Policy information sourced from Enfield Development Managament Document (DMD)

DMD 8 General Standards for New Residential Development

New residential development will only be permitted if all of the following relevant criteria are met. All development must:

  • Be appropriately located, taking into account the nature of the surrounding area and land uses, access to local amenities, and any proposed mitigation measures;
  • Be of an appropriate scale, bulk and massing;
  • Preserve amenity in terms of daylight, sunlight, outlook, privacy, overlooking, noise and disturbance;
  • Meet or exceed minimum space standards in the London Plan and London Housing Design Guide;
  • Provide a well-designed, flexible and functional layout, with adequately sized rooms in accordance with the London Housing Design Guide;
  • Meet Lifetime Homes Standards and, in line with local and Mayoral guidance relating to accessible housing, 10% of all units (of different sized homes) should be wheelchair accessible or easily adapted for wheelchair users and the building as a whole should be designed to be accessible for wheelchair users;
  • Provide high quality amenity space as part of the development in line with DMD 9 ‘Amenity Space’;
  • Provide adequate access, parking and refuse storage which do not, by reason of design or form, adversely affect the quality of the street scene;
  • Ensure that hardstandings do not dominate the appearance of the street frontages or cause harm to the character or appearance of the property or street, and are permeable in line with DMD policies on Flood Risk; and
  • Ensure that boundary treatments do not dominate or cause harm to the character or appearance of the property or street and maintain visibility splays. In the case of front boundary treatments, the height should not normally exceed 1m.

For more information please see the Development Managament Document (DMD)