Chatsworth Road Conservation Area

You will need planning permission for the following kinds of development in Chatsworth Road.

The conservation area is under pressure from a number of changes which could result in threats to its special character and appearance. The following development rights will therefore be removed from properties within the conservation area:

  • the extension, improvement or other alteration of a dwelling house
  • all alterations to the roof of a dwelling house
  • the construction of a porch outside  any external door of a dwelling house
  • the provision within the curtilage of a dwelling house of hard surfaces
  • the erection, construction, maintenance, improvement or alteration of a gate, fence, wall or other means of enclosure
  • construction of a means of access to the highway
  • the painting of the exterior of any building or work
  • the installation of solar PV or solar thermal equipment (solar panels)

The Council has confirmed a non-immediate Article 4 Direction and requires that planning permission be sought for those types of development listed above. The delegated report setting out the Council's approach to serving the Article 4 Direction is available to download below.

Owners/occupiers within the conservation area have been made aware of the confirmation of the Direction by letter and public notices have been published in a local newspaper and erected in the local vicinity. Copies of the letter and public notice can be downloaded below.  The Secretary of State has also been notified in accordance with Paragraph 1, sub-paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015. The Article 4 Direction applies to the whole of the Chatsworth Road Conservation Area. A copy of the Direction, including a map defining the area covered is available from the download section below.

For further information:

  • email spatialplanning@croydon.gov.uk
  • write to: Spatial Planning Service, 6th floor Zone B, Development & Environment, Bernard Weatherill House, 8 Mint Walk, Croydon, CR0 1EA

The Article 4 Direction came into force on 21 January 2016.

Chatsworth Road conservation area documents