownfield land can be assembled for major regeneration schemes. Other OAPFs focus on parts of
Rouse said that now Croydon was ‘open for business’ and looking to work in partnership with the private sector in order to make sure Croydon delivers this time.
“This is not like plans of the past,” he said. “We must accept our legacy and adopt a plan-led approach to the art of the possible. The message is that we are flexible and open for business. What we are about now is agreements between the private and public sector about what should be done and how.”
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Croydon council’s Croydon Metropolitan Centre proposals focus on five masterplans that have an indicative capacity of 7,500 new jobs and at least 10,000 new homes.
The five masterplans are the East Croydon Masterplan led by Studio Egret West; the West Croydon Masterplan led by East; the College Green Masterplan led by Make and the Mid Croydon Masterplan, to be commissioned shortly; and the Wellesley Road Masterplan, led by OKRA.
Speaking at the conference, which was attended by delegates focused on development opportunities across Croydon, Martin Scholar, OAPF co-ordinator at the GLA said that while full details of the OAPF could not be discussed there would be a greater focus on retaining the town centre’s often lambasted 1960s architecture.
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