This area of the website is intended to provide you with a background to why the LDA is involved in regenerating Crystal Palace Park and the process that led to the masterplan being developed.  Quick links can be found on the right hand side of this page.

In 2003, Sport England decided to close the NSC because it could no longer maintain the increasing subsidy necessary to keep the facility open. The London Development Agency (LDA), the Mayor’s agency for economic development, recognised the value of the NSC as an asset for London and for sport. It also recognised the importance and vulnerability of the Park as a whole. The NSC and Park we given even more importance after London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics.

Following negotiations between the LDA, the London Borough of Bromley (LBB) and Sport England, the LDA took over the lease of the NSC in March 2006 and has an option to take over the rest of Crystal Palace Park by 2009.

The publication of the Draft Crystal Palace Park Planning Framework in October 2005, defined a vision and strategy for the rejuvenation of the Park. Following an extensive consultation exercise, the LDA further developed the ideas for the Park in the context of the feedback received from the public and stakeholders, and by continuing to work with the dialogue groups.

An Addendum to the Planning Framework was published in February 2007. The Addendum provides an overview of the proposed changes to the framework proposals largely arising out of the consultation process. It effectively drew to a close this preliminary stage of the process, allowing the landscape-led masterplanners Latz und Partner to produce a more detailed masterplan for the Park.

The Masterplan represents the next stage in this process, articulating and developing the concepts and outline proposals set out in the Draft Planning Framework and Planning Framework Addendum.  The masterplan is formed of three planning applications which were submitted to the London Borough of Bromley on 1 November 2007.

The documentation for the three masterplan planning applications can be found here.