Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025
13 PROMOTING ECONOMIC PROSPERITY
The Council will protect and improve Enfield’s employment offer helping to facilitate the creation of a minimum of 6,000 new jobs from 2010-2026, focusing new growth in the Upper Lee Valley and Enfield’s town centres. Approximately a minimum of 4,000 new jobs are expected to be created in the Upper Lee Valley with the remainder concentrated in Enfield’s main town centres and in other place shaping priority areas.
| Spatial distribution of new jobs | By 2026 |
|---|---|
| Upper Lee Valley | 4,000 |
| Other town centres and Place Shaping Priority Areas | 2,000 |
| Borough total At least | 6,000 |
Building on Enfield’s success
The Council will seek to maintain the competitiveness of employment sectors that are well established and successful in Enfield, providing support and investment to existing companies in order that they stay in the Borough and to new companies to encourage them to invest. This could include developing more proactive liaison with local companies, establishing more formalised management structures such as Business Improvement Districts (if and where there is support from businesses) and providing more coordinated public realm and infrastructure improvements in business locations. Examples include the logistics and distribution, advanced manufacturing, transport and communications and wholesale, construction, and repair sectors in North East Enfield and retail in Enfield Town.
Diversifying the employment base
The Council will seek to diversify Enfield’s economy, intervening proactively where necessary to facilitate the establishment of growth sectors that are currently under-represented in Enfield as follows:
- In North East Enfield, there is scope to develop low carbon industries in Brimsdown which include renewable energy production, low carbon technology and manufacturing and recycling. In the longer-term, there could also be an opportunity to reposition North East Enfield as a location for internationally oriented businesses, taking advantage of its location in relative proximity to Stansted Airport and the economic growth predicted in the London-Stansted-Cambridge-Peterborough growth corridor. There are also opportunities to generate employment in sport, leisure and recreation, with a new water-based leisure facility at Columbia Wharf and an extended sports and leisure offer at Pickett’s Lock in accordance with Core Policy 40;
- In Central Leeside, if the continuing decline in employment is to be reversed, significant policy intervention to achieve transformational change is required in order to position the area as somewhere attractive to growth sectors such as business services, creative industries, hospitality and retail. When considering the balance of services and facilities in the new centre, attention will need to be paid to the needs of incoming businesses as well as new residents in accordance with Core Policy 38; and
- In Enfield’s main town centres, there is scope to diversify the range of town centre uses to include more leisure, cultural and evening economy activities, business services and creative industries in accordance with Core Policy 17.
For more information please see the Core Strategy 2010-2025