Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025

42 ENFIELD TOWN

The Council will seek to retain Enfield Town’s market town character and protect its heritage assets, their setting and the historic environment, whilst maximising development opportunities to enhance the retail function of the centre to better serve the retail and community needs of the Borough and beyond.

The town centre has the potential to accommodate 500 new homes (see Core Policy 2) and meet a proportion of the Borough’s projected retail growth (see Core Policy 18). The main focus for growth and new development in the town will be around Enfield Town station (see Core Policy 43 for Enfield Town Station below), with some additional development at key strategic points in the town in order to maintain vitality. These include at the former Rialto/Gala Bingo site, which will reinforce the historic focus of activity around Market Square and Church Street, and new leisure and civic uses around Little Park Gardens, which will create a new attraction in the west of the town and help to add vibrancy to the western end of Church Street.

The town will continue to play a commercial role in the Borough – as such the loss of office uses will be resisted and new fit-for-purpose office uses within new development promoted. The Council supports the promotion of the town centre as a more attractive evening destination, with higher quality uses such as restaurants, bars and pubs and commercial leisure uses such as health and fitness will be encouraged. There will be a focus on the growth of jobs in the hospitality and retail sectors (see Core Policy 13 on Promoting Economic Prosperity).

Enfield Town will continue to provide high quality social and community facilities, supporting existing and new populations in Enfield Town, as well as residents elsewhere in the Borough in line with its role as a Major Centre. The Council will work with the Primary Care Trust to accommodate a new Neighbourhood Centre health facility serving 50,000 patients in Enfield Town (see Core Policy 7). The town’s successful schools will continue to provide the highest quality of education to Enfield’s young people, with plans for improvements supported taking into consideration the inherent physical constraints of the town. Access to the high quality open spaces surrounding the town, such as Town Park, Library Green and Chase Side, will be improved.

An Area Partnership will be bought forward to ensure the widest success for Enfield Town. The Area Partnership will take responsibility for a Single Implementation Plan.

For more information please see the Core Strategy 2010-2025