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Northern Gateway Access Package (NGAP) Proposed by London Borough of Enfield
Meeting: 07/11/2012 - Planning Services Scrutiny Panel (Item 15)
15 Northern Gateway Access Package (NGAP) Proposed by London Borough of Enfield PDF 735 KB
(Director of Planning and Economic Development) To consider the attached report.
Additional documents:
- NGAR - epf-1277-96 - Decision by Secretary of State, item 15 PDF 576 KB
- NGAR doc 2, item 15 PDF 11 MB
Minutes:
The Panel received a report from the Director of Planning and Economic Development regarding the Northern Gateway Access Package (NGAP) proposed by London Borough of Enfield within its consultation on the North East Enfield Area Action Plan.
The Northern Gateway Access Package was included within a consultation by London Borough of Enfield (LBE), the package included a scheme which was previously called the Northern Gateway Access Road (NGAR), and had been considered at a major public inquiry ten years ago, where it was rejected.
LBE had aspired to a direct or indirect route using the North South Road (A1055) Mollison Avenue to the M25 for many years. The North South Road served many employment sites and activities within the northern part of Enfield and allowed access to a variety of residential communities. It passed through a residential area around Bullsmoor Lane before the lane met with the A10 south of Junction 25 of the M25. The A1055 was mostly a single carriageway in the same direction. There was also a rather limited and complex access from a continuation of the North South Road where it met the North Circular Road A406. The A1055 continued south serving mainly employment areas to the east just to the north of the North Circular Road, but also served employment areas running down to Tottenham Hale.
The case for NGAR was that existing congestion held back economic development across a large area of London. For economic reasons, a new route for traffic to get into and out of this part of London could be achieved by utilising the A121 to the south of Waltham Abbey to achieve access and egress at Junction 26 of the M25 rather than only at Junction 25.
The North East Enfield Area Action Plan
The document was currently at consultation stage with the closing date for comments being 8 November 2012. It was advised that the document contained many proposals of merit, for example in seeking to improve the public realm around many shopping parades or centres, or increasing the green links between the area covered by the plan and adjacent areas including those within Epping Forest district.
The Director of Planning and Economic Development felt that NGAR was a fundamentally flawed proposal and it was not understood how these flaws could be resolved, for example:
(a) The proposal was still within the Green Belt,
(b) The proposal was still within the Regional Park,
(c) There was no new traffic model to overcome all the previous points; and
(d) The proposal would still disgorge Enfield traffic into parts of Waltham Abbey before that traffic could reach the M25 at Junction 26.
Its basic purpose was unchanged, and its disadvantages were not overcome with the passage of time.
It was advised that:
(i) There was no recognition within the consultation that the junction of the continuation of the North South Road where it met the A406 North Circular, lying in a very built up area, might be capable of ... view the full minutes text for item 15