Southgate Master Planning Vision

Enfield Council's Journeys and Places team is working with East Architecture to develop a strategic master planning vision for Southgate Town Centre. The master planning vision seeks to address the issues and opportunities identified in the Town Centre Action Plan (published in 2022). We will be engaging the local community across various community events.

The vision will capture a cohesive strategy of place and transport interventions to re-imagine the everyday experience of Southgate, a Town Centre where visitors are welcomed to enjoy a greener and more attractive public realm, local businesses and communities are involved in programming a diverse and accessible cultural and community offer, and local stakeholders are involved in the stewardship of the area.

The vision, developed in collaboration with the local community, will be presented in March 2025. Future interventions, to progress with the phased delivery of the masterplan, will be implemented in consultation with Cabinet Members, and subject to statutory consultation over the coming years as funding becomes available. More information about the upcoming engagement with the community to develop the master planning vision for Southgate will be shared with residents and on this page in the coming months.

Priorities

The master planning vision for Southgate Town Centre will focus on the following priorities:

Everyday experience

Re-imaging the everyday experience of the Town Centre is essential to a successful and vibrant Southgate, where an enhanced public realm design provides safe, welcoming and equitable spaces.

Healthy Streets

The masterplan will deliver measurable improvements to the Healthy Streets indicators, making Southgate healthier and more accessible to pedestrians from all walks of life and encourage them to walk, cycle and use public transport

Southgate’s identity

The new vision will help re-build Southgate’s image as a welcoming, green and vibrant Town Centre whilst maintaining its strong links to the station, the town’s heritage and past

Community-led

This vision is an opportunity to invite the local community into a collective journey to shape the future of Southgate and encourage long-term stewardship.

Culture Place

The Town Centre vision will explore the delivery of a “Culture Place” for Southgate integrated into the public realm improvement, to provide activities that focus on local culture, learning and wellbeing that are open to all.

Community engagement

We have set out a strategy for meaningful community engagement which will include residents, community organisations, traders and businesses. We will explore opportunities to build on existing relationship with local groups and we will organise activities to reach community members who haven't been involved in previous engagement sessions.

These events will be an opportunity for the whole range of community groups in Southgate to feed into and collaborate with our team in order to identify and raise what changes they would like to see in the town centre to improve the public realm and enhance the everyday experience.

Details on community engagement activities can be found on this page as well as on the "Southgate Communications, engagement and consultation plan" located on the right column on the main page.

Delivery

Southgate master planning vision will be published in March ’25 as a bid-ready document to allow the Journeys and Places team to apply for external grant funding for the incremental delivery of selected interventions within the masterplan.

Should you have any general queries about the upcoming works or about the projects, please email contact the Journeys and Places team at JourneysandPlaces@enfield.gov.uk

For more information on the projects taking place in Southgate Town Centre, please visit the project page at: https://letstalk.enfield.gov.uk/southgate