New Enfield Local Plan

Enfield Local Plan (Regulation 24) 2024 – Examination in Public

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21 November – The Inspector has published his initial ‘Stage 1’ Matters, Issues and Questions (IN2) (PDF, 213.95 KB). This includes a covering letter and three appendices. Appendix 1 sets out the MIQs for the initial matters the Inspector wishes to discuss, Appendix 2 provides guidance on producing written statements, Appendix 3 provides a draft hearing programme (which may be subject to change – a final programme for stage 1 will be published once it is clear who wishes to attend and written statements have been received). The hearings are due to start of Wednesday 22 January 2025. Details of the venue and relevant deadlines are included in the letter. The Inspector has also published a separate Guidance Note (IN3) (PDF, 203.65 KB) setting out more detail about his role and how the examination will progress from this point. Representors are asked to familiarise themselves with the guidance notes, and links to useful information set out within them.

1 November – The council has further responded to the Inspector’s preliminary matters and questions. Read the councils response – E3 LBE response to IN1 (PDF, 293.81 KB) and E4 LBE response to IN1 PQ1c (PDF, 132.01 KB) and appendixes:

Alongside SUB12.1 Reg 22 (PDF, 8995.07 KB).

The council has also uploaded a corrected representation database.

24 October – The council has provided a further response to the Inspectors preliminary matters and questions. Read Enfield Council’s response to Inspector’s IN1 Document (PDF, 286.92 KB).

15 October – The council has added an update to their statement of common ground (PDF, 164.46 KB) with Sport England as SUB14b.

30 September – The council has provided their response to the Inspectors preliminary matters and questions. Read the council's response (DOCX, 44.97 KB).

As part of the response the council has updated the following: Duty to cooperate with statements of common ground PDF, 14782.33 KB.

And added the following - Infrastructure Delivery Plan (PDF, 2610 KB).

5 September – The Inspector has written to the council with his preliminary matters and questions (PDF, 274.58 KB).

The Enfield Local Plan documents were submitted to the Secretary of State for examination on Tuesday 6 August 2024.

Inspector S Lee BA(Hons) MA MRTPI has been appointed to hold an independent examination of the Enfield Local Plan.

Mrs Annette Feeney is the programme officer who is assisting the inspectors. All correspondence relating to the examination should be sent to the programme officer at:

Email: annette.feeney@enfield.gov.uk
Phone: 07775 771026

Correspondence and updates, relating to the examination, will be updated on the 'latest news' section and documents will be added to the document library below.

Information about the examination process can be found here. This page includes the Procedure Guide for Local Plan Examinations which provides detailed practical advice and a short guide aimed at people taking part in their first local plan examination.

Enfield Local Plan document library 2024

The Enfield Local Plan document library (PDF, 501.37 KB) consists of:

A. Core submission documents including the Duty to Cooperate Statement with Statements of Common Ground (PDF, 1651.03 KB)
B. Background evidence documents
C. Previous stages of the local plan process
D. Inspectors documents
E. Council responses to Inspector
F. Post submission documents

Enfield Local Plan

Enfield Council has reviewed the local plan which sets out the long term planning and land use policies for the area. Please see Statement of representation procedure (PDF, 168.67 KB).

Please note that the local plan was prepared and will be examined under the NPPF updated version published in December 2023.

The council will also be confirming a 5-year land supply of specific, deliverable sites at the time that its examination is concluded.

The Enfield Local Plan was submitted to the Secretary of State for independent examination on 6 August 2024 details can be found on the Submission Notice (PDF, 113.76 KB).

All examination information will be published on the examination page here to follow.

View the Regulation 19 Enfield Local Plan consultation responses individually, or a summary through the representation database (CSV, 12370.08 KB).

Enfield Local Plan – Regulation 19 consultation

Update: The Enfield Local Plan documents were submitted to the Secretary of State for examination on Tuesday 6 August 2024.

The Regulation 19 Consultation Period ran from Thursday 28 March to Monday 20 May 2024 and has now concluded. Thank you to those who responded.

The purpose of the Regulation 19 consultation is to provide an opportunity for representations to be made on the amendments to the local plan before it is examined by a planning inspector. In accordance with the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, the planning inspector will consider all comments on the plan that are made within the consultation period.

The council is currently processing Representations made at Regulation 19 Stage. All representations received during the representation period will be sent to the Planning Inspectorate together with the draft Local Plan and supporting documentation and will also be made publicly accessible as part of the examination.

Upon submission, the Planning Inspectorate will conduct an independent review of the plan and the representations made, to determine whether the plan is sound. This is called an Examination in Public.

Enfield Regulation 19 Local Plan documents

The emerging Enfield Local Plan was approved for publication for a minimum 6-week period of public consultation by Full Council on 19 March 2024. To review the details of the Full Council meeting and access the minutes, see the agenda for the Full Council meeting. The council has also prepared a summary leaflet of the local plan (PDF, 7109.38 KB).

Local plan and appendices, and policy map:

Statutory assessments

Supporting evidence base documents

You can view all of the supporting documents which form part of the evidence base used in the preparation of the ELP.

Minor editorial changes have been made to the pre-publication version that was released in December 2023. These modifications are outlined in the Minor amendments table (PDF, 551.27 KB).

You can inspect physical copies of the documents listed above and the Statement of Representations Procedure at the following locations and as well as all the community libraries in the borough:

Enfield Civic Centre, Silver Street, Enfield, EN1 3XA
Enfield Town Library, 66 Church Street, Enfield, EN2 6AX
Edmonton Green Library, 36-44 South Mall, Edmonton, N9 0TN
Ordnance Unity Centre Library, 645 Hertford Road Enfield, EN3 6ND
Palmers Green Library, Broomfield Lane, Palmers Green, N13 4EY

Where is the evidence base?

All of the evidence base documents are available for inspection on our evidence base page.

The Local Plan documents, Integrated Impact Assessment, Habitats Regulations Assessment and Equalities Impact Assessment are available to view above.

Local Plan preferred approaches consultation 2021

From June to September 2021 we consulted on the main issues and preferred approaches for the Local Plan. We also carried out a consultation to identify future development sites. This consultation was the first of two stages in the formal plan production process.

View the Main Issues and Preferred Options Local Plan (PDF, 15303.15 KB) and the draft Proposals Map (PDF, 14178.99 KB).

View the Statement on Regulation 18 Consultation (June to September 2021) (PDF, 3933.35 KB).

View the Regulation 18 draft Enfield Local Plan consultation responses.

Consultation on the Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) accompanying the Regulation 18: Enfield Local Plan Main Issues and Preferred Approaches also ran at the same time.

The IIA comprises Sustainability Appraisal (SA) incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Health Impact Assessment (HIA), Equalities Impact Assessment (EqIA), Community Safety Impact Assessment (CSIA) and Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA).

The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes regulations (2004) the National Planning Policy Framework requires that all development plan documents are subject to a sustainability appraisal.

The sustainability appraisal is needed to consider and communicate the key sustainability issues and effects of emerging policies and any reasonable alternatives. It runs alongside the development of a plan and informs the ongoing decision-making process. The document consulted on is a record of the appraisal work carried out to date.

View the IIA documents:

The timetable for the preparation of the Local Plan is set out in the Local Development Scheme.

Draft Local Plan errata - August 2021

Following approval, a number of omissions and typographic errors have been discovered in the draft Local Plan. These have been corrected. View the errata note (PDF, 914.22 KB).

Local Plan issues and options consultation 2018

From 5 December 2018 to 28 February 2019 we consulted on the issues and options for the Local Plan. We also carried out a consultation to identify future development sites. This consultation was the first of two stages in the formal plan production process.

View the Local Plan issues and options (PDF, 14523.9 KB) and the Local Plan issues and options summary and questionnaire (PDF, 2567.84 KB).

View the Enfield Regulation 18 - 2018/19 consultation statement (PDF, 652.36 KB)

View the representations from the consultation:

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This privacy notice was updated July 2021.

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Address: Civic Centre, Silver Street, London EN1 3XA
Phone Number: 020 8379 3866
Email: localplan@enfield.gov.uk

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The categories of the information that we collect, process, hold and share include name and contact details.

Your name and response will be made publicly available.

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