1) introducing appropriate measures to ensure that access to and from the store does not impede traffic flow along an already VERY congested part of the Brighton Road. The new ALDI in Coulsdon caused significant detrimental impact on traffic flow.

2) monitoring the impact of parking demand on local streets, which are already congested and lack sufficient parking for local residents.

3) Providing clean, well lit and maintained access from the store to South Croydon Recreation Ground, as the store has the potential to increase flow to and through the park, for the benefit of the community.

4) undertaking regular street cleaning, both of the local area and the park to mitigate against the increase in rubbish that will inevitably arise from use of the store. Litter in the area is already an issue, the store MUST reduce the instance of litter, NOT increase it.

5) Provide toilet facilities for shoppers. It's important as shoppers will inevitably get caught short and if there aren't toilet facilities in the store what will happen?

RE: South Croydon Lidl

We are the Friends of South Croydon Recreation Ground, we are a community interest group who work voluntarily in the best interest of the park and fields ground behind your proposed development.

We welcome the change in use to the derelict brownfield site and will be following the developments on this topic.

Our input to you would be as follows.

It would be great if the new development had a very sympathetic interface to the park that was very natural (ie using high quality timber), well landscaped with had great planting that enhanced the current boundary fenceline. There is fantastic opportunity to include a public footpath through the development to the park from the Brighton main road with a pedestrian entrance gate at the park threshold. This would have a benefit of encouraging customers to walk through the park to reach the shop and discourage driving from those living near by.

Even better if the Lidl was to have toilets for customers, as many park users would use these and no doubt buy their picnics and ice creams whilst popping in.

Having toilets and a gated footpath entry to the park would be seen as a real wider community benefit of the development and would be supported by those worried about the developments impact to the area and specifically the park.

Any commitment to the local park area in way of endorsing / sponsoring our community efforts would be appreciated to make the area more pleasant - we are pushing for park equipment funding and organising community events and litter picks for example, support towards this would always be welcome.

Finally a further huge win win situation for gaining support and encouraging custom would be to supply lighting on the parks bottom path leading to a gated entrance. This would provide a safe walking route from a large portion of local housing to the shop at times of darkness.

Kind Regards

Friends of South Croydon Recreation Ground