3 Enhancing heritage 3.1 Introduction 59 3.2 Design quality and local character 63 3.3 Designated heritage assets 67 3.4 Locally listed and undesignated heritage assets and cultural practices 69 3.5 Views 70 Support high rise development, and recognises that higher density development can contribute to Archaeological Priority minimising the need for new Areas need to be fully development land considered as part of major development Support growth growth options in principle but needs to carefully consider its potential impacts on the management of the historic environment Development is supported and needs What respondents to be delivered without said about heritage compromising assets as part of the 2015 Consultation and Enfield Conversation The quality and character of the borough and individual A robust evidence areas within it is greatly base needs to be appreciated and should developed on the historic be sustained and environment of Enfield to enhanced support the Local Plan as well as a positive strategy for the conservation and enjoyment of the historic environment, demonstrating how, when and Quality of life, as well as by whom Enfield’s heritage will enjoyment of and access to local be utilised, protected and green space and conservation areas enhanced is of great importance to residents and this should be preserved and enhanced 58 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3 Enhancing heritage 3.1 Introduction Enfield’s Heritage 3.1.3 Distinctive topography has shaped the borough, leading to industrialisation around the Lee Valley 3.1.1 This section sets out why heritage is important, in the east and extensive green space and how Enfield’s built, and designed landscape residential development taking up much of the heritage came about, heritage’s role in growth, hillier west. heritage’s contribution to quality placemaking, understanding significance, the role of 3.1.4 Connectivity is important and the connections managed change, community involvement and between urban London and rural Middlesex have engagement. Enfield’s heritage is a defining shaped much of the borough’s form, with strong feature of the borough. It is at the heart of axial links to and from the capital crossed by the Enfield’s success as a popular place to live, work North Circular (A406) and M25. Rail, tube and and spend leisure time. Heritage can support waterways have all contributed to a distinctive growth and act as a catalyst for regeneration. urban and rural form that unites very different It is central to high quality place making and development typologies in one single borough. helps to create a sense of place, anchoring new development and communities. 3.1.5 Through this all Enfield has developed around a number of town centres, with grand estates, 3.1.2 Heritage can include buildings, design, smaller planned and incremental settlements, landscapes, archaeology, cultural practices extensive areas of housing and built and natural and more. Heritage and Society 2018 (Historic landscapes all contributing to its historic built England) identifies that the historic environment is character and urban and landscape form. enjoyed by millions. Members of the public deeply value the historic environment. It is important 3.1.6 Heritage is recognised as dynamic and evolving. for our health and wellbeing. It creates a strong Values change, and hidden significance may sense of place, influences how we perceive emerge. Heritage in Enfield is about more than places and brings people together. The historic standing structures and designed landscapes. environment inspires learning and understanding. It may be reflected in patterns of land use or The Council’s priorities are to manage heritage community and cultural practices as much as key to support the growth agenda, engage local historic structures. Creative approaches will be communities and attract inward investment. required to ensure that those are recognised and integrated into high quality place making. Figure 3.1: Arnos Grove station Enfield’s draft New Local Plan 2036 59 Consultation Draft (Regulation 18) December 2018 to Hertford to Hertford and Stevenage to Cheshunt and Harlow Towards Towards Hertford Broxbourne and Stevenage Theobalds Grove M25 M25 Junction 24 To M1 and M25 Waltham Junction 25 M25 To M11 and Heathrow Crews Hill Cross M25 Gatwick 8 20 Turkey Street 4 A10 10 5 Hadley Wood A1010 Gordon Hill 19 Brimsdown A110 6 Chase Town Southbury Cockfosters New Barnet Oakwood 9 11 2 15 Grange Park Ponders End Bush Hill A110 Park Oakleigh Park 21 A1010 Winchmore Hill A10 16 Southgate 22 13 18 17 3 Edmonton 14 1 12 Green Palmers Green Arnos Grove A406 Silver Street Angel A406 Road New Southgate 7 Bowes Park A406 Bounds Green White Hart Lane Northumberland Park A406 Figure 3.2: Conservation Areas Wood Green 1• Abbotshall Avenue 12• Lakes Estate Key 2• Bush Hill Park 13• Meadway Hadley Wood Neighbourhood Planning Area to Central to Central London London Tottenham Hale 3• Church St, Edmonton 14• Montagu Road Cemeteries Conservation Area 4• Clay Hill 15• Ponders End Flour Mills 5• Enfield Lock 16• Southgate Circus 6• Enfield Town 17• Southgate Green 7• Fore St, Edmonton 18• The Crescent to Moorga8•te Forty Hill to Liverpool Street 19• Trent Park 9• Grange Park 20• Turkey St 10• Hadley Wood 21• Vicars Moor Lane 11• Highlands 22• Winchmore Hill 60 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3.1.7 In the forthcoming plan period, Enfield faces 3.1.11 It is recognised that design quality can contribute intensive and extensive demand for growth in much to conserving and enhancing heritage terms of housing, jobs and infrastructure to serve as part of good growth. There may, however, them. To address this, the Council will ensure be places in the borough where certain forms that heritage is integrated into all Plan proposals of development such as tall buildings will be and is committed to combat inequalities, drive inappropriate or instances when proposed forward regeneration, increase the supply of alterations to a historic structure or landscape housing; drive investment in rail, roads and will cause harm. To continue to conserve and cycling infrastructure and create an enterprising enhance the borough the Council will determine environment for businesses. proposals for growth or alteration consistent with the asset’s significance. Communities across the 3.1.8 To encourage high quality place making, heritage borough are engaged with its heritage in different needs to be properly understood, conserved ways. Local conservation study groups and The and enhanced. The Council wants heritage to Enfield Society worked with the Council on the be used as the catalyst and driver for successful Local Heritage Review, but many other groups regeneration and new growth, for building thriving and organisations are engaged with different new communities, for encouraging inward expressions of heritage in less formal ways. The investment, and for associated increases in jobs role of memory and storytelling in place making and standards of living for all residents in all parts and heritage is expressed through oral history of the borough. and reminiscence projects, faith practices, trails, festivals and events. This work is supported by 3.1.9 The Council wants new development to be of the Council’s Museum and Local Studies Library a quality that creates the valued heritage of and Archives services. The Council will continue tomorrow. It is vitally important that Enfield uses to explore how diverse communities engage with future development to improve and add to its local heritage and create a sense of place as the heritage, better to reveal its significance and to borough grows. make it more accessible for current and future generations. Exceptional design can enhance an 3.1.12 Heritage, design and place making therefore existing heritage asset or make a new building, have an important role to play in maintaining object or place that becomes a valued heritage and building Enfield as a home of distinctive, asset of the future. Design quality also enables inclusive communities. Making local places into new development to enhance the setting of a vibrant, shared venture, engaging Enfield’s historic structures or landscapes. The informed existing population as well as newcomers and design of new additions or alterations to heritage in redressing past inequalities. Enfield’s heritage assets can ensure that what is significant is better is dynamic and constantly added to as the revealed and understood and not lost in the borough evolves and interactions between local process. people and assets change. Heritage is therefore about positive management of change making 3.1.10 Positive management of the borough’s heritage positive use of heritage assets and their settings relies upon an understanding of its significance for regeneration and placemaking engaging as well as high quality new design. Existing communities and promoting design quality. Characterisation Studies, Conservation Area Appraisals and Management Proposals, Tall Buildings Policy and Town Centre studies or masterplans as well as the Local Studies Library and Archive and Greater London Historic Environment Record can be used to further understanding of historic development patterns and heritage significance, including above and below ground archaeology. Enfield’s draft New Local Plan 2036 61 Consultation Draft (Regulation 18) December 2018 Figure 3.3: Listed buildings and registered parks and gardens Key Listed building or group Registered parks and gardens Listed building or group I II* II 62 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 3.2 Design quality and local character Historic built and natural environment assets 3.2.3 Good design, alongside informed heritage work together to create well-designed places and 3.2.1 This section sets out key facts relating to positively add to existing character and contexts.