- Client
- Brick By Brick
- Sector
- Planning & Development
- Location
- Croydon
- How we helped
- Planning Consultancy
Nick is a chartered town planner and development surveyor with over 25 years' experience, gained across the residential, commercial, retail and industrial sectors for corporate, institutional and private landowners and developers. He has worked at CBRE and Drivers Jonas Deloitte. His professional experience is in three main sectors – Strategic Land / Projects, Retail / Mixed-Use and Central London. Strategic Projects / Land involves the promotion of land for commercial and residential development for landowners and developers. Retail / Mixed-Use schemes are a blend of edge of centre and town centre mixed-use schemes with food stores and other uses, often residential. This sector includes regeneration and waterside schemes. Central London focuses on projects from Canary Wharf to Hammersmith and Camden down to Wandsworth, Southwark and Lambeth.
When he isn’t working, Nick can be found playing golf (increasingly badly) and spending time re-stocking and emptying his wine cellar to indulge his passion for wine.
Carter Jonas was instructed to provide planning strategy advice and prepare a detailed planning application for a major regeneration scheme in central Croydon.
The site forms part of Fairfield masterplan, which requires the delivery of 5,000 residential units and 300,000 sqm of commercial, retail, community, and retail floorspace. It is adjacent to the London to Brighton mainline railway and close to East Croydon railway station.
The proposals were for 421 market and affordable homes with 1,400 sqm of ground floor flexible commercial space. Three mansion blocks are arranged around an amenity courtyard, with a 29-storey tower proposed in the far northeast corner to provide legibility to a new pedestrian route to East Croydon station. The NHS will have first refusal over a large area of the commercial space for use as a central Croydon healthcare centre.
A planning performance agreement was entered into with Croydon Council and Carter Jonas managed the process. We led the pre-application engagement with Croydon Council and the Greater London Authority who were supportive of the high-density scheme. We then advised on the public consultation strategy with a focus on engaging with adjacent institutional occupiers.
Carter Jonas submitted a planning application in September 2019 and led the negotiation of the application through to determination. The scheme was presented to Croydon Council’s first virtual planning committee meeting in April 2020, where it received a resolution to grant. A start on site is expected in the coming months.