Policy information sourced from Enfield’s North East Enfield Area Action Plan (NEEAAP)
10.2 Ponders End Central
Ponders End Central forms a key development opportunity within the NEE Area, and its redevelopment has the potential to transform this part Ponders End High Street. Key principles are set out in Figure 10.4 and include:
- development should follow the principles set out in the Ponders End Central Planning Brief. However, uses other than residential on the Queensway Campus may be an acceptable alternative to those uses required by the Planning Brief;
- development onto the High Street should create positive frontages, with retail and other uses appropriate to the town centre at ground fl oor and residential above. Moving back from the High Street, the development should be predominantly residential with good quality streets and spaces;
- the positive frontages onto the High Street should be designed to refl ect the scale and grain of the existing area, particularly respecting the vertical rhythm of shopfronts;
- development onto the High Street should include the public realm improvements set out in Project 10.1b;
- a pedestrian and cyclist route should be provided adjacent to the Jalaliah Jamme Masjeed Mosque. This should be designed as a high quality landscaped space suitable for users of the Mosque and other community facilities to gather in;
- new development on the High Street should be carefully designed so as to terminate views along streets and other public areas with positive building frontages;
- the boundary between mixed-use development onto the High Street and the school should be sensitively designed to (i) minimise overlooking of the school area from new development; and (ii) minimise exposed blank boundaries to the school onto publicly accessible areas within the mixed-use development;
- whilst the former Middlesex University site and the area onto the High Street will come forward separately, they should be designed so that they can be connected together (for pedestrians, cyclists and cars) in the future should the pattern of uses change; and
- Swan Annex frontage and main building should be sensitively converted to a use that supports High Street activities.
For more information please see the North East Enfield Area Action Plan (NEEAAP)