Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025
21 DELIVERING SUSTAINABLE WATER SUPPLY, DRAINAGE AND SEWERAGE INFRASTRUCTURE
The Council will work with developers, residents and water supply and sewerage companies to ensure that Enfield’s future water resource needs, wastewater treatment and drainage infrastructure are managed effectively in a coordinated manner by:
- Ensuring that water supply, sewerage and drainage infrastructure is in place in tandem with development, to accommodate the levels of growth anticipated within the Borough. New development may need to be phased to allow the prior completion of necessary infrastructure;
- Promoting water conservation and efficiency measures in all new developments, and, where possible, via a retrofitting process in existing developments; and
- Ensuring that sustainable drainage measures are incorporated within new developments, wherever possible, as a means to manage surface water run off.
Subject to the nature of proposals, developers may need to ascertain the impact of development on existing water supply and wastewater infrastructure. Water and wastewater infrastructure requirements will need to be put in place in tandem with planned growth and prior to the occupation of new development to ensure that additional water resources are provided in a timely and efficient manner and that Enfield’s drainage and sewerage infrastructure is sustainable.
In order to improve water quality in the Borough during the life of this Plan, Thames Water Utilities Ltd plan to improve/redevelop Deephams Sewage Treatment Water Works.
The Development Management Document will set out criteria to promote high standards of sustainable design and construction. The Enfield Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document will provide more detailed design advice on methods to effectively manage water.
For more information please see the Core Strategy 2010-2025