Meridian Water | July 2011 Consultation Document Meridian Water Transforming North London Meridian Water is one of the key regeneration and investment opportunities in North London. The £1.3 billion redevelopment of this area of underutilised land in Enfield will create a new neighbourhood of up to 5,000 homes and businesses and deliver up to 3,000 new jobs by 2045. Meridian Water offers large areas of high quality development land nestled between the busy town centre location of Edmonton Green and the peaceful waterways and parklands of the Lee Valley. This is an opportunity for development, investment and regeneration no other location in London can offer. An Unrivalled Development Opportunity Meridian Water will be a place that people are proud to call home, with everything that families and businesses need to flourish. Residents will enjoy high quality, energy efficient housing, revitalised employment areas, waterside living, excellent leisure opportunities, new schools, community spaces and local shops in a high quality public realm. Businesses will benefit from an environment which has been designed to meet their needs, with the Council working closely with partners to ensure a supportive atmosphere for business growth and investment. In order to realise this level of growth, the Council have drawn together the Meridian Water Delivery Board, a strong partnership of some of the key decision makers in London, ranging from the Greater London Authority to Transport for London, from the Environment Agency to the Homes and Communities Agency and beyond, working in partnership to realise the vision. These groups have come together in one forum to coordinate their approaches to the regeneration and realisation of Meridian Water, enabling joint working across the organisations, and a single point of contact for those wanting to take forward proposals for delivery. This unique partnership arrangement allows the organisations to coordinate their funding streams and resources, speed up decision making and pioneer joint delivery within Meridian Water in order to facilitate and enable investment and development. Creating a New Community The Meridian Water Masterplan creates a vision for the coordinated regeneration of the disconnected pockets of underutilised and vacant land that characterise the area, giving a once in a lifetime opportunity to reshape this part of the Borough to create a new community that will redefine the landscape of North London. The Masterplan sets forward a proposal to link the east and west of the area with a new community spine, a pedestrian friendly route that joins Harbet Road to Glover Drive, opening up and connecting the area with Edmonton, Northumberland Park, Highams Hill and beyond. Taking forward this concept of a strong community spine, the Masterplan sets out plans for the development of a new neighbourhood shaped around this link, putting forward proposals for development designed to become an extension and expansion of Edmonton, rather than stand alone islands and pockets of development without any sense of place or purpose. Through this shared vision and framework for the future of the area, Meridian Water will create a neighbourhood that people can call home, a place where residents have a sense of permanence and belonging, not only to Meridian Water but to Edmonton and North London, creating a community where people can set down roots and take pride in the place they can call home. A Prime Location For Growth Building on Meridian Waters key location in the heart of the Lee Valley, the area has the potential for significant levels of growth, providing large areas of developable land in North London, with excellent transport links in an easily recognised location. Meridian Water lies at the foot of the thriving industrial corridor of the Lee Valley, with all of the component elements of a world class Decentralised Energy Network ready to be integrated with the regeneration of this part of Enfield. The site takes full advantage of the North Circular, giving excellent road linkages to London, along with Angel Road Station located at the heart of the site, giving easy access to Liverpool Street Station, Stanstead, Cambridge and beyond. Meridian Water is only 4 minutes from Tottenham Hale, 6 miles from Junction 25 of the M25, 25 minutes from City Airport, 45 minutes from Heathrow and 2 hours 50 minutes from Paris via Eurostar, creating a prime location for development and growth in London. Meridian Water Site & Vision The Vision The vision for Meridian Water supports the creation of a distinctive waterfront eco-neighbourhood, developed as an integrated extension of Edmonton. The aim is to develop a new sustainable community that is fully integrated with its surrounding area, where the positive benefits of the regeneration and investment reach beyond its boundaries. The masterplan will guide the regeneration of the area to support a vibrant new community that will create up to 5,000 new homes, and identify where the supporting social and community infrastructure can be created to develop a successful and desirable place to live. The masterplan will draw on Meridian Water’s distinctiveness, defining a sense of place that is strongly rooted in its character and context. Additionally, the masterplan will seek to deliver up to 3,000 jobs. It will look to create new jobs but also retain existing employment, building on the strong business base already in place and creating new and exciting opportunities for investment and development. This level of regeneration can be compared to the Olympic Village, Woodberry Down or Royal Arsenal in terms of its importance and contribution to London’s growth. Waltham Abbey M25 The Site Site location Car parking Meridian Water is the collective name given to the currently dominates underutilised employment land in the south east of Enfield, on the border with the north east of Haringey and the north west of Waltham Sewardstone Forest, and forms part of the Central Leeside Area Action Plan. Brimsdown The site itself includes part of, and is bounded to the east by, the Lee Eneld Valley Regional Park and to the west primarily by Kimberley Road and Conduit Lane. To the north, the site is bounded by Conduit Lane and the North Circular (A406) and to the south by Leeside Road. Ponder’s End Bush The area is tightly bounded by physical constraints, many of which are Hill Park identified in the accompanying images, such as the North Circular Big sheds fill the Winchmore and the Lee Valley waterways, which separate the area from nearby Hill communities. Chingford skyline Edmonton Upper Highams Edmonton Meridian Park Water Tottenham Wood Green Pylons cross the Walthamstow site Tottenham Hale Harringay The site itself is dissected by Meridian Way (A1055), the West Anglia Main Line, a number of channelised River Lee tributaries and larger power pylons and cables following the course of the River Lee Flooding is an issue Diversion. The development of Meridian Water offers a unique opportunity to regenerate the existing landscape to deliver a character driven regeneration, reconnecting the east and west of the area, and creating a unique component of the River Lee green network. Currently underused watercourses and decaying industrial chimneys will be transformed into key features of a dynamic, pedestrian friendly, green urban environment, transforming this area of Edmonton. Meridian Water One Planet Living Meridian Water can create a low carbon, ecologically responsible community that offers a desirable place for people to live, work and play. Meridian Water can help to deliver an integrated vision of contemporary waterfront living that sets new standards in sustainability. Meridian Water presents an extraordinary opportunity for a site-wide district heating network which takes advantage of the proposals for a Borough wide decentralised energy network that builds on the infrastructure assets of the Lee Valley. The nearby energy centres and industrial corridor creates the prime opportunity to capture the released heat from these operations to deliver secure, low cost, low carbon energy and heating to businesses and homes in Meridian Water and beyond. Our objectives are as follows: Promote a carbon neutral Eliminate, recycle and Mitigate and adapt to Choose local and neighbourhood manage waste climate change sustainable materials Promote equity and fair trade Be empathetic to national Provide for health and well- Promote the production of culture and heritage being food locally Recreate natural habitats and Promote sustainable transport Create connections to the Revitalise the surrounding encourage wildlife alternatives waterways and parks communities Meridian Water Living and Working The focus for housing growth in the east of Enfield is within the Upper Lee Valley Opportunity Area at Meridian Water in Central Leeside and Ponders End in north east Enfield. Meridian Water will create a sustainable community of up to 5000 new homes, constructed using the highest quality environmental design and construction techniques, with the spaces between them carefully designed to create places where people want to live, learn, work and play. The location and Scale is an important Connecting configuration of the Family homes element at Meridian Water. residential areas of Meridian The current landscape is communities Water will be designed to inhuman in scale, dominated connect with the existing by large warehouses and residential neighbourhoods major roads. to the east and west. The challenge