Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025

30 MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF THE BUILT AND OPEN ENVIRONMENT

All developments and interventions in the public realm must be high quality and design-led, having special regard to their context. They should help to deliver Core Policy 9 (Supporting Community Cohesion) by promoting attractive, safe, accessible, inclusive and sustainable neighbourhoods, connecting and supporting communities and reinforcing local distinctiveness.

The Council will:

  • Adopt Borough-wide standards and guidance relating to design quality, including:
    • Maximising restoration of, access to and visibility of the blue ribbon network and the Borough’s green assets;
    • Addressing issues at the urban edge; and
    • Reversing the decline in the loss of street greenery, architectural detailing, boundary treatments and addressing the impact of parking on front gardens.
  • Build on and extend the Enfield Characterisation Study to investigate wider urban design issues and identify:
    • Poor quality environments where improvements are needed;
    • Opportunities for strategic design interventions that will significantly enhance people’s experience of the Borough;
    • Areas of distinctive quality that warrant protection, but that do not meet the standards for conservation area designation;
    • Areas appropriate, inappropriate and sensitive to tall buildings, including consideration of the strategic growth areas located in the Upper Lee Valley Opportunity Area. These areas will be mapped and policies will be developed as part of the Development Management DPD;
    • Important strategic and local views; and
    • Opportunities for enhancing local distinctiveness, including that of the historic settlements which make up the Borough.

Tailored design standards and guidance will be prepared to:

  • Guide development in areas of significant change (initially at Ponders End, Meridian Water, New Southgate and the North Circular Road Area, Enfield Town and Edmonton) through masterplanning work and the preparation of design codes;
  • Produce site-specific planning and design briefs for key sites to ensure the maximum potential of the site is realised; and
  • Further coordinate the activities of Council departments and work with statutory undertakers in order to protect and enhance the quality of the public realm.

For more information please see the Core Strategy 2010-2025