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• David Eyre,
  Regeneration Officer,
  Bexley Council,
  Environmental and Regeneration Services,
  Regeneration Unit,
  Erith Boat House,
  20 Erith High Street,
  Erith,
  Kent DA8 1QY
• 020 8294 6749
• david.eyre @bexley.gov.uk

Crayford Strategy and Action Plan

Crayford is a town with a strong civic pride and local history where people care deeply about the future, about its changing character, the mix of town centre uses, and traffic problems. The community care about their town and want to ensure that they have a good range of shops, services, community facilities and a high quality environment as the town in developed in the coming years.

Crayford has a strong economic base, good accessibility by road and rail and experiences a strong demand for development of commercial and residential uses. The future lies in the ability of the local people, businesses, developers and the Council to work together in a partnership towards a Vision, which realises the economic and environmental potential of the town in a way that secures beneficial improvements.

To achieve this we will draw on the combined resources of the private, public and community sectors to create a Crayford that is prosperous, pleasing to be in and to move around, a pleasant place to work and to shop, to enjoy leisure time and where the needs of its users are best met.

The Crayford Strategy and Action Plan has been produced following extensive consultation, to provide the development proposals and projects that will promote the environmental, cultural and economic improvements to regenerate Crayford to become the sustainable town centre that its history deserves.

Copies of the Crayford Strategy and Action Plan are available for reference at libraries across the Borough and at the Contact Centre at Civic Offices, Broadway, Bexleyheath.

Copies of the Crayford Strategy and Action Plan are available for purchase from Reception at Wyncham House at a price of £8 per copy, or may be ordered from Mrs Daphne Lowe, Environment and Regeneration Services, Wyncham House, 207 Longlands Road, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 7JH, tel: 020 8308 7776 at a price of £10 a copy, including postage and packing. Cheques, payable to Bexley Council, should be sent with orders.

For ease of reading the Crayford Strategy and Action Plan has been split into sections below, these are available to download as PDF's

0. Introduction and Forward (292KB, PDF file)
   1. Contents
   2. Executive Summary
1. Background (217KB, PDF file,)
   1. The Need for a Strategy and Action Plan for Crayford
   2. The Process of Preparing the Strategy and Action Plan
   3. The Status of the Strategy and Action Plan
   4. Public Consultation
2. Policy Context (126KB, PDF file)
   1. Strategic Policy Context
   2. Local Policy Context
3. Crayford Past and Present (186KB, PDF file)
   1. A Brief History
   2. The Use of Land and Buildings
   3. Townscape and the Public Realm
   4. Physical Constraints
   5. Traffic Movement
   6. Public Buildings and Community Facilities
   7. Commercial Considerations
4. Working in Partnership (218KB, PDF file)
   1. The Key Issues
   2. 'Planning for Real'
   3. Crayford Community and Business Forum
   4. Business Capacity Building
   5. Consultation on the Draft Strategy
5. A Vision for Crayford (102KB, PDF file)
6. Key Objectives of the Strategy (78KB, PDF file)
7. The Strategic Development Framework (351KB, PDF file)
   1. The Guiding Principles
   2. The Development Framework
   3. Guidance for New Development
8. Action Plan (716KB, PDF file)
   1. Site Development Proposals
   2. Projects
   3. Key Initiatives
9. Next Steps (56KB, PDF file)
10. Figures (1.60MB, PDF file, 1.60MB)
11. Appendices (663KB, PDF file)