Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025

17 TOWN CENTRES

The Council will strengthen the role of Enfield’s town centres by focusing new commercial, retail, leisure, office, residential and other appropriate social infrastructure related uses, such as police facilities within the centres according to the Borough’s town centre hierarchy identified in Table 6.3, using the sequential test to direct development to appropriate sites.

  • The Major Centre of Enfield Town will continue to be supported as the main destination for comparison goods shopping, and also the main centre for leisure, entertainment and cultural activities, as well as office uses. Enfield Town will be the preferred location for new retail, leisure and cultural developments, particularly those with a borough-wide catchment area;
  • The District Centres of Angel Edmonton, Edmonton Green, Palmers Green and Southgate will continue to be supported and strengthened as important shopping and service centres to meet people’s day-to-day needs. They should complement Enfield Town by providing for main and bulk convenience food shopping and a good range of comparison shopping facilities, and other town centre related services and facilities. The Council will take a proactive partnership approach to reinvigorating these town centres, widening their role and offer, developing their identities, improving the public realm and accessibility to them. Edmonton Green and Angel Edmonton will be priorities for physical, environmental and economic renewal;
  • Development proposals which foster a diverse evening and night time economy in Enfield Town and the Borough’s district centres of Edmonton Green, Angel Edmonton, Southgate and Palmers Green will be supported providing that measures are in place to address issues such as community safety, policing, litter and the potential impact of noise and disturbance to local people, for example through the establishment of an Entertainment Management Zone; and
  • Enfield’s Local Centres will continue to be supported in providing core local shopping facilities and services (such as convenience store, post office, pharmacy and newsagent) for their respective local communities; largely catering for a catchment area within walking distance. Local shopping parades to support the regeneration of place shaping priority areas will be considered as part of comprehensive masterplans for these areas as set out in Core policies 37-45. A new Local Centre is proposed in Meridian Water within the Central Leeside Area Action Plan boundary, to cater for the day to day needs of the new local community that is to be established there.

Town Centre Management

The Council will work with its partners to support town centre management initiatives which enhance the vitality and viability of centres and improve the quality of the environment, and conserve and enhance the historic, archaeological and architectural heritage within them.

For more information please see the Core Strategy 2010-2025