Enfield Chase Landscape Recovery & Nature-Led Planning Framework

Client: London Borough of Enfield, DEFRA /Environment Agency, Thames21/Rivers Trust

Enfield Chase, London Borough of Enfield (North London / London–Hertfordshire Green Belt fringe)

Executive summary from entrant:

Enfield Chase Landscape Recovery & Nature-Led Planning demonstrates how professional plan-making can drive landscape-scale environmental restoration while responding to metropolitan growth pressures. Embedded within the Enfield Local Plan, the Council is aligning a DEFRA-backed Landscape Recovery Scheme across over 1,000 hectares of Green Belt to deliver biodiversity recovery, natural flood management, climate resilience and public access. This strategic approach moves beyond site mitigation, integrating nature recovery into spatial strategy and aligning with the London Local Nature Recovery Strategy. It shows how planning can transform environmental constraint into opportunity enabling sustainable growth while securing long-term ecological and community benefit.