Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025

41 PONDERS END

In the Ponders End Place Shaping Priority Area (see boundary in Figure 9.5), three areas of future development have been identified: Ponders End Central, Ponders End South Street Campus and Ponders End Waterfront. The objectives of new development in Ponders End will be to create:

  • Up to 1,000 new homes up to 2026, with a range of sizes and tenures, including affordable homes. Sites that could accommodate housing as part of mixed use developments include the former Middlesex University campus at Ponders End Central, and Columbia Wharf and southern part of Brimsdown at Ponders End Waterfront;
  • An attractive public realm, designed to promote community safety, and promoting a better street environment along Hertford Road and South Street, and good links to public transport and leisure facilities such as Ponders End Recreation Ground and the Lee Valley Regional Park;
  • High quality new development that complements the heritage assets and historic environment of Ponders End, such as the listed Middlesex University building in Ponders End Central and Ponders End Flour Mill at Ponders End Waterfront;
  • Improve the quality of and access to Ponders End Recreation Ground;
  • A holistic development at Ponders End Central incorporating the former Middlesex University campus, Queensway employment area, better use of land around the Tesco store and a vibrant, good quality local shopping centre and community hub, with vacant sites along Ponders End High Street redeveloped to complement the local offer;
  • Explore options to improve the provision of community service, currently located at Swan Annex;
  • A pedestrian-oriented community hub at Ponders End South Street Campus, with a new Academy at its heart, an improved relationship between the Alma towers and surrounding community, a proper street network with uses fronting the street and improved access to Ponders End station and between the station and the Lee Valley Regional Park;
  • A new mixed use, employment, leisure and residential community at Ponders End Waterfront of exceptional quality, including sites at the southern part of Brimsdown and Columbia Wharf, helping to reconnect the Ponders End community with its waterfront and contributing to the chain of attractions along the Lee Valley Regional Park. A reduction in flood risk through the appropriate location, layout and design of new development and mix of land uses will be sought; and
  • A co-ordinated strategy to managing flood risk in accordance with Core Policy 28 and for the decommissioning of surplus gas holders and other contaminated land in the area in line with Core Policy 32.

For more information please see the Core Strategy 2010-2025