Policy information sourced from Enfield’s Edmonton Leeside Area Action Plan
EL27 Watercourses At Edmonton Leeside
The watercourses within Edmonton Leeside provide opportunities to create a distinctive and attractive sense of place. Waterfront developments should capitalise on the location, in particular at Meridian Water. Development proposals at waterfront locations must:
- Positively address the waterfront through providing an active frontage;
- Enable public access to the waterways, including movement to, from, alongside and, where possible, across the water;
- Optimise potential for water-based recreation and leisure use;
- Provide, where suitable, cultural and leisure uses including cafes, bars and restaurants and high quality public open spaces at the waterfront; and
- Protect and enhance habitats and biodiversity, through measures including softening of river channel edges where appropriate.
Proposals for the restoration or the increased use of the River Lee Navigation, Pymmes Brook and Salmons Brook as the Lee Valley waterways within Edmonton Leeside will be supported in line with London Plan policies on the Blue Ribbon Network and DMD policy 63 on the protection and improvement of watercourses and flood defences.
Proposals for new residential moorings will be supported provided they are designed in a way which does not negatively affect the environment and meet the requirements of policy DMD 75.
Where development is located close to a waterway and has a significant need for cooling (a cooling load of 500KW or more), the feasibility of using water from the waterway as part of a low carbon cooling system should be evaluated (see Chapter 12).
This policy should be read in conjunction with Core Strategy policies 35 and 38, DMD policies 63, 75, 76, and 78 and London Plan policies 2.18, 7.19, 7.24, 7.27, and 7.30.
For more information please see the Edmonton Leeside Area Action Plan