A 140-home Ackroyd Lowrie development earmarked for a vacant site in Croydon has been granted planning consent at appeal.

The east London practice created its Heath Park North proposals for publisher David Sullivan’s Conegate development firm. Conegate took the project to appeal after Croydon Council failed to determine the plans within the timeframe stipulated by government guidance.

Ackroyd Lowrie managing director Jon Ackroyd said the practice’s proposals would improve the range of community facilities in the Waddon area by introducing a new café, meeting space and a park pavilion.

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