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Making Enfield Enfield Heritage Strategy 2019 - 2024 All maps are reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. London Borough of Enfield DENF003. I DRAFT 1 2 Contents 3 A INTRODUCTION 1 Vision 3 Executive summary 5 The heritage of Enfield 7 Document structure 9 1 SHAPING ENFIELD 13 1.1 Background 15 1.2 Memory, vulnerability and loss 16 1.3 Landscape, architecture and design 18 1.4 Archives, museum collections and archaeology 22 1.5 Promotion and inward investment 24 1.6 Objectives and aims 27 2 ENFIELD MADE 37 2.1 Existing borough context 39 2.2 Approach to heritage 46 2.3 Existing heritage context 50 3 POLICY BACKGROUND 65 3.1 National context 66 3.2 Enfield context 67 4 APPENDICES 73 Enfield Heritage Strategy November 2018 3 1 ChapterINTRODUCTION title DRAFT 2 I DRAFT 1 2 1 Executive summary 3 A Vision Our vision for Enfield is:Heritage for change - engaged, cherished, conserved and enjoyed. This statement recognises that heritage is important to Enfield’s future. It can drive change in a positive way and be instrumental in securing change at differing scales, from large-scale regeneration through to personal engagement with museum collections, archives or place. It is a precious and finite resource and one which we will work to conserve and enhance for the benefit of all. Enfield Heritage Strategy November 2018 3 DRAFT 4 I DRAFT 1 2 Executive summary 3 A Enfield’s heritage has been formed Key features include: by our interventions in the natural and built landscape over the centuries; it • A positive approach to managing is constantly evolving. As we expect heritage as part of growth in the built the Borough to grow and transform, and natural environment heritage can anchor new development • A commitment to design quality and contribute to our sense of place. It underpinning placemaking through can define and connect communities the conservation and enhancement and support wellbeing. Through of the historic environment engagement with collections and • A commitment to deciding on a archives it can contribute to our sense of course of action for the future of wonder. Broomfield House Enfield is proud of its heritage and • A commitment to making museum ambitious to create the heritage of collections and archives more tomorrow. Heritage can positively drive accessible through continuing regeneration and economic growth. It digitisation can attract investment and draw visitors • A commitment to increasing into the Borough. museum audience development to reflect Enfield’s communities at the Making Enfield is the new Heritage Strategy for Enfield for 2019-2024. present day It replaces the previous Heritage • Focus upon the heritage of cultural Strategy: A Living Landscape and practices and different groups builds on its success. It draws other across the Borough and the Council strategies together to define and importance of memory-making to focus on Enfield’s priorities. Developed our sense of identity and place from stakeholder workshops, the new • Opportunities for inward investment Strategy is a shorter, more collaborative and partnership working document that recognises heritage in its Targets by which success will be diverse forms. • measured Enfield Heritage Strategy November 2018 5 DRAFT Figure 1: Enfield Town Centre 6 I DRAFT 1 2 The heritage of Enfield 3 A Enfield’s heritage is more than bricks and mortar. It is about people as well as places. How we approach heritage affects how we choose to grow. An important part of this lies 1800 in understanding Enfield’s heritage and its significance. In turn, better understanding will help to create high quality placemaking. We can be confident that we are conserving 1860 what we should and using cherished heritage to create inspiring new environments. Our approach to what is heritage is evolving. We already understand 1890 much of what defines Enfield from characterisation studies by the Paul Drury Partnership (2008) and by Urban Practitioners (2011). 1915 1940 2000 Figure 2: Layers of growth from 1800 Enfield Heritage Strategy November 2018 7 DRAFT Figure 3: Rooftop view across Edmonton 8 I DRAFT 1 2 Document structure 3 A Who this document is for We have called this new Heritage Strategy Making Enfield. This title recognises what has shaped The Heritage Strategy is intended for all engaged Enfield’s character to date, notably the long history with Enfield’s rich and diverse heritage. This of industry and manufacture including armaments, means residents, workers, leisure users, and garment production, timber and furniture visitors to the Borough as well as their professional manufacturing. Intensive industry characterised the advisors, decision makers and investors. It sets Lee valley, extending out to Ponders End and its out how the Council will approach heritage, cluster of electrical manufacture. Market gardening particularly through development management was concentrated around Crews Hill and the Lee and regeneration, museum and local studies and Valley. Creative ventures are reconfiguring this archives, parks, property services and highways manufacturing heritage, providing a hub for new and traffic and transportation. makers in Edmonton. Through this new Strategy we recognise the enormous creative potential of What the new Heritage Strategy does this heritage for dynamic place-making. Making Enfield, the new Enfield Heritage Strategy, is a high level statement of intent pointing Enfield is ambitious for change. The Meridian to how heritage will be managed and resources Water development will be one of the most directed. It is expected to underpin bids to significant new housing projects in Greater London attract inward investment and support increasing and housing figures from the Mayor indicate that engagement across the Borough. It replaces the there will be transformative growth across the previous Heritage Strategy to sit alongside other Borough over the next 20-30 years. Crossrail 2 Council strategy documents. As a Supplementary could bring major new infrastructure. This will Planning Document (SPD) the Heritage Strategy all mean a change to the familiar urban and rural amplifies the adopted policies in the Core Strategy landscape and challenges to, and opportunities for and Development Management Document and heritage in its myriad forms. We need to ensure the emergent Local Plan. Further guidance, that what is most significant is protected. But with such as town centre studies, design guidance change also comes the opportunity to direct what or management plans may sit below it. The we make of Enfield in the future. Through the new Strategy will be a material consideration in planning Strategy we have set out how we will cherish and applications. celebrate Enfield’s unique character and heritage, the diverse communities that have made, and The Heritage Strategy Making Enfield sets out continue to make it, and, importantly, how we will the Council’s priorities and objectives for heritage use heritage to drive change and shape Enfield’s services across Council functions for the next five future. years. We have not set out to define heritage here but accept that it includes archives, buildings, The document is divided into two sections: museum collections, landscape, festivals, ethnicity, Shaping Enfield is forward looking. It sets out the faith practices, architecture and archaeology, Council’s aspirations for its heritage, its objectives cultural practices, design and more. and longer term aims. Enfield Made is concerned with the background to Enfield’s heritage, the Our aim for this document is that it shapes Council new Strategy, heritage policy and designations. policy for all services affecting heritage. Like the Different chapters are summarised below. previous Heritage Strategy, it will form part of the evidence base for the Local Plan. Making Enfield is intended as a Supplementary Planning Document but its scope extends beyond planning functions to all aspects of the Borough’s heritage. Enfield Heritage Strategy November 2018 9 DRAFT Figure 4: Fingerpost in Southgate 10 I DRAFT 1 2 3 A Shaping Enfield Enfield Made Shaping Enfield sets out our aspirations. It Enfield Made looks at the background to the new explores how opportunities and pressures facing Strategy, including its development and policy Enfield’s heritage can be managed to support context. In this section Approach to Heritage change over the next five years. This section responds to the Council’s previous Heritage highlights both general and more particular Strategy: A Living Landscape and illustrates heritage issues and indicates where we intend to how the new Strategy has developed, working in direct resources to meet them. Heritage will be collaboration with Enfield’s communities. central to how transformative growth is brought about and will set the marker for new, high quality Policy Background demonstrates how Making placemaking across the borough. Enfield relates to the national policy and guidance and mainstream Council thinking. Locating the At the same time, Shaping Enfield proposes new Strategy in the broader strategic context measures for the management of a finite means that the commitments made in the resource of historic buildings, landscape, document are both resilient and consistent with museum collections and archives to ensure both national and Council