Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025
34 PARKS, PLAYING FIELDS AND OTHER OPEN SPACES
The Council will protect and enhance existing open space and seek opportunities to improve the provision of good quality and accessible open space in the Borough by:
- Protecting Metropolitan Open Land (MOL) and extending its designation to include green chains that meet MOL designation criteria;
- Requiring improvements to open space provision through increasing the access to, quantity and quality of publicly accessible open spaces and supporting the community use of non-public open spaces. Priority will be given to addressing areas of deficiency identified in the Enfield Open Space Study, particularly in the south and east of the Borough;
- Requiring the provision of new and improved play spaces to address existing deficiencies and to meet future needs, with priority given to those areas where the deficiency of play space is considered most significant as identified in the Enfield Open Space Study;
- Seeking to address deficiencies in allotment provision across the Borough identified in the Enfield Open Space Study, through improving existing allotments, and creating new informal growing spaces;
- Requiring the creation of new open space at Central Leeside as part of the regeneration of Meridian Water and which provides effective links to the Lee Valley Regional Park to the north and south;
- Exploring opportunities for links to the East London Green Grid particularly for communities in the east of the Borough; and
- Maximising the potential for parks and playing pitches to be used for formal, organised sporting activities, particularly in the context of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics Games and its Legacy Transformation.
For more information please see the Core Strategy 2010-2025