Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025

40 NORTH EAST ENFIELD

North East Enfield’s reputation as a thriving and competitive industrial business location will be enhanced, with the Strategic Industrial Locations of Brimsdown, Redburn Trading Estate and Meridian Business Park and Freezywater retained, with the latter expanded to include Innova Park (see Core Policy 14 on Safeguarding Strategic Industrial Locations). These estates will continue to be the focus for environmental improvements and investment, developing new industries particularly in the niche high-tech and green industry sectors (see Core Policy 13 on Promoting Economic Prosperity).

Across the North East Enfield area, there is scope to develop 1,000 new homes (see Core Policy 2 on Housing Supply and Locations for New Homes). The focus for change and development, and hence the majority of these new homes, will be in Ponders End (see Core Policy 41 on Ponders End below), where there is a string of key opportunity sites along an east-west axis. In the west, in the heart of Ponders End local centre, there is a cluster of sites including the former Middlesex University campus, adjacent Queensway employment area, land around Tesco and sites along Hertford Road, referred to as “Ponders End Central”. In the middle, along South Street, there are opportunities at the gasholder site on South Street, around Ponders End railway station, and at Alma Estate. This collection of sites is referred to as “Ponders End South Street Campus”. In the east, near the Lee Valley Regional Park, development opportunities exist at Columbia Wharf and at the southern part of Brimsdown, collectively referred to as “Ponders End Waterfront”. The interdependencies of these sites mean that their future should be considered and planned for in a holistic way to ensure that the cumulative social, economic and transport impacts are thoroughly assessed.

Social and community infrastructure to support an expanding population will be accommodated. This includes a large new health practice in Innova Park and the expansion of Eagle House surgery in Ponders End (see Core Policy 7). A new Academy will be developed in Ponders End, replacing Albany secondary school, and allowing the Albany School site to be developed for residential or continued educational uses, depending on the Council’s future education requirements (see Core Policy 8). The local retail centres of Ponders End, Enfield Highway and Enfield Wash will be enhanced to improve the shopping experience. Sites will be identified in Ponders End to accommodate retail uses in accordance with Core Policies 17 and 18. Enhanced access to and quality of recreation and leisure opportunities will also be promoted.

The Council will work with the Enfield Strategic Partnership to develop an Area Partnership for wider North East Enfield and bring forward a Single Implementation Plan.

The Council will promote improvements to public transport and access to the area by car, bicycle and on foot (see Core Policies 25 and 26), and in particular: