The Enfield Plan Enfield’s Choices Enfield’s Local Development Framework Core Strategy Issues & Options Report March 2007 Core Strategy Issues and Options (Cabinet Sub Committee 27.03.07) Enfield Council Contents Foreword i 0 Part 1: Planning Enfield's Future 1 Context 1 1.1 What sort of future do we want to see for Enfield? 1 1.2 The Enfield Plan 1 1.3 What we already know 1 2 A New Direction for Enfield 3 2.1 Background 3 2.2 Key Drivers of Change 3 2.3 Key Issues 4 2.4 The Triple Arc 6 2.5 Strategic Objectives 8 2.6 Your Views 9 0 Part 2 : Green Enfield 3 Introduction 11 4 Environmental Resources, Climate Change, and Biodiversity 13 4.1 Introduction 13 4.2 Sustainable Design and Construction 13 4.3 Biodiversity 13 4.4 Energy and Renewable Energy 14 4.5 Waterways 14 4.6 Flooding 15 4.7 Waste 15 4.8 Aggregates 16 4.9 Your Views 18 5 Green Belt, Open Space and Sports 21 5.1 The Green Belt 21 5.2 Metropolitan Open Land 23 5.3 Open Spaces 23 5.4 Playing Pitches and Indoor Sports Facilities 25 5.5 Your Views 26 0 Part 3 : New Enfield 6 Introduction 31 7 Housing 33 7.1 Introduction 33 7.2 Protecting and Improving the Housing Stock 34 7.3 Managing the Supply of New Housing 35 7.4 Providing Affordable Housing 37 7.5 Providing Lifetime Homes and Housing to Meet Particular Needs 38 7.6 Your Views 40 Enfield Council Core Strategy Issues and Options (Cabinet Sub Committee 27.03.07) Contents 8 Community and Social Infrastructure 43 8.1 Introduction 43 8.2 Social Infrastructure 43 8.3 Improving Areas of Deprivation 44 8.4 Health 44 8.5 Education and Child Poverty 45 8.6 Your Views 46 9 Employment 49 9.1 Introduction 49 9.2 Balancing the Demand and Supply of Land for Employment Uses 49 9.3 Protecting Employment Land and Improving Job Quality 51 9.4 Developing the Skill and Employment Opportunities of Local People 53 9.5 Your Views 54 10 Transport 57 10.1 Introduction 57 10.2 Transport and Land Use 57 10.3 Public Transport 58 10.4 Parking 59 10.5 Freight 60 10.6 Accessibility 60 10.7 Your Views 61 11 Key Places for Change 63 11.1 Upper Lee Valley 63 11.2 North Circular Road 65 11.3 Your Views 66 0 Part 4 : Heart of Enfield 12 Introduction 67 13 Residential Character, Urban Design and the Public Realm 69 13.1 Residential Character 69 13.2 Urban Design 69 13.3 The Public Realm 70 13.4 Your Views 71 14 Conservation 73 14.1 Conservation Areas 73 14.2 Listed Buildings 74 14.3 Tree Protection 74 14.4 Archaeology and Ancient Monuments 74 14.5 Your Views 75 Core Strategy Issues and Options (Cabinet Sub Committee 27.03.07) Enfield Council Contents 15 Town Centres and Retailing 77 15.1 Introduction 77 15.2 Town Centre Uses- Demand and Capacity 77 15.3 Management of Change in Town Centres 79 15.4 Entertainment, Leisure and the Evening and Night-time Economy 79 15.5 Your Views 80 0 Part 5 : What's Next 16 What's Next 83 0 Appendices 1 Enfield Strategic Partnership's Sustainable Community Strategy 1 2 Enfield's Spatial Portrait 3 3 Spatial Planning Framework 7 4 The Evidence Base 11 5 Components of the Local Development Framework 19 6 Glossary 21 Enfield Council Core Strategy Issues and Options (Cabinet Sub Committee 27.03.07) Contents Core Strategy Issues and Options (Cabinet Sub Committee 27.03.07) Enfield Council i Foreword This year sees the start of a wide reaching and long lasting initiative to enhance and protect Enfield’s quality of life. The Enfield Strategic Partnership, made up of the borough’s key organisations, has just approved a new Community Strategy for the borough. The Strategy introduces a bold new concept for Enfield to underpin the Strategy’s overall vision and provide a common basis for the Partners’ future plans to shape Enfield's future. Enfield Council is now starting borough-wide consultation on the Enfield Plan, its Local Development Framework for shaping the future of the borough, which will make a vital contribution to achieving the Community Strategy’s vision. The Council, a key Partnership member, is seeking views and comments from people and organisations across Enfield as the first step. This foreword therefore introduces the Enfield Plan’s Issues and Options Report, which asks for your comments on the issues, opportunities and options facing Enfield today and in the future. I would urge everyone who is concerned to see Enfield’s quality of life conserved and improved to send us your views now, and to continue to contribute to this new plan as it is prepared. Councillor. ……….. March 2007 ii Enfield Council Core Strategy Issues and Options (Cabinet Sub Committee 27.03.07) Foreword Part 1 Planning Enfield’s Future 1 Context 2 A New Direction for Enfield Core Strategy Issues and Options (Cabinet Sub Committee 27.03.07) Enfield Council 1 1 Context 1.1 What sort of future do we want to see for Enfield? 1.1.1 In March this year the Enfield Strategic Partnership agreed a new Community Strategy for the borough, “Enfield’s Future – a Sustainable Community Strategy for Enfield 2007 – 2017”. The partners are committed to making Enfield: - A healthy prosperous cohesive community living in a borough that is safe, clean and green. 1.1.2 The Council is now preparing The Enfield Plan, its Local Development Framework, as a vital contribution to the development and implementation of the Community Strategy’s overall vision. 1.2 The Enfield Plan 1.2.1 The government’s new planning legislation(1) requires the Council to replace its Unitary Development Plan with a Local Development Framework. The LDF will be a portfolio of related documents, with its Core Strategy as the cornerstone planning text (appendix 5 gives more details). 1.2.2 To prepare the Core Strategy the Council needs to work with Enfield’s people and organisations to develop a spatial vision for the Borough’s future, to identify Enfield’s issues, challenges and opportunities, and to determine what options there are to deal with them. This Issues and Options Report sets out the Council’s initial findings and suggestions for your consideration and comment. 1.3 What we already know 1.3.1 This report builds on the Community Strategy and existing Council plans, strategies and studies. It recognises the requirements of national and London-wide policies and strategies, and uses relevant national and regional studies and information. The Sustainable Community Strategy sets out an overall borough vision and objectives and describes how the partner organisations will work together to realise the vision. Appendix 1 gives details of the strategy and the Enfield Strategic Partnership. To meet governmental requirements for preparing the LDF, the Council has prepared and approved a Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report, which sets out the background circumstances and evidence against which the sustainability of LDF policies and proposals will be assessed; and Annual Monitoring Reports which communicate the current status of plan preparation, primarily to the government. Both include a Spatial Portrait of the borough (reproduced in appendix 2), which looks at the historical development of the borough, its present circumstances and the key drivers for change now being experienced. The Council has also approved, after consultation and independent examination, a Statement of Community Involvement for the LDF which sets out how you will be involved in the preparation of the LDF documents. As a precursor for the new planning system, the Council consulted on and approved a Spatial Planning Framework for the Borough in 2003. Appendix 3 gives details. 1 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 2 Enfield Council Core Strategy Issues and Options (Cabinet Sub Committee 27.03.07) 1 Context The Council also has a wide range of other strategies, studies and surveys, some produced specifically to support the LDF. These are listed in appendix 4, which gathers together the Evidence Base for the Core Strategy. The London Plan(2) and the Mayor of London’s other strategies have been taken fully into account. A wide range of studies, surveys, guidance notes and other documents produced by the Greater London Authority, the London Development Agency, Transport for London and other mayoral organisations have provided invaluable input, and have been included in appendix 4. Governmental planning policy statements and guidance notes have also been given full consideration; and its studies, best practice guidance and other relevant material have provided vital support in preparing this report (see appendix 4). ______________________________________________________________________ 2 The London Plan: Spatial Development Strategy for Greater London, Greater London Authority (February 2004) Core Strategy Issues and Options (Cabinet Sub Committee 27.03.07) Enfield Council 3 2 A New Direction for Enfield 2.1 Background 2.1.1 Towards the end of 2006 the need for clear linkages between the various strategies of the Council and its Enfield partners became evident, so an overarching approach to the delivery of economic, social and environment well being in Enfield has been drawn up and included in the Enfield Strategic Partnership’s Sustainable Community Strategy to supply those linkages. This approach, the triple arc concept, is guided by the principles of sustainable development set out in the Government’s policy statement, “Delivering Sustainable Development”(3): social progress which recognises the needs of everyone effective protection of the environment the prudent use of natural resources the maintenance of high and stable levels of economic growth and employment 2.1.2 The concept underpins the Sustainable Community Strategy, and sets out a clear direction for all the Council’s strategies and plans.