Policy information sourced from Enfield Core Strategy 2010-2025

6 MEETING PARTICULAR HOUSING NEEDS

The Council, with its partners, will develop flexible and accessible accommodation services that meet the local housing needs of vulnerable adults and that support the delivery of the Personalisation Agenda. Future accommodation requirements will be set out in the emerging Health and Adult Social Care commissioning strategies. These strategies should be used as a tool for shaping and informing future development in the Borough. There is a particular need to control the development of traditional residential care home provision and align the development of supported accommodation services with local need.

The Council will work to ensure that there is appropriate provision of specialist accommodation across all tenures. Criteria for assessing applications for housing to meet particular needs, having regard to need and supply will be set out in the Development Management Document.

Locations for gypsy and traveller sites should meet the following criteria:

  • There is vehicular access from the public highway and provision for parking, turning and servicing on site to ensure road safety for occupants and visitors;
  • There is no harm to visual amenity and there is adequate landscaping and planting, with appropriate trees and shrubs;
  • The site has good access to shops, health care, school and other education facilities;
  • The site is not in an area at high risk of flooding, including functional floodplains; and
  • The size of the site is appropriate to its local context, and in relation to the local infrastructure and population size and density.

The Council will work with the Mayor of London to identify whether there is a requirement for pitches within the Borough, taking into account the existing supply of pitches readily accessible from the Borough in the wider area. Where need can be demonstrated, the Sites Schedule or relevant area action plan will consider appropriate sites for gypsy and travellers accommodation, having regard to the above criteria and any further guidance to be included in the Development Management Document as necessary. The presence of green belt and flood risk areas within the Borough will constrain and limit opportunities for identifying sites.

For more information please see the Core Strategy 2010-2025