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TES News No 168 • Winter 2007 The newsletter of The Enfield Society Spurs’ planning What’s there now? applications Just after the publication of our last Newsletter in mid August, we were told that Spurs had submitted another planning application to the Council for the construction of a football training centre on Green Belt land at Bulls Cross. It was then a month later before we discovered Local football and bowls clubs, a venue ... such as this one, on 21st October that Spurs had withdrawn their for matches ... 2007, appeal against the Council’s refusal to grant permission for last year’s planning application; the public inquiry on this appeal had been due to start on 20th November. The new application, the third one to date, includes the land currently occupied by the Whitewebbs Sports Centre. The intention is to demolish the pavilion, other buildings and car park on that site, which is to be tennis courts, . a bowling green, a cricket ground . commended, and most of that land will become Academy football pitches. There are a number of other changes but the size of the company, and the present Council Academy/Training Facility building should not have offered them a 75 remains unaltered with a total year lease on this public land, no floorspace of 127,018 sq. ft matter how desperate the need for (11,800m2) on a footprint which is Spurs to improve their own training 425% greater than the sum of the and Academy facilities. footprints of all the buildings which A special Planning Panel meeting would be demolished. The plan is was held on 11th October to discuss still to construct this very large the new proposals and it was clear . .and an open field building, with its two car parks, 1.5 that by far the majority of the full size floodlit synthetic football members of the public attending was Situation vacant pitches and a substantial strongly opposed to them groundsman’s store on the 27 acre The date of the Planning Committee Secretary to the agricultural field which is within the Society historic Forty Hall Estate. meeting to decide the fate of this latest application is 12th November, We are still without a company As this Estate was bought by the just a few days before this secretary and we need to fill this Council in 1951 for the benefit of Newsletter reaches its very wide important post. Some organisational Enfield’s residents, we cannot agree audience. In the run-up to that date skills are required but experience in that Spurs should be allowed to the field is not essential and the time we will be continuing our campaign commitment is very modest. For build their facility on this sensitive of total opposition. site. Tottenham Hotspur Football further information please contact Colin Pointer (020 8366 2406). Club is a private commercial Colin Pointer 1 Conservation and planning Street lighting No firm decision appears to have been reached yet on the exact design of the tall, retro style posts along the “principal roads”, nor on the choice of columns and lanterns for use in conservation areas such as Winchmore Hill Green. There has been another tranche of illuminated lamp post advert applications and we learn that these were agreed in principle as part of the PFI (public finance initiative) scheme. I do not recall this ever being mentioned at the public consultation meetings held at the outset of the scheme. Highlands Conservation Area There is a proposal to introduce another block of flats in the centre of the Highlands Village on what we understood to be an open amenity area as part of the approved layout. The land had been left derelict despite requests on our part for it to be landscaped as agreed. The 14 Bush Hill Park Estate. The house is surrounded existence of a rectangular outline of a by fine trees including a magnificent building on earlier maps of the hospital This is yet another example of a large oak just to the rear in Amwell has been used as grounds for suggesting building threatened with demolition Close and borders the small green in there was another pavilion on the site, but that is attractive and in a nice setting, front of Riverdell Court. There is an to us it looks much more like some sort but not in a conservation area or on outline application, which appears to of infill hut. The Society has objected the statutory list and so not protected show several units along the small strenuously. in any way. The stylish small red garden, but no detail at all. We have Chris Jephcott brick house at the bottom of Bush objected on the grounds of likely Green belts - some quotations Hill was built in 1874 as the lodge of excessive and inappropriate density from guidance documents the long demolished house Riverside, and suggested the house be added to “... the quality of the landscape is not relevant to which was actually on the banks of the local list, though unfortunately the inclusion of land within a Green Belt or to the New River. The architect was this would still not prevent its its continued protection.” “...detailed Green Belt Thomas Tayler Smith, who was also demolition. boundaries defined in adopted local plans or involved with the original Bush Hill earlier approved development plans should be Chris Jephcott altered only exceptionally.” “Essential facilities ... should be genuinely required for uses of land which preserve the openness of the Green Belt and do not conflict with the purposes of including land in it. Possible examples of such New book facilities include small changing rooms or Graham Dalling, Enfield's Local unobtrusive spectator accommodation for outdoor sport...” History Officer has just published his Planning Policy Guidance 2: Green belts third book and copies will be on sale <http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/pla at Jubilee Hall. The cost is £14.50 but nningandbuilding/pdf/155499> if you would like a copy sent by post “No development to be permitted on please add £2 towards p. & p. The agricultural land or in areas of landscape value book is in A-Z format and relates the or special character other than development strictly required for agriculture, forestry or history of Enfield, both ancient and recreation”. “No development to be permitted modern, from a sleepy small town to on land used or still capable of being used for a busy London suburb. Graham has private or public recreational purposes other generously offered the royalties from than small scale buildings essential for the management or enjoyment of those facilities.” sales of this publication to The “The recreational opportunity or facility should Enfield Society. not: ... require the erection of obtrusive protective fencing, lighting and recreational The Enfield book / Graham Dalling. – furniture out of keeping with the visual London : Historical Publications, 2007. – appearance of an agricultural landscape”. 120p. ; 25cm. – ISBN 978-1-905286-20-1 Enfield’s Unitary Development Plan , appendix A1. : £14.50. 2 Diary dates Town show Until 21st December The Spirit of Hornsey 1882 to 2007. The warm sunny weather for the annual Autumn Show in the Town Park, An exhibition tracing the history of Enfield, ensured a good attendance and the Enfield Society stall was busy Hornsey College of Art from a small throughout the two days. Our display had been updated to include the change private art school for enthusiastic of name, and it attracted many viewers. 27 new members were recruited and amateurs to a leading art college, now many of the new membership application forms given out. More than a third part of Middlesex University. The exhibition is open Monday to of the sales revenue of £308 was for Christmas cards. There was varied Thursday from 9 am to 7 pm and entertainment in the arena, a variety of food stalls and live music in the Fridays 9 am to 5 pm. Closed performance area. weekends. It is located in the library Monica Smith (Peter Green Building) of the Middlesex University campus at Cat Hill. Until 24th February 2008 The suburban landscape – 200 years of gardens and gardening. An exhibition at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Cat Hill. Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 2 to 5pm. Admission free. Sunday 25th November 9 mile circular walk via some of Enfield’s finest parks and open spaces. Start at 10 am from Pymmes Park Visitor Centre* Sunday 16th December Walk from Town Park to Forty Hall. 10am to 2.30 pm from Town Park Cecil Road entrance.* Sunday 20 January Walk the Pymmes Brook Trail to Trent Park (10 miles). 10 am to 3 pm from Edmonton Lee Valley Cinema* Lancaster Art Centre Edmonton Wednesday 20th February We were very sorry to learn that the 7.30 for 8 p.m. Joint meeting with Lancaster Art Centre will be closing Edmonton Hundred Historical Society, at Christmas, as the Society has had Edmonton Group at Charity School Hall, 24 Church a long association with it. It has Details of the joint meeting with Street, Edmonton. Gary Boudier, provided an outlet for the sale of members of EHHS on the History author of the recent book on the North our Christmas cards and postcards of the North Middlesex Hospital on Middlesex Hospital, will talk about in North Enfield and has also sold 20th February are given in Diary and answer questions on the history of many books, maps and other Dates. All members are welcome. the hospital. publications. When Derrick Stone It was a very Sunday 24th February offered a painting in our Diamond wet day for the Walk from Albany Park to Chingford Jubilee Year, it was to the Lancaster working party on the LOOP (4 miles).