Opportunity Enfield Issue 11
The Regeneration of Enfield
Meridian time Major Enfield scheme boldly marches forward to reach new levels Energy efficient Inspiring new ideas and crucial promises made to tackle climate change
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Contents
Editor-in-chief Suruchi Sharma Design Smallfury Production manager Christopher Hazeldine Business development director Paul Gussar Senior business development manager Shelley Cook Project manager Sue Mapara Subscriptions manager Simon Maxwell Managing director Toby Fox
Cover Image Field Day visitors arriving via the new Meridian Water station – photo provided by Enfield Council
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7 News
Updates on the latest development news from the borough.
14 Destination Enfield
Why Enfield’s calendar of events make it an attractive place to live and visit, marking it out as a borough of fun.
23 Making waves
Tracking the route and talking to those breathing life into Enfield’s ambitious Meridian Water development.
30 Tracking progress
How the borough’s newest train station will benefit regular rail users from the area as well as the wider community.
As a major employer builds its HQ in Enfield Town, what changes are being made to town centres to attract new firms and put communities first?
38 Temperature control Enfield is an award-winning council when it comes to the environment, but what else is the authority doing to win the battle against climate change?
42 Regeneration reports A summary of the progress of plans and schemes across the borough.
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52 Calling it home
How Enfield is rising to the challenge and seeking outside help to increase affordable housing for its residents.
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WAVING TO THE FUTURE (Below) Inland surfing experts The Wave are working on plans for a new indoor surfing destination, which is due to arrive in Edmonton in 2023 - it will be the first one to be created in London.
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A £40 million indoor surfing destination is due to arrive in Edmonton by 2023 – making London the first capital city to offer this type of sporting venue. Lee Valley Regional Park Authority is developing a planning application for the proposed centre with inland surfing specialists, The Wave. The venue will bring jobs and reinvigorate land found close to the Lee Valley Athletics Centre. Surfing will be included in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and is set to significantly grow in popularity as a sport. The centre aims to provide a venue ideal for all ages and abilities. Previously access to the sport has been held back by geographical limitations, weather conditions, swell conditions as well as wind, tide and daylight hours. The Wave London will use Wavegarden Cove technology to create the best conditions with around 1,000 quality waves per hour and heights starting at half a metre and peaking at almost two metres. Plans include a new purposebuilt surfing lake, a surfing and skateboarding centre, cycle trails, high ropes and glamping accommodation. The existing lake in the north of the leisure complex will not be affected by The Wave London and there is an aim to enhance its biodiversity. The centre is famous for its existing offerings including its popular London 2012 venues for cycling, white-water rafting, hockey and tennis destinations. Both preparatory works and ground investigations have started at the leisure complex. Shaun Dawson, the park authority’s chief executive, said: “These proposals have the potential to create a stunning new regional leisure hub bringing health, fitness, sport and outdoor activities to millions of people along with many new jobs. This marks another exciting chapter in the history of the Lee Valley.”
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News Community leads on action plans
DEVELOPMENT PARTNER SEARCH FOR MERIDIAN WATER Enfield Council is actively searching for development partners to deliver the next phases of strategic infrastructure works at the flagship £6 billion Meridian Water scheme. The successful bidders will help deliver strategic road works, junctions, bridges and utility services needed at the major Enfield development to provide 10,000 homes and 6,000 jobs – as well as support infrastructure including its new railway station and community facilities. The works will deliver two new parks, cycle lanes and infrastructure and allow the council’s energy company energetik to provide heat to both homes and businesses. The development partners will be responsible for tasks including demolition, construction, earth and remediation works and will have a role in design development. The authority expects to award a framework contract worth £135 million lasting five years. Enfield Council held an April 2019 event to share details of the upcoming works to gather interest and feedback
from potential contractors, and aims to create a shortlist of five contractors to be chosen by January 2020 with firms submitting their final tender by May. The council will carefully evaluate the tenders aiming for its cabinet to approve entering into a framework agreement with three contractors by July 2020. Once approved it will work closely with the contractors to develop the design and programme with works that are due to start in early 2021. Enfield Council leader, Councillor Nesil Caliskan, said: “These critical works will underpin the delivery of the entire project and the procurement of partner(s) to deliver this work demonstrates once again that Enfield Council is making Meridian Water a reality and the public sector is ready, willing and able to deliver successful large-scale construction projects in a way that truly benefits residents. “This is an exciting time for Enfield and an exciting time for London. We want partners that share our passion and vision and who can help us build something incredible.”
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(Above) The site for the £6 billion Meridian Water scheme is ready for the next phase of work, and (below) a local Beaver Scout is helped to hang a new flower basket in Palmers Green.
Tours around Enfield hosted by the council leader took place over the summer months to create community-led action plans to help revitalise the borough. Councillor Nesil Caliskan met with the public and businesses to help create a unique vision for each town centre, starting in the Palmers Green area in July 2019. Plans are due to be created to help with the strategic growth and resilience of each individual area, which also includes Enfield Town, Angel Edmonton, Southgate and Edmonton Green. Several co-ordinated events between community groups and the council have already taken place. The Palmers Green Action Team recently organised a mass clean-up with volunteers, schoolchildren and beaver and cub groups from the area. They were awarded funding from a £58,000 pot allocated to Enfield Council by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) from the Town Centres Clean Up Project Fund.
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BIKING ENCOURAGED TO BE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY Free cycling lessons will be available for schoolchildren as part of a major new scheme by Enfield Council to help contribute towards making the borough carbon neutral by 2030. The announcement was made at the inaugural meeting of the council’s Climate Change Task Force at the end of September 2019. The policy hopes to encourage young people to use sustainable forms of transport and gain skills and confidence to ride safely around the extensive segregated cycleways that are part of the borough’s ambitious Cycle Enfield programme. The task force is chaired by Enfield Council’s deputy leader, Councillor Ian Barnes, and made up of council officers, councillors and the borough’s young mayor and deputy mayor, Okan Gurhan and Christevie Ngoma. The council’s climate change declaration and pledge were both signed by its cabinet in July 2019. Cllr Barnes said: “Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time and the issue which most concerns people across
Plans approved for major development A planning application has been approved for Phase One of the major Montagu Industrial Estate redevelopment in Enfield. The Phase One works will start regeneration plans for the whole 27acre estate, which are being developed as part of a joint venture between landowner Enfield Council and Henry Boot Developments (HBD). Construction of the first phase is expected to begin in 2020, providing a multi-let scheme with 5,143sq m of space including eight modern industrial, warehouse units and offices. The units will range in size from 331 to 778sq m, providing the flexibility to combine units to meet occupier needs, and are considered an ideal size for SMEs in the area. Harry Bunbury is HBD London’s senior development surveyor. He said: “The first phase will help kick start the regeneration of the 27-acre site and will provide modern, high-quality industrial premises and business space to support small companies.” He added that future phases of the scheme would “include larger units which will allow businesses to grow, contributing to a thriving industrial estate and in turn strengthening the local economy in Enfield”.
(Above) The plan for the Montagu Industrial Estate redevelopment and (right) cycling is being promoted through a new scheme to get schoolchildren to ride bikes to help the environment.
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the planet. We absolutely must, and we absolutely will do whatever it takes in Enfield to play our full part in reducing the impact of our actions on the planet and its eco-systems. “The roll out of free cycle training across primary and secondary schools is just the start and will play an important role in reducing reliance on cars. It is the first of many new initiatives we intend to introduce as we encourage residents to play their part in considering what they can do to reduce the impact of their actions on the environment.” The task force will focus on areas such as physical supply chain, staff, residents, landscape, commercial and community tenants, council operations and buildings and investing in and or building renewable energy operations. The group will continue to work with residents and staff, and organisations such as Extinction Rebellion and Divest Enfield, and also plans to set up a Citizen’s Assembly to help provide advice on its aims.
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News (Left) Housing minister Esther McVey takes a tour of the Meridian Water scheme with Matthew Taylor, from Vistry Partnerships, and Enfield Council leader, Councillor Nesil Caliskan.
MINISTER TOURS MERIDIAN WATER DEVELOPMENT SITE Housing minister Esther McVey was given a tour of the first phase of the Meridian Water site by Enfield Council leader, Councillor Nesil Caliskan, to view the progress of the borough’s flagship development. This first phase of the scheme in Edmonton delivered by construction firm Vistry Partnerships (formerly Galliford Try Partnerships) is overall set to deliver around 850 homes. McVey toured the site in October 2019 with Cllr Caliskan and managing director of London developments at Vistry Partnerships, Matthew Taylor. It was announced in October 2019 that 50% of homes at the Meridian One site would be classed as affordable – up from the planning requirement of 25%. Taylor said: “It is fantastic to be working in partnership with such
a proactive and forward-thinking London Borough that is committed to accelerating housing delivery through public sector investment in infrastructure and development. “Our shared vision for Meridian Water will create a new vibrant mixeduse, mixed tenure neighbourhood for the local community. “We will create an environment for local people to thrive, providing them with high quality affordable homes, fantastic new public spaces, and opportunities for new local start-up businesses to grow. “Our proposals will achieve this by also celebrating and better connecting with the wider Lea Valley parkland area. This is a great opportunity to demonstrate how regeneration can drive real social value for local people.”
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Plans for energyefficient homes Two neighbouring estates in Upper Edmonton have been earmarked for major regeneration as part of a multimillion-pound scheme. Enfield Council agreed to plans to transform the Joyce and Snells estates at a cabinet meeting in early November 2019. The next stage is a ballot for residents to help progress designs towards creating a planning application. The project will focus on the quality of housing on the estates, how to add community space and gain significant investment for the area. The aim is to provide new energy-efficient homes for existing residents. The authority aims to provide more than 2,000 new homes with hundreds of new council homes and hundreds of council-owned homes for rent at various levels, all built and maintained by the council. Unlike the current private rented sector, the Joyce and Snells rental offer will allow residents to live in their home knowing they can stay for as long as they want through the availability of longer-term tenancies. A portion of homes will be allocated to key workers, and North Middlesex University Hospital has been in contact with the council about housing nurses and doctors on the redeveloped estates. The development will complement and support ongoing improvements in Angel Edmonton town centre. Enfield Council leader, Councillor Nesil Caliskan, said: “Our plans allow every existing resident to have a home on the estate. There will be a new home for all council tenants, an offer for resident leaseholders and the ability for existing private renters to access new Build to Rent apartments. “This project is as much about driving standards in the private rented sector, as it is about providing hundreds more council houses for residents and homes for key workers.”
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Enfield recently made headlines as one of London’s most popular music festivals, Field Day, moved to the area. But it is already a destination borough for many people, with a wide range of top events celebrating the area’s heritage, culture and diversity. With plenty more on the way at its new The Drumsheds venue, Hannah Gal looks at how Enfield’s calendar of events blends seamlessly across open spaces, historic houses and new developments to generate a borough filled with fun.
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hen an event is as successful as Field Day, it can sometimes be daunting to deliver the follow-up. But Enfield’s newest and coolest warehouse venue, The Drumsheds, does not look like it will be suffering from so-called second album syndrome. Having offered a dance music marathon for Halloween as well as big-name acts such as Chase and Status and Kano performing there, the venue is serving up plenty to follow Field Day - one of the most popular summer music events in London. The month of June 2019 brought a record crowd of 30,000 revellers to the annual occasion, which moved from Brockwell Park in the south of the capital to its new Enfield destination for the first time. “I’m delighted music fans turned out in force to enjoy a stunning event on their doorstep,” says Enfield Council leader, Councillor Nesil Caliskan. “Hosting large scale festivals puts Enfield on the map and shows we are open for business.” Many in the crowd arrived through the £46 million Meridian Water train station, which opened in June 2019, to
enjoy the festival that hosted a great number of artists including - Skepta, Jorja Smith, Diplo, Jungle, Pusha-T, Tirzah, Octavian and Deerhunter. Housed inside a former gasworks, The Drumsheds is made up of four giant interlinked warehouses with a 10,000 capacity each, and ten acres of generous outdoor space. Its location in Edmonton, found next to Tottenham Marshes and away from any residential areas, makes it an ideal venue for high volume, latenight events. It is part of the council’s flagship £6 billion Meridian Water scheme that is planned to provide 10,000 homes and more than 6,000 jobs. Luckily the fun did not stop at this venue as it clearly had plenty on its books, including a major event in November 2019. “Our assets create opportunities for the local community,” comments Mark Bradbury, the council’s director of property and economy. “These are events for everyone to enjoy and we hosted London’s biggest Halloween show.” Staged at The Drumsheds by acclaimed international promoters elrow, the ten-hour Horroween show in November 2019 had electronic
music, unusual dance floors, haunted houses, party zombies, monsters and horror-striking graveyards for brave revellers to experience. The Barcelona party brand also staged its huge elrow Town dance event in Enfield’s Trent Park in August 2019, with three themed stages, inflatables and over fifty DJs having moved from its original home in Stratford’s Olympic Park. For this massive scale event, the global operator selected Trent Park for its coveted London home, a choice no doubt driven by the park’s high
Annual outdoor music festival Field Day moved venues in summer 2019 to The Drumsheds in Edmonton and hosted a record crowd of 30,000 party-goers.
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Party promotors elrow held a summer dance event at Trent Park for the first time in August 2019 (left and below). Horroween (top) and at the Field Day bar (right).
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accessibility, just a few minutes away from Oakwood and Cockfosters on the Piccadilly line, and 20 minutes north of King’s Cross. Trent Park was also the location of the 51st State Festival, which this year marked its five-year anniversary. Thousands returned to Enfield to revel in the event’s annual blend of house music, reggae, disco and soul, performed by a stellar UK and international line-up including Crystal Waters, Louie Vega, David Morales, Todd Terry, Roger Sanchez and Dimitri From Paris among many others. Heritage and culture in the borough are often intertwined and Enfield Council puts equal focus on both areas, as important, historic sites are often used for huge cultural events. “Heritage is a core part of our strategy,” says Cllr Caliskan. “We have great assets in our borough and we want to make them accessible to everybody. There are town centres, great open spaces and beautiful, historic houses, with Forty Hall Estate being the jewel in the crown.” The borough is a vibrant hub for cultural and sporting events, ranging from family-oriented activities to huge-scale festivals attracting revellers from far and wide. The council has recently adopted an ambitious new five-year Heritage Strategy. Titled Making Enfield: Enfield Heritage Strategy 2019-2024, it adheres to the Mayor of London’s ‘good growth’ principles set to ensure that the benefits of growth positively impact all Enfield residents, and that the borough’s diverse communities are catered for. Enfield’s residents can currently experience the diverse traditions of different cultures through a multitude of festivals such as Ghana in the Park and The Mauritius Open Air Festival in Trent Park, Reggae on the Lawn and The Spirit of Ukraine at Forty Hall Estate, and the Cypriot Festival, now in its tenth year, is Britain’s largest umbrella event for the UK’s 300,000 Turkish Cypriot community. “Different parts of the borough have a different character. The idea is to enhance what is there already, be it historic houses we work hard to preserve, or open spaces such as our many historic parks. The Heritage Strategy 2019-2024 will sit alongside the development of Enfield’s Local Plan,” says Cllr Caliskan, embracing positive
regeneration and economic growth. The plan is already being put into practice at the vast Meridian Water, where Enfield Council put in place a Meanwhile Strategy. The idea is for Meridian Water to create a “truly mixed-use community for the capital, a place with character and edge, where beautiful homes and world class public spaces are enlivened by a rich mix of growing industries
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and surrounding communities,” says Peter George, programme director at Meridian Water. An affordable “beautiful new environment with fantastic connections” for local residents and Londoners, he adds. “The 10,000 new mixed-tenure homes will support growth in Enfield and London and provide aspiration and opportunity for everyone, at all stages of life and across all income scales,”
51st State Festival marked its five-year anniversary at Trent Park this summer (below) and singers at Reggae on the Lawn at Forty Hall Estate (bottom).
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Forty Hall Estate, owned and run by Enfield Council, has special events throughout the year in and around the Grade 1 Listed Jacobean Manor House.
says George. The local authority’s aim is to “create a 24-hour neighbourhood, a new destination to enjoy nightlife, music, theatre, cinema and much more, all year round. The Drumsheds are pathfinders in developing Meridian Waters’ contribution to the borough’s cultural profile”. Placemaking is also achieved through the conservation of the historic areas and buildings, such as the stunning Forty Hall. The estate is used throughout the year for family activities, theatre productions, dance events and
the unique music festival Livestock held in July 2019. An amalgamation of the ethos’s of Live Aid and Woodstock, the community-orientated event started out as a small street party, but soon became the borough’s must-see music celebration of the summer. “We provide locally-supplied bars and food stalls and our 2019 lineup was arguably the most eclectic to date,” says organiser Andrew Warshaw and adds: “We mix up-and-coming artists, established acts and tribute or cover bands, playing rock, blues, disco,
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folk, acoustic and Indie, so there is something for everyone. The coup this year (2019) was Dodgy, one of the iconic Britpop bands of the 90s, but arguably the most popular acts were covers-band The Vipers and Kent-based Gentlemen of Few with their mix of old-time bluegrass, harmonies and classic rock.” Livestock also promotes acts from the area through its regular monthly Music from the Black Barn spinoff gigs, which utilise one of the three Livestock stages to create “the most atmospheric music venue in the borough” which regulars frequent. Forty Hall also stages theatre shows, produced on the council’s behalf by Heartbreak Productions. “We are in our third year of holding four outdoor theatre events in our parks,” says the council’s commercial marketing officer Charlotte Goulding. “This year (2019) we’ve seen Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights and two performances of Gangsta Granny arrive in Enfield. These shows allow us to bring a varied type of performance into the borough and with all Heartbreak’s shows being interactive, it’s a fantastic way to get children and families involved.” Year on year the shows have grown in attendance and Goulding explains: “Following the successful attendance of last year’s (2018) The Midnight Gang at Forty Hall, the decision was made to have two showings of the David Walliams’ adaptation, extending a performance to Broomfield Park, on the other side of the borough.” Enfield is one of three funding focus areas in the capital that features in the National Lottery Heritage Fund Strategic Funding Framework 201924. As a result, the council anticipates it will be able to put in larger grant applications over the next five years, to secure funding for projects at Forty Hall Estate, the Lee Valley and Broomfield House and Park. Town centres are also great places to provide culture, and the council is determined to use public spaces in a positive way. Bradbury explains that the council “works hard to create areas of actual, practical use” to “invigorate town centres and facilitate events”. It appears that Enfield has several shiny jewels in its crown that makes the borough a fun and exhilarating place to visit throughout the year.
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WATERSHED MOMENT
The £6 billion Meridian Water project is one of the biggest developments in London in decades with 10,000 homes and 6,000 jobs planned for the area. OpEn celebrates the scheme’s progress so far and learns about the key decisions that have brought this to life. Shailja Morris reports.
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Enfield Council have all three attributes in spades and the project is quickly gaining ground and scoring major wins along the way. In 2018 the council took the bold step to successfully take control of the vision for the flagship scheme. It is now the main custodian of the
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(Above) Meridian Water is a major project for Enfield Council that aims to provide housing, work space, parkland and create a community for its future residents.
Follow the timeline Share the journey of the flagship Meridian Water project through its major milestones and future events...
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Building BloQs studio (right). The Drumsheds (below) held its first event in summer 2019 - it was Field Day that had around 30,000 revellers attend the popular festival.
programme, selecting development and other partners to drive forward the regeneration - and the brave decision is already paying off. In August 2019, Enfield became the first London borough to benefit from the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund, securing a £156 million cash boost for the Meridian Water project, as part of the Government’s £600 million package to support new homes in highdemand areas. Earlier in June, Meridian Water train station was up and running, in time to accommodate one of London’s best-loved music festivals, Field Day. Held in The Drumsheds - four giant interlinking warehouses with 10 acres of outdoor space next to Ikea - it drew 30,000 festival-goers, many of whom used the nearby newly-opened Meridian Water train station. It was the first time the festival had relocated to the area from Brockwell Park, and underlines the council’s commitment to developing the area into a cultural hub. Following the successful event, Film London approached the council to use the area as a filming location
and filming of a period drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch is already “in the can”. Plans for Meridian Water have been developed in partnership with advisors ARUP, KCA, Periscope and LSH. On completion, the former industrial and gasworks site just off the North Circular Road, in Edmonton, midway between the Lee Valley Regional Park and Tottenham will provide up to 10,000 homes - many of them affordable housing and 6,000 jobs over 35 hectares. The recent planning application, for phase two of Meridian Water, for the creation of a “vibrant riverside community” is the largest ever submitted by the local authority. If approved this phase alone could include up to 920 affordable homes built over the next decade – 40% of the total. The cornerstone of the council’s vision is a well thought out placemaking programme. The focus is on three pillars of placemaking that includes: Parklife on Your Doorstep; Your Place to Make and Create and Mixing Uses, Animating Streets. Meridian Water programme director, Peter George, who has steered
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2018 July Meridian Water is “back on track”. The mammoth development will deliver 10,000 homes and 6,000 jobs and create 8.2 hectares of parkland in the Lee Valley over the next 25 years. The end of the procurement process for a single master developer in favour of the council as project custodian marks a “watershed moment” - Cllr Nesil Caliskan, leader November Enfield Council seeks partners to deliver the first of meanwhile use opportunities at Meridian Water.
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the project over the last five years, emphasises that community cohesion is at the heart of the bold vision. George says: “Our number one objective for the project is to ensure that local people are principal beneficiaries of the scheme. We are focusing on the existing communities to help lift Edmonton out of the top 10% of the most deprived areas and making sure local people are benefitting.” He adds: “Our first pillar, Parklife on Your Doorstep, is all about bringing the Lee Valley Regional Park into every segment of the development so that it feels like you’re living in a lush, green and natural environment. “Our second pillar, Your Place to Make and Create, talks to the 6,000 jobs we’ll achieve at Meridian Water, across a spectrum - the creative industries at one end and more opportunities to bring the media sector, tech and other high-quality jobs into the development. “We are hoping to achieve high salary jobs here. The third pillar is all about having a really active vibrant ground floor and public realm. We are aiming for two-thirds of the ground
floor to be non-residential making it one of the most active of any new development in London. “We’re looking at a mixture of work space, food and beverage, culture, community and retail which will contribute to the 6,000 direct jobs the project will bring. On top of this there will be additional construction jobs.” The council has also recently submitted a planning application to provide a major new makerspace hub providing affordable workspace for hundreds of workers. Project partner, Building BloQs, will play a key role in providing creative manufacturing workshop space during the construction phase and beyond. If agreed, an existing vehicle testing building will be converted to offer around 2787 sq m of manufacturing workshop space with capacity for up to 1,000 workers across areas such as engineering, wood, metal and a fashion studio. Workers will have access to more than £1 million worth of light industrial equipment alongside skills training facilities, gardens and a waterside café.
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April Vistry Partnerships (formerly Galliford Try Partnerships) announced as development partner for Meridian One’s new homes. “We are thrilled to be part of a regeneration project that will be accelerating the delivery of affordable housing and working with a council committed to making the schemes work for the local area.” – Clare Crawford, business development and investment director, Vistry Partnerships May Enfield Council launches search for strategic infrastructure partners to deliver first phases of key infrastructure at Meridian Water. “These critical works will underpin the delivery of the entire project.” – Cllr Nesil Caliskan The £116 million infrastructure investment will deliver vital new roadworks, cycle lanes, bridges and utility services for the 10,000 new homes and 6,000 direct jobs. A further £40 million will be invested in rail improvements.
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Project partner in creating a makerspace hub, Building BloQs, will offer creative manufacturing workshop space during and after construction.
Meridian Water Phase One
The transformation of disused industrial land at Willoughby Lane - now known as Meridian One - will start in earnest in 2020 as development partner Vistry Partnerships (formerly Galliford Try Partnerships) moves on site to progress the building of between 725 - 950 new homes. First completions are due from the end of 2021 - no mean feat considering the project suffered a series of setbacks in the form of two failed bids since the council bought the land in 2014. However, as leader of Enfield Council, Councillor Nesil Caliskan, emphasises - the project is fully back on track. Construction enabling works started in January 2017 with new roads, environmental improvements and a high-frequency rail service all set to be delivered by 2024. Cllr Caliskan explains: “What has been remarkable is that within a year we’ve already been able to submit
a planning application for the next major phase at Meridian Water, we are appointing Galliford Try (now Vistry Partnerships) as development partner for Phase One and have a strategy for economic growth for the area. It is important to do all those things together so we can demonstrate acceleration of delivery. “We have also been speaking to the local community and finding out what they need in terms of social infrastructure. The important thing is there are significant stakeholders in that area like Ikea. We have had interesting conversations with them as they have control of large and strategically placed sites in that area so it’s not just what the council are driving forward on the land that we own but what others would drive forward on the
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land that they own.” Bolstering the programme is a £156 million cash injection from the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund to support the construction of new homes in London and the South East. The funds will be spent on creating two new parks, cycle lanes, connecting bridges and naturalised brooks, although the centrepiece will be an east-west “boulevard” linking Lee Valley Park with Meridian Water station. Additional track will be laid to allow up to eight trains per hour to stop at Meridian Water. Peter George explains: “For the development to be successful it has to look fantastic. To achieve the numbers of new homes, we anticipate it being predominantly a flatted development ranging from three storeys up to 20-
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plus storeys across the development with some maisonettes included. In line with our first placemaking pillar – Parklife on Your Doorstep – the developments will be softened with trees and greenery and green walls. A focal point will be a large square. The whole development will benefit from well-designed public realm.” The strong design and considered placemaking has not been without its challenges, reveals Enfield’s executive director of place, Sarah Cary. “It’s about making the spaces work at different times of the day for different types of people. It’s making sure that everyone can feel comfortable walking around at all times of the day. “The ‘meanwhile’ uses that we are planning are going to bring more life during the day. After all, it’s next to one of London’s biggest parks – the Lee Valley. We have a big asset there to build on - it feels like a place that you want to spend time in and we’re doing that through public events, through working with Ikea and different developers. Getting the density and diversity of people there over the first couple of
years is the biggest challenge for us.” Also high on the employment and skills agenda is an on-site construction and skills academy, led by development partner, Vistry Partnerships (formerly Galliford Try Partnerships). The firm’s business development and investment director, Clare Crawford, explains: “We are very excited about the academy. We will be putting in place training solutions, apprenticeships and work placements on the site.” She adds: “We already do this on our other sites but the really exciting thing about Enfield is that all partners involved in the bid want to extend the skills academy to other trades and professions. This includes skills prior to the building process - planning, design processes, development appraisals and after-build solutions such as housing management, maintenance and grounds maintenance. “From a social value perspective, we’re really excited about this long-term project with a committed council that enables that skills academy to stand the whole process of development and placemaking, as opposed to just
2019 June Meridian Water train station opens. The state of the art station, which replaces the nearby Angel Road station, is right beside Meridian One.
June Field Day Festival relocates from Brockwell Park to its new home at The Drumsheds at Meridian Water. “This was a real coup for us. It’s an example of the sorts of activities that will happen in the future at Meridian Water.” – Cllr Nesil Caliskan
“Our number one objective for the project is to ensure local people are principal beneficiaries” Meridian Water is a 25-year regeneration programme led by Enfield Council that will bring 10,000 homes and 6,000 jobs, with the first homes to be built by 2021.
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June Optivo, L+Q, Vistry Partnerships and Notting Hill Genesis are the developers shortlisted for Meridian Two. Meridian Two will be a mixed use scheme with 100% affordable housing and workspace. August Enfield is the first London Borough to be awarded £156 million in funding from the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund. “The success of the bid reflects the fact that the Government recognises the huge potential of Meridian Water.” – Cllr Nesil Caliskan
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the construction element.” The next housebuilding phase known as Meridian Two will provide 250 affordable homes with workspace on the lower floors to bring makers and creators to the area. Peter George says: “This is an important phase of the programme. It is a deliberate signal of intent to the council’s commitment to affordable housing. We have been asking partners to deliver this for 100% affordable housing, half of that would be for GLA London Affordable Rent and half of that for Intermediate Affordable Housing, potentially shared ownership of London Living Rent. We anticipate that the commercial spaces on the ground floor will be rented to SME businesses rather than multinationals.”
Meridian Water Phase Two
Outline plans for 2,300 homes were submitted for the second phase of the
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2019 August Planning application for 2,300 homes on Meridian Water Phase Two submitted. If granted, the site “will provide thousands of new homes and first class infrastructure.” – Cllr Nesil Caliskan September Planning application submitted for a makerspace hub to provide affordable workspace for hundreds of workers. The application for this affordable manufacturing workspace “will fire the starting pistol on the building of a truly remarkable facility.” – Al Parra from key workspace development partner, Building BloQs
Another focus of the Meridian Water project is on green spaces and Brooks Park, an ecological river landscape and parkland, will be created at the site.
Meridian Water scheme in August 2019. Masterplanned by Karakusevic Carson Architects, if granted planning permission, the phase will include a thriving commercial, retail and social space along the river. The eastern bank of Pymmes Brook would be naturalised to create Brooks Park, an ecological river landscape and riverside parkland. The project team also has Periscope Studio, working on the landscaping, along with Arup. George explains: “Working with multiple partners is the only way we can deliver a project of this scale, particularly as we want to deliver at speed. Enfield Council will be working with a range of partners and we’re working closely with developers and housing associations. “We’ll also consider working with building contractors. Community cohesion is an absolute priority for us and one of the ways to achieve this is through designing and organising
the site to be inclusive. This involves thinking of affordability, from the price of a cup of coffee, all the way up to making sure the homes are affordable as well.” George adds: “We’re looking for a successful integration of work space with affordable housing as well as key worker homes, affordable rents and social housing to benefit people in Enfield. We want as many, if not all, of the homes to benefit people living or working in the borough.” Cary says: “Many of the homes across the development will be suitable for those with disabilities. We have actively engaged with all stakeholders in the design process which is really important to enable us to provide homes that really work for people that need particular provision. It also allows individuals to stay independent for longer and that’s a long-term benefit to the council and to the borough.”
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September Additional two trains per hour serving Meridian Water station, seven days a week.
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ON THE RIGHT TRACK
London’s newest station, Meridian Water, is expected to cater for up to four million service users a year and is at the heart of the £6 billion development led by Enfield Council. Nominated for the Institution of Civil Engineers London People’s Choice Award, the £46 million station is part of the Lee Valley Rail Programme which will provide an enhanced service for passengers to Liverpool Street. Jane Thynne speaks to Meridian Water programme director Peter George to find out more. When did the idea of closing Angel Road station and opening a new one at Meridian Water first come about? The original masterplan suggested benefits of moving Angel Road station to the south side of the North Circular (by extending the existing station’s platforms south). However in 2015, the revised masterplan proposed replacing the old, inaccessible and infrequently used
Angel Road station with a brand new, modern, fully accessible station in the heart of the Meridian Water scheme. Meridian Water Station features a very striking design. What was the thinking behind the concept? The decision hinged on providing both access to the trains and a generous public route across the railway lines. Combining these functions into a
“Good connectivity is a key driver for inward investment and Meridian Water will provide this”
single bridge structure, with stepped and step-free access, provides a public connection between the east and west of the Meridian Water development. In order to create a station with a strong, high quality civic presence, the concourse roof canopy and public lift shafts were enhanced to act as powerful visual beacons. The beautiful folded golden soffit to the concourse ‘floats’ above the station creating visual drama and is uplit at night to illuminate the station. The public lift enclosures, clad in the same dark brick as the main station, are extended vertically to create ‘campanile’ towers. These are inset at high level with the same folded golden panels as the concourse soffit, to provide recognisable wayfinding beacons within the wider public realm. The station has been designed with ‘passive provision’ allowing for a fourth platform, meaning it can accommodate an additional track when Crossrail 2 arrives, without the existing station having to undergo extensive reworking. What benefits will Meridian Water Station bring to both rail users and the wider community? The main benefits will be the new station with modern facilities and an enhanced train service providing greater capacity and frequency. It will also help to create a new urban neighbourhood and fulfil housing targets - provision of a high-frequency rail service is key to facilitating the full extent of regeneration proposed at
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2021 First 725 homes delivered following completion of first phase of Meridian One.
2024 New roads, environmental improvements and a high-frequency rail service set to be delivered.
Do you think the station will help attract new business to the area? Yes. Good connectivity is a key driver for inward investment and Meridian Water station will provide this both for residents and businesses in the local area. We already have major organisations in the area such as Building BloQs and are receiving lots of enquiries from new businesses looking to relocate.
Meridian Water, including the delivery of 10,000 new homes. Economic growth will come through making Meridian Water more accessible and better connected to other parts of London and the reduction of average journey times. There are positive environmental outcomes too. The project will make public transport a viable and competitive option, thereby encouraging Edmonton and future Meridian Water residents to adopt sustainable travel behaviours.
Meridian Water Station was certainly put to good use during Enfield’s recent Field Day festival, when thousands of revellers arrived by train. Were you pleased it was able to play such a part in the day’s success? We were very pleased. On the day of the event, we achieved four trains per hour, which aligns with the ambition of six to eight trains per hour. The station put Meridian Water firmly on the map, and the Field Day event helped enhance this, with people from all over the UK and overseas using the station.
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A new headquarters for global communications software company Metaswitch is under construction in the heart of Enfield Town, thanks to help from Enfield Council identifying a prime location for new premises. Noella Pio Kivlehan explores how this deal came to fruition, what Metaswitch brings to the area, and how Enfield Town and the borough’s other centres are being boosted through investment.
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he decision by Metaswitch to consolidate its three Enfield offices into one single building marked a pivotal moment in the software company’s growth. More than that it also marked an important sea change in strategy and thinking for Enfield Council. For the first time in recent history the council has become developer and landlord by providing a town centre site
and constructing a state of the art, ecofriendly building that it will then rent to Metaswitch. It is a win-win scenario for both. Metaswitch gets a new HQ allowing it to stay in its beloved Enfield, where the company has been based since 1981. The council gets to keep Metaswitch – one of Enfield’s biggest employers – and its 350 employees that add to the town’s local economy. Meanwhile, rent
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generated on property will provide an income for the local authority to be fed back into local services. “This is a new bold step,” says Mark Bradbury, Enfield Council’s director of property and economy. “It’s a symbol of the council’s proactive attitude to the local economy, and was a positive intervention by the council to sit down with Metaswitch and say, ‘what if we could build you a HQ?’”
Global software company Metaswitch is getting a new ecofriendly building for its HQ in the centre of Enfield Town to combine its three existing offices.
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On the back of this move the council is set to engage in more dialogue with Enfield companies of all sizes, but particularly larger businesses, about their future needs. Metaswitch’s new 5,500sq m yet to be named HQ on Genotin Road, which is due to be completed by the end of 2020, is only one of several initiatives the council is bringing forward in its quest to connect and engage with the
community and businesses to improve the borough overall. As part of the development of Town Centre Action Plans, council leader Nesil Caliskan has started a series of borough-wide town centre tours meeting residents and businesses to understand what they want from their town centres. In March 2019, Enfield Town was awarded a multimillion-pound grant
from the Liveable Neighbourhoods Programme, while Enfield’s biggest leaseholders and landlords are working with the council to invest in town centres. It was back in 2016, when Metaswitch realised it needed to consolidate three separate offices in three separate buildings into one. Having launched the company with 30 employees, there are now 350 people in Enfield with a worldwide count of
Town Centre Action Plans will be created following town tours where Enfield Council leader, Councillor Nesil Caliskan, met with residents and businesses.
850. “When we move into our new building, we will be nearer 400 people, and the building we are moving into is capable of taking us up to 500.” Given the majority of its UK workforce - 200 - live in Enfield, Derek Brooker, Metaswitch’s company accountant, says its employees wanted to stay in the town. Added to this is Enfield’s location - 45 minutes to Heathrow and, says Brooker, “close enough to London for our employees to enjoy the benefits of the greatest city in the world”. When the council approached the company offering the Genotin Road car park site, it was a no-brainer for Metaswitch. “The council made [Genotin Road] available. It wanted to fund [the development], be the landlord, and for us to become their tenant, which is very innovative for a council. We were
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extremely impressed by that.” And Brooker is keen to add no incentives were given. He said: “We wouldn’t have expected the council to do so.” In a sense Genotin Road will be a show home for what the council can do for businesses. Bradbury adds: “We can now go out and market ourselves as an office location and if businesses are looking for purpose-built office accommodation, we could be proactive in delivering it. “We don’t have a large number of sites in Enfield Town Centre currently, but that doesn’t mean we couldn’t go out and assemble one.” More than providing office space, Enfield needs to be a place people want to live and visit as well as work. “We recruit people to come and work here, so it’s important they like it, and think, ‘this is a nice town, with good shops and restaurants’,” says Brooker. Invigorating and diversifying Enfield’s town centres is a goal for the council, and part of the large-scale regeneration plans is the Liveable Neighbourhood programme. Back in March 2019 the council received a £6 million slice of the Mayor’s and Transport for London’s Liveable Neighbourhoods programme for Enfield Town. Part of the Healthy Streets Approach, the programme was created to encourage Londoners to walk, cycle and use public transport. Heading it up is Richard Eason, the Enfield Town Liveable Neighbourhood project director, and the Healthy Streets programme director. Launching the programmes ‘visioning exercise’, Eason says: “This is an opportunity for residents, local businesses, and stakeholders - to
Councillor Nesil Caliskan, and Mark Bradbury, Enfield Council’s director of property and economy, meet members of the public (right).
The council is set to engage in more dialogue with Enfield companies of all sizes about their future needs start the conversation about the town centre to help shape the public realm improvements that this investment can deliver.” Running from mid-September to mid-October 2019, results of the visioning exercise will be reviewed towards the end of the year. Then the council will go back to the community with some more specific proposals to achieve the ultimate goal of encouraging more people to visit Enfield town centre, to stay longer and
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spend more while there. A major focus will be on public realm improvements, building upon the existing character and heritage of the town centre. Another census is being held faceto-face by Cllr Caliskan, who kicked off a series of town centre tours in July 2019 starting in Palmers Green. The tours are about generating the community-led action plans for reinvigorating the high streets, for growth and sustainability. This will be done through meeting
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In June 2019 Palmers Green Action Group (PGAT) organised a town centre clean-up with schoolchildren and volunteers after receiving government funding for the project.
“Rather than asking people to come to us, we are going to them“ the public and businesses to help develop a vision unique to each town centre. Plans will then be created to help with the strategic growth and resilience of each area. Bradbury explains: “[The tours] are a priority for the leader. We want these action plans to be led by the community. Rather than asking people to come to us, we are going out and talking to them. “As well as the more strategic projects we want to identify the bread and butter stuff that we can get on with quickly. If you can’t show you can sort the simple things, how can anybody trust you are going to take on anything more challenging, or imaginative?”
Locally there is a groundswell of determination from community groups in the area such as Palmers Green Action Team (PGAT). Set up in January 2019, the team “wants to matchmake landlords with potential tenants, and we are opening up conversations and people are following those threads,” says Liz Robinson, local resident and one of nine PGAT committee members. Another part of PGAT actions on the retail high street, was an organised mass clean-up in June 2019 involving schoolchildren and volunteers. The team was awarded funding from a £58,000 pot allocated to Enfield
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Council by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) from the Town Centres Clean Up Project Fund. Other active local groups include the Fox Lane Resident’s Association, Enfield Town Traders Association and Green Lanes Business Association – which held a shopping festival in June 2019 highlighting the diverse and vibrant businesses along the Green Lanes high street area. Previously, these local groups had often been working in isolation. Bradbury adds: “With the leader’s tours, and co-ordinated events there has been more interaction between individual community groups and also the council.” Robinson agrees that groups do operate individually but says: “We have communication and help promote other groups activities, so they don’t clash. We have really good relationships, as we all have the same goal.” From the larger development community, a spotlight for town centre revival has fallen on Edmonton Green. When developer Crosstree bought the Edmonton Green shopping centre for £72 million in November 2018 it pledged to help regenerate the town centre. At the time of the purchase, Crosstree director Matt Mason said: “We are committed to the long-term future of Edmonton Green and look forward to working with the council and local community to support the growth and prosperity of this strategically important site within Enfield.” Bradbury says the council has a very positive dialogue with Crosstree, and also with Deutche Bank, the head leaseholder of the main shopping centres in Enfield. “We are working in partnership with others and looking beyond the boundary of their development to understand how town centres as a whole are going to work and how their part is going to contribute, rather than being inward focused.” He adds: “Whether it’s the businesses, development partners, local communities, it’s about a long-term dialogue that builds trust, meaning things happen.” And there is no doubt, things are certainly happening today, and into the future for Enfield.
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Enfield has been named 2019 Council of the Year in the prestigious Greater London Regional Energy Efficiency Awards. Kirsty MacAulay takes a look at how the borough has become a green trendsetter and its aims to help residents reduce energy bills and tackle fuel poverty.
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s it becomes increasingly clear that climate change is a global issue that needs to be solved, Enfield Council is leading the charge in London tackling the problems head on. It proved its credentials by winning Council of the Year in June 2019 at the Greater London Regional Energy Efficiency Awards. Setting the bar high, in July 2019 the council declared a climate state of
emergency and pledged to be a carbon neutral authority by 2030, or sooner. Having already reduced its carbon footprint by 45% between 2008 and 2017, it has set an even tougher new target to reduce carbon emissions by a further 60% by 2025. Other aims include educating residents and future generations on the need for change, improving air quality, eliminating the council’s holdings in
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(Above) The Solar Together London scheme helps residents install solar panels as a group at affordable rates. (Top right) The climate emergency declaration is signed and (right) taking a tour of energy company energetik.
fossil fuel companies, looking at cutting greenhouse gas emissions in the council and its supply chain, and updating the council’s sustainability plan. Enfield Council’s leader, Councillor Nesil Caliskan, explains: “We are utterly committed to tackling the issues around climate change and the environment. “Excellent campaigns led by grassroots organisations has brought attention to the desperate need for us all
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to redouble our efforts and make Enfield genuinely carbon neutral as soon as we possibly can. “We owe to generations yet to come to make sure that the madness in carrying on engaging in activities that are destroying our planet is brought to a halt. That is why Enfield Council is declaring this ‘Climate Emergency’ and through its recently formed Climate Change Task Force the local authority will bring all its influence to bear to ensure that Enfield plays its full part in stopping climate change and putting an end to the destruction of our planet.” Enfield has already shown itself to be ahead of the curve, setting up its environmentally friendly energy company energetik in 2015. The community heat network it runs in the borough currently provides very efficient, low carbon, combined heat and power to 15,000 homes and businesses with plans to create a further heat network at Meridian Water using waste heat from North London Waste Authority. The heat network has played a major role in helping Enfield tackle fuel poverty as energy bills are lower due to tenants only paying for the heat they actually use. Energetik also delivers wider benefits to the community through improved air quality and
reduced carbon emissions. The company’s business plan is forecast to save 250,000 tonnes of carbon - the equivalent of planting 126 million trees - and 70,000 kg of nitrous oxide over 40 years. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was commissioned to consider the strategic importance of the network and the resulting forecast showed up to £225 million of non-financial benefit could be delivered over a 40-year period. Other benefits included the strategic
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advantages of delivering a councilowned heat company to underpin the council’s regeneration ambitions, the ability to provide cleaner air and the benefits of providing state of the art smart metering to customers. According to energetik’s managing director Jayne Clare: “A lot of councils are now looking to include district heating in new schemes as a result of the London Plan and the Mayor’s Energy Efficiency Fund. The beauty of being council-owned means we can
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help council planners to know if it is commercially viable to connect new schemes to existing heat networks.” Most importantly Enfield is enabling residents to adopt a cheaper and more environmentally friendly heating option. It is this work towards tackling fuel poverty and carbon emissions that won it the Council of the Year award. However, Enfield’s proenvironmental ethos covers a broad range of projects aimed at making the borough a better place to live and work, from food recycling bins and mass tree planting – including a brand-new wood on Montagu Recreation Ground – to the development of electric vehicle charging points and cycle schemes. One such project is the Enfield Healthy Streets programme, which aims to increase the number of journeys that people either walk, cycle or use public transport for. Richard Eason, Healthy Streets programme director, says: “We’re making changes to our streets so that walking, cycling and public transport becomes the obvious choice. We’re then challenging people to think about how they travel. The car can
Learning about the council’s energy firm energetik (right) and Councillor Guney Dogan leads a bike ride with council staff to promote new dockless bikes (below).
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The Meridian Water train station (below) opened in June 2019 marking a crucial step in the £6 billion flagship scheme providing necessary transport connections.
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Enfield Council’s successful bid for £156 million from the Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund marks a major step for the massive Meridian Water development. The money will be used to provide new roads, parks and bridges, a higher frequency rail service by 2023 to the new Meridian Water train station which opened in June 2019 - and a range of environmental improvements. These will include construction of an east-west boulevard for pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles from the station through the middle of the site into the Lee Valley Park and beyond, together with two new parks, cycle lanes, brooks
and additional bridges. The rail service will be improved to give up to eight trains an hour at Meridian Water at peak times, with a fourth platform and new section of track to Tottenham Hale. Council leader, Councillor Nesil Caliskan, said: “Enfield Council has invested more than £250 million of its own money to drive this project forward. Meridian Water is now not only back on track but is gathering pace with delivery being accelerated, a new Meridian Water station open and massive infrastructure improvements on the way.” Cllr Caliskan said Meridian Water already enjoyed a waterside
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lanes, bridges, improved rail frequencies and utility services. The council has submitted a planning application for Phase Two of Meridian Water with up to 2,300 homes and a new park. A second application sets out the details of the strategic infrastructure concerned. Among the planning proposals made are that at least 40% of the homes provided will be affordable, and an option to include purpose-built student accommodation or large-scale purposebuilt shared living accommodation and a hotel. There will also be commercial, office, retail and social infrastructure along the river front, and a new threeform entry primary school. Part of the eastern bank of Pymmes Brook would become an ecological river landscape, and provide riverside parkland. Cllr Caliskan said: “Our proposals for Phase Two of Meridian Water will, if granted planning permission, provide thousands of homes and first-class infrastructure. It will play a significant part in the council’s plans to provide thousands of new homes and jobs on the site which local residents will be the primary beneficiary of.” The search has also started for a developer for Meridian Two at Leeside Road, which is the second stage of Phase One and will deliver 250 affordable homes with workspace on the lower floors to bring
makers and creators to the area. The first stage of Phase One, known as Meridian One, is already in progress with enabling work ongoing since 2017 and Vistry Partnerships (formerly known as Galliford Try Partnerships) having been named as development partner for the 725 homes near to the new station. Stephen Teagle is chief executive of Vistry Partnerships. He said: “We’re delighted to have been selected to work in close partnership with Enfield Council and the local communities on the delivery of Meridian One as a new vibrant mixeduse, mixed tenure neighbourhood. “We will create an environment for local people to thrive – providing quality affordable homes, opportunities for local start-up businesses to flourish, great public spaces and a design which celebrates the parkland character of the Lee Valley. This is a great opportunity to demonstrate responsible and accountable regeneration through a responsible, accountable partnership.” The new station has replaced Angel Road and will serve up to four million rail passengers a year. It was delivered by Network Rail and contractor, VolkerFitzpatrick. The further upgrades planned to the line from Stratford to Meridian Water will include 5.5km of new track to enable two more trains
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The first phase of this £50 million development of two hectares at Ponders End High Street with Lovell Partnerships has delivered 40 familysized houses and 21 affordable flats for social rent. The first new tenants moved into their affordable homes in January 2019. There is a communal play area on top of the new apartments, all of which are highly energy efficient with heat and hot water provided by energetik, the council’s wholly owned energy firm. The second phase of the scheme, which is underway with the first completions in 2020, will deliver a further 106 new homes for sale and for rent together with a nursery, a new community library, as well as commercial units.
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Communication software firm Metaswitch gained planning consent in 2018 for a 5,111sq m office headquarters for its business on the Genotin Road car park site. This will enable it to consolidate staff from its three existing buildings in the town centre. The new headquarters will accommodate 500 staff across five floors arranged around a top-lit full height atrium. Architect BDP has designed the building and construction is due for completion by spring 2020. A range of sustainable design elements mean it will achieve BREEAM ‘excellent’ standard. Enfield Council has funded the project on commercial terms with a lease of 15 years granted to Metaswitch. There will also be parking for 96 cars, and under a dual use agreement this will be available for public use outside office hours to support the local economy. Completion is expected in late 2020.
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Regeneration of the Alma Estate in Ponders End is being delivered by a partnership between the council and developer Countryside Properties. Construction of phase one which will provide 228 new homes is well underway. This phase includes 97 council homes which are expected to be delivered by February 2020. In all, the regeneration will see 993 new homes built, alongside shops, a gym, medical centre and community facilities. The development will include a mix of homes for private sale, shared ownership and council homes for rent. Phase 2A is also underway and will
deliver 340 homes, new shops, a youth centre and community centre. The next phase will also include a health centre and an energy centre, which will provide heat and hot water for the entire new development connected to the Ponders End heat network, with low carbon heating and hot water supplied by the council’s energy company energetik. A consultation is currently being undertaken as part of the planning application process to increase the number of affordable homes on the development and increase the total number of homes to 1086.
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Full demolition and clearance of the Trent Park site (below) is finished and construction work by Berkeley Homes has started on the first phase of homes.
Trent Park The transformation of Trent Park from a former Middlesex University site to a new residential development continues with developer Berkeley Homes forging ahead with the first phase of new homes at the site. Full demolition and clearance of previous structures at the site has finished, and installation has started on a new sustainable drainage system on the east side of North Lawn. The historical landscaped areas at the Grade II listed mansion have been sensitively prepared for new tree planting and soft landscaping to bring it back to its original historical beauty.
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New Avenue in Cockfosters will see redevelopment to provide 408 new homes, 140 of which will be affordable, a multi-purpose nursery and community hall, community amenity space and parking spaces. Countryside are the council’s development partner and construction of phase one is already well advanced with the first private sale units already sold and occupied with the remainder of this first phase which comprises 127 new homes including 53 affordable homes due for completion in early 2020. Following consultation with planners and the local community a second planning application is currently being designed by the developer’s architect HTA, which seeks to increase the number of units on phases two and three by 97 including 30 extra affordable homes potentially bringing the total on the site to 505 homes including 170 affordable homes.
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Henry Boot Developments and Enfield Council are working in partnership to redevelop the estate while providing accommodation for existing companies, and attracting new ones. This will transform the industrial estate into a modern business estate, with more than 46,450sq m of business space to be rebranded as EN406. The site will become more easily accessible and will be redeveloped in four phases. A planning application has been approved for a first phase comprising of eight units for general industrial, storage or distribution use totalling 4,773sq m with a start on site planned for spring 2020.
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The Beaverworld development of a combined brewery and visitor centre is under construction adjacent to the River Lea Navigation in Ponders End, and owner Logan Plant has said that plans are on track for opening in March 2020. Movement from the existing brewery near Tottenham Hale is scheduled to begin in January 2020 ahead of the first brewing day planned for March. The main site is 2.3 hectares, and the Beavertown warehouse will have 12,077sq m of internal space, within which there will be 1,114sq m for a visitor centre and 743sq m for offices, a kitchen and staff facilities. The 557sq m of external space that looks onto the river will become an outside drinking and eating space that can also be used for performances. Beavertown may also host a regular local produce market. Its brewery is intended to have a capacity of 500,000 hectolitres a year - equivalent to some 88 million pints of beer. Plant says: “I want to make the visitor centre the best brewery experience in the UK – and that’s the word, experience – not just a taproom. As soon as you walk in you’ll be hit with a sensory overload, you’ll be immersed, distorted and primed for the best beer experience of your life.”
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Creating sufficient affordable homes is one of the biggest challenges councils across the country are facing in the current ‘housing crisis’. Suruchi Sharma takes a look at some of the ways Enfield is finding the right solutions. OpEn
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management of places are vital. When we’re creating new estates promoting healthy living and the environment at the same time is really important. We have in-house design and architectural expertise looking at how we can make schemes the best they possibly can be. This is one of the benefits of the council taking control over development delivery – as we have the long-term stake in how the borough grows.” Enfield Council is taking views from first-time buyers, letting agents, housing providers, private landlords and those seeking to downsize for a housing consultation to contribute to two major strategies. This includes the ten-year Housing and Growth Strategy and five-year Preventing Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy. The first strategy will reach full council in 2020, while a Homelessness Prevention Partnership board for the second strategy will be launched to deliver an action plan. The ambition is simple but effective – to increase the housing supply that considers residents
on different incomes and that have varying circumstances. Drew explains: “A major concern for many is affordability, so we have built in an affordability test as part of our plan. We want every resident in the borough that is in different types of housing tenure to contribute to the consultation, as they see the world from different perspectives. “Our focus is on meeting the needs of existing residents first and foremost to give them opportunities for the housing growth we have in the borough. That is a key driver for our housing growth strategy.” The authority has committed to delivering 3,500 new council homes across Enfield over the next decade, along with 10,000 new homes at the flagship Meridian Water regeneration project over the next 25 years. The key message from both the council and Naked House to create genuinely affordable homes is echoed by developer Vistry Partnerships (formerly Galliford Try Partnerships) working on the first
Developer Naked House’s pilot project in Enfield will have stripped back homes for sale at affordable rates that are minimalist but habitable homes.
Drew, the council’s director of housing and regeneration, says the focus is on maximising affordable housing delivery and unlocking development sites, and giving attention to both large developments such as Meridian Water as well as smaller schemes. She says: “We have such housing pressures that we need more housing of every type. This includes later living schemes for people and those who are perhaps under-occupying owned homes in the private sector. We also need family accommodation, as it is easy for schemes to include one-bed flats in the mix, but we do try and encourage larger size units. “Good design, maintenance and
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Award-winning homes created in Ordnance Road (above) in 2018 in Enfield Lock provided a mix of houses and bungalows available to renters at an affordable rate.
“We are really excited to be building what will be some of the most affordable homes in Enfield” phase of Meridian Water to create 725 new homes. Regeneration director at Vistry Partnerships, Nick Hodgson, says: “A major element of the projects we undertake involves working in partnerships with local authorities and housing associations across the country. This includes a number of major schemes in London including Meridian Water with Enfield Council. “Given the partners we work with, a significant proportion of the projects we deliver incorporate high proportions of affordable housing. “Working with numerous public sector partners over the years we understand the importance of getting balanced communities and meeting the needs of those most in need of
affordable housing by delivering a mix of housing tenures.” With Meridian Two in the pipeline that will offer 100% affordable housing in the first phase with 250 new affordable homes, and a build-to-rent scheme where Transport for London and residential landlord Grainger intend to create hundreds of homes near Cockfosters and Arnos Grove tube stations – with a minimum of 40% affordable homes – the future affordable housing options will certainly increase for Enfield residents. Another option comes with Naked House’s intention to provide homes at around 65 to 70% of the full market price by offering minimalist but habitable homes with heating, electricity and a basic bathroom allowing purchasers to add more over time as their budget allows. Enfield Council approved the sale of council-owned sites in May 2019 that will be used for the firm’s pilot project to build 22 affordable homes in the borough, with building due to be completed in 2020. In 2019 council leader, Councillor Nesil Caliskan, said: “This scheme is a good example of how Enfield Council is now proactive in trying to address
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major issues such as housing,” and added the project plays a “small but important role in providing family housing in Enfield”. Chouffot says: “One of the principles that is most important to us at Naked House is ensuring the homes are genuinely affordable for Enfield residents, and we calculate that by taking local incomes and ensuring on a monthly basis the cost of the mortgage is genuinely affordable. We are really excited to be building what will be some of the most affordable homes in Enfield. “The sites at the moment are brownfield, unused sites and we will be re-purposing them for the local community, and Enfield residents will be given priority to purchase the homes. Just as importantly the discounts will remain there in perpetuity so they will continue to be affordable homes and keep on serving the local communities for generations to come.” Naked House has partnered up with OMMX Architects to create the plans for the scheme. Chouffot adds: “People can decide on the layouts whether they want to keep it open plan or partition into bedrooms. “They can choose their kitchen fittings themselves and perhaps later extend into the garden. It’s a really demanding brief for the architects to have to think about not only the initial use, but also the way it could be used in the future also. They came up with a really creative solution to our principle point of design, which is to have a home that’s both expandable and adaptable. “It works on day one when people move in but it also works in year five, when say a couple might have a baby or someone may want to start a business from home. The concept works wherever housing is unaffordable and where people want to get stuck in, and we very much hope to roll it out in London and beyond.” The project is part-funded by the Greater London Authority, and is an appealing solution for generation rent offering a chance to get on the property ladder, while also tapping into important DIY skills. Chouffot said it was “great” to be backed by the Mayor of London, but crucially “brilliant to also be supported by Enfield Council, as it has been prepared to try something innovative with the sites”.
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Opportunity Enfield Issue 11
The Regeneration of Enfield
Meridian time Major Enfield scheme boldly marches forward to reach new levels Energy efficient Inspiring new ideas and crucial promises made to tackle climate change
WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ENFIELD TO CREATE PLACES PEOPLE LOVE
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