Policy information sourced from Enfield’s Edmonton Leeside Area Action Plan
EL28 New and Existing Green Spaces
The Council will work with stakeholders, including the landowners, to bring forward new areas of open and green space and bring underused and vacant spaces back into active use.
Development proposals which include the provision of new open space or existing open space must explore and justify the range of appropriate uses for the location. Examples of potentially appropriate uses include:
- Sports;
- Recreation;
- Flood storage capacity;
- Nature conservation; and
- New or enhanced landscaping.
The land on either side of the North Circular Road to the east and north-east of Meridian Water has been identified as offering potential for the creation of new open space. There is also potential to improve the access and functions at existing green and open spaces including at Picketts Lock and Kenninghall Open Space. Green and open space should be explored for multiple uses, including as providing potential flood storage capacity.
Proposals will be supported that improve the access across and between existing and new green spaces, developing a network of ‘green chains’ comprising footpath networks and cycle paths. Green chains can be used to improve east-west connectivity between the Lee Valley Regional Park and the rest of Edmonton Leeside and beyond. Proposals must not generate negative impacts such as recreational disturbance on sites of ecological importance, including the Chingford Reservoirs SSSI and Lee Valley Special Protection Area/ Ramsar site at Walthamstow Reservoirs.
New development may be expected to make appropriate financial contributions to protecting and improving green and open spaces and biodiversity, in line DMD 72 and other relevant policies shown below.
This policy should be read in conjunction with Core Strategy policies 34 and 35, DMD policies 71, 72, 76, 77 and 78 and London Plan Policies 2.18 and 7.27.
For more information please see the Edmonton Leeside Area Action Plan