Enfield Towards a New Local Plan 2036 Issues and Options Enfield I2I STATION Public Consultation (Regulation 18) December 2018 www.enfield.gov.uk/newlocalplan Contents 1 This consultation 7 3 Enhancing heritage 57 1.1 Background 9 3.1 Introduction 59 1.2 This consultation 10 3.2 Design quality and local character 63 1.3 How to find out more 11 3.3 Designated heritage assets 67 1.4 What happens next? 11 3.4 Locally listed and undesignated heritage 1.5 The Local Plan’s relationship with other assets and cultural practices 69 policies and strategies 13 3.5 Views 70 1.6 Enfield’s new Local Plan 2036 13 1.7 Why a new Local Plan? 14 1.8 Community involvement in the new 4 Design excellence 73 Local Plan 16 1.9 Enfield in London and the wider context 19 4.1 Introduction 75 1.10 The Enfield Context 21 4.2 Achieving design excellence 75 1.11 Challenges facing Enfield 23 4.3 Character and density 78 1.12 What are the key stages in producing the 4.4 Design for co-location and mixed use new Local Plan 24 development 80 4.5 Designing a sustainable, safe and inclusive borough 82 2 Promoting good growth options in Enfield 27 2.1 Introduction 29 5 Meeting Enfield’s housing needs 85 2.2 What you said 30 2.3 Realising opportunities and Call-for-Sites 31 5.1 Introduction 87 2.4 How must we plan differently? 33 5.2 Housing growth and quality 87 2.5 Enfield’s draft vision and growth objectives 35 5.3 Affordable housing 90 2.6 Growth objectives 35 5.4 Small sites 94 2.7 A growth strategy for people and places 38 5.5 Housing mix 95 2.8 Town centres and areas around stations 39 5.6 Private-rented sector and build-to-rent 97 2.9 Transport corridors 42 5.7 Custom and self-build housing 99 2.10 Estate renewal and regeneration areas 44 5.8 Supported and specialist housing 100 2.11 The Eastern Corridor and industrial areas 47 5.9 Gypsy and traveller accommodation 103 2.12 Strategic plan-led approach to Green Belt 50 2.13 Future Crossrail 2 growth corridors 52 2.14 Opportuntiy Areas 54 6 Promoting a competitive economy 105 2.15 Do nothing is not an option 55 6.1 Business and job growth 107 6.2 Approach to employment land 109 6.3 Office 117 6.4 Supporting small business 118 6.5 Skills and access to employment 120 6.6 Digital infrastructure 122 6.7 Creative Enterprise Zone 123 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 7 Planning for vibrant town centres 125 11 Sustainable infrastructure and environmental impact 191 7.1 Enfield’s town centres 127 7.2 Successful town centres 132 11.1 Introduction 193 7.3 Meanwhile uses 137 11.2 Sustainable building 194 7.4 Evening and night time economy 139 11.3 Sustainable living and working 197 11.4 Sustainable infrastructure 201 11.5 Water and flooding 207 8 Community and social infrastructure 143 11.6 Managing surface water 211 8.1 Community facilities 145 8.2 Health and wellbeing 153 8.3 Arts, cultural, entertainment, recreation, sport and leisure facilities 156 9 Enfield’s green and blue spaces 159 9.1 Introduction 161 9.2 Protecting and enhancing local open space 161 9.3 Green Belt and Metropolitan Open Land 165 9.4 Greening the borough 168 9.5 Biodiversity and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation 169 9.6 Blue Ribbon Network 171 9.7 Burial space and crematoriums 173 10 Sustainable movement and transport 175 10.1 Introduction 177 10.2 Making public transport more accessible 179 10.3 Reducing the impact of private vehicles on our streets 184 10.4 Making active travel the natural choice 187 10.5 Making more school trips safe, sustainable and healthy 189 Enfield’s draft New Local Plan 2036 3 Consultation Draft (Regulation 18) December 2018 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Foreword Over the last two decades, the London borough Combinations of some or potentially all of these of Enfield has changed tremendously. Significant options will need to be explored to deliver areas have been regenerated and Enfield is successful thriving places with a range of a place that is successful in attracting new housing, schools and health facilities, open residents, jobs, investment and visitors. spaces and a dynamic economy, and to ensure the positive benefits of regeneration and Enfield is now set to go through a period of even investment reach all residents of the borough. more rapid growth, change and development. We need to proactively manage the investment being We are working hard to improve living standards, made in the borough ensure that it results in the make Enfield safer, cleaner and greener, support delivery of the significant amount of housing, residents to be healthier and happier, and provide supporting community infrastructure, and jobs more opportunities to learn and work, and stay in that local people need and in economic growth, the borough. The new Local Plan aims to make which allows local businesses to thrive. We want this happen, by giving clear guidance; such as sustainable growth to 2036 to deliver a place in what can be built, where, how, for what use, which people are proud to stay, live, work and where restrictions apply and why. visit. Enfield’s new Local Plan will provide the planning framework against which aspirations of The Council is committed to providing a high the Council, local people and other partners can quality, responsive Local Plan and knows how be delivered. important it is to involve the community in helping us create a better Enfield. We also need to look ahead at the potential of securing a Crossrail 2 route in Enfield. Crossrail Following previous public consultation in 2 would run through our eastern corridor 2015, this Issues and Options consultation and include early Four Tracking of the West is the first of two formal stages to be Anglia Mainline and branch to New Southgate. consulted on as part of the new Local Crossrail 2 has the potential to unlock additional Plan. We encourage you to take this new opportunities to deliver much-needed opportunity to participate in the process of new homes, jobs and economic growth in the shaping the future growth of the borough borough. and the policies within the Plan. Further opportunities for public consultation will The Council’s emerging growth vision is to deliver follow before we aim for the Local Plan to be transformational change, unlocked through adopted in 2021. strategic infrastructure investments. The key aim is to reduce inequality to regenerate deprived neighbourhoods for the benefit of local residents, to promote development along key growth corridors and to enhance the borough’s rich resource of green and blue infrastructure - which includes our parks, river valleys, gardens, street trees, canals and more. Growth options towards delivering this vision include: directing investment and growth to our town centres and areas around stations; exploiting opportunities around transport corridors; optimising the Council’s land portfolio for new development including our estate renewal and regeneration programmes; proactively managing and optimising low density industrial and other land in the eastern corridor, and a Councillor Ahmet Oykener strategic approach to the borough’s Green Belt. Cabinet Member of Property and Assets Enfield’s draft New Local Plan 2036 5 Consultation Draft (Regulation 18) December 2018 1 This consultation 1.1 Background 9 1.2 This consultation 10 1.3 How to find out more 11 1.4 What happens next? 11 1.5 The Local Plan’s relationship with other policies and strategies 13 1.6 Enfield’s new Local Plan 2036 13 1.7 Why a new Local Plan? 14 1.8 Community involvement in the new Local Plan 16 1.9 Enfield in London and the wider context 19 1.10 The Enfield Context 21 1.11 Challenges facing Enfield 23 1.12 What are the key stages in producing the new Local Plan 24 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 Introduction 1.1 Background 1.1.1 The Council’s Core Strategy was adopted in 1.1.5 Without a realistic plan for accommodating 2010. It has successfully managed the significant projected growth, more and more households will change the borough has experienced since then be left homeless or in overcrowded, overpriced by guiding the location, type, scale and design and low-quality homes without proper access to of new development. We now need a new a healthy environment and necessary services. Local Plan to respond to new opportunities and Inequalities in the borough will continue and pressures. Our key challenges include a rapidly worsen. The nature, scale and location of the rising population, housing growth, which has growth that would take place would be largely not kept up with demand, the changing nature decided in line with developers’ priorities, rather of retail and our town centres. The Plan has than by those of residents. The Council wants the opportunity to boost economic growth and growth in the borough to be an opportunity for maximise the benefits of strategic infrastructure benefits to all existing and future residents. projects and other social and community infrastructure for residents and businesses in the 1.1.6 Our statutory obligation is to look at a 15-year borough. time horizon and take account of longer term requirements.