Meridian Water
Edmonton
N18
Official Website: http://www.meridianwater.co.uk
Partners: BNP Paribas | Atkins | LDA Design
Development Facts
Site area: 200 acres
Scope: 5000 new homes, 3000 new jobs
Masterplan for 5,000 home Meridian Water scheme alongside North London’s Lee Valley Regional Park inlcudes waterfront living
Plans for a £1.3bn regeneration development have been unveiled by Enfield council.
The masterplan for the 200 acre Meridian Water scheme alongside North London’s Lee Valley Regional Park was designed by LDA Design and was launched last week
The scheme comprises up to 5,000 new homes and includes waterfront living with open spaces, leisure facilities and a new high street that will offer community shopping, health facilities, a library, three schools and a technical college.
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Specialist designers have been appointed to help deliver the £1.5billion Meridian Water development in Edmonton.
CH2M Hill has been commissioned to prepare a detailed feasibility study and business case for phase one of the Meridian Water plans and subsequent improvements to the proposed Causeway, which will run through the development.
Meridian Water will provide 5,000 homes and 3,000 jobs in the borough.
Councillor Del Goddard, cabinet member for business and regeneration, said: “Meridian Water is a fantastic opportunity for us to regenerate a key site in this borough and the development of the Causeway is one of the most crucial aspects of this development.
“It will help create linked communities and bring the different aspects of the site together in an effective and attractive way, and help make sure all parts of the development are equally accessible.”
Enfield Council recently secured £74million to improve rail links to the development, which will deliver a four-train-an-hour service at Angel Road Station, soon to be renamed Meridian Water Station.
The first section to be remodelled will be Glover Drive, between Tesco and IKEA.
John McNicholas, regional business group manager of Urban Programmes, Europe, at CH2M HILL, said: “CH2M HILL’s Urban Environment Group was set up in 2011 with the purpose of helping clients to revitalise their neighbourhoods through the creation of interconnected, liveable, vibrant communities. This is the kind of neighbourhood that we look forward to creating for Enfield.”
Enfield Council will decide at its meeting on Wednesday (22 October) whether to forge ahead with the first phase of the £1.5 billion eco-development Meridian Water which will provide thousands of homes and jobs when completed.
The local authority’s cabinet will decide whether or not to agree the route of the development’s central causeway and give senior officers within the council the powers to drive forward the development of the scheme - one of the largest green developments in the United Kingdom.
Once completed Meridian Water will create up to 8,420 new homes, 3,000 new jobs, better public transport links and infrastructure including schools, shops and a police station. The central Causeway “Meridian Boulevard” is a high quality tree lined corridor which would act as the gateway into the heart of Meridian Water and will be demonstrate the council has moved from planning the project to delivery on the ground.
Provision of the causeway would open up land for development and help to bring forward the construction of 2,700 new home.
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Enfield Council has approved the first phase of a development that will provide 2,000 affordable and social homes.
The council approved the first stage of the £1.5bn eco-mixed-use development Meridien Water, which is part of the Lee Valley regeneration project, is expected to deliver 5,000 homes.
The first phase, Meridian Boulevard, will include 2,700 new homes in four and five storey blocks with construction due to start in April next year.
The development will include a £14m decentralised energy network, which could deliver heat to Meridian Water from 2015 onwards.
Enfield Council decided last week to forge ahead with the latest phase of our landmark £1.5 billion eco-development Meridian Water.
We are very excited about this scheme, which is one of the biggest green developments in the United Kingdom. It will create up to 8,420 new homes, 3,000 new jobs, better public transport links and infrastructure including schools, shops and a police station.
There is absolutely no doubt that Meridian Water will almost single-handedly drive the expansion of North London and provide a massive boost to the region.
A key part the scheme is the provision of a four train an hour service through the Lee Valley which was achieved by Enfield Council successfully lobbying transport chiefs and the Mayor of London.
Meridian Water demonstrates this council's commitment to residents - through the provision of thousands of good quality houses to ease demand and reduce prices - and business, by improving infrastructure and creating the conditions to enable them to thrive.
The next phase of Meridian Water will see work starting on the central causeway - Meridian Boulevard which will would open up land for development and help to bring forward the construction of 2,700 new homes.
The bottom line is that Enfield Council is forging ahead with a truly landmark scheme that will transform North London and create a vibrant waterside community in an unrivalled setting.
We are ready to unlock large scale housing developments on the site and start the transformation of the area from Glover Drive to the Lee Navigation, hopefully with construction starting next year.
Cllr Doug Taylor
Leader Enfield Council
Council bosses are calling for an architect to work on the next stage of plans for £1.5billion redevelopment.
Enfield Borough Council says the Meridian Water scheme will create up to 8,420 new homes, 3,000 new jobs, public transport links and infrastructure including schools, shops and a police station.
The local authority is now looking for an architect to take on the next level of designs.
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London’s Enfield Council has secured £80m funding to kick-start the first phase of the £1.5bn eco-mixed-use development Meridian Water.
The cash from the European Investment Bank will help the council also deliver several major other projects, including the Lee Valley Heat Network and Enfield’s schools expansion programme.
Meridian Water is a proposed location for one of the London Mayor’s innovative ‘Housing Zones.’ It will also be the largest development of residential and commercial tenants to connect to a district heat network making its a trail-blazer for city-scale heat networks.
In phases, the developments will deliver 5,000 homes, with the potential for this to rise to 8,000 homes at a later stage. Meridian Water will create 15 MW of heat demand, and the District Heating Energy Centre on the Eco Park is being designed to have a capacity of approximately 70 MW.
Tendering for a design, build and operate firm is well advanced with a winner set to be announced in September.
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Barratt & Segro confirmed for £3.5bn Meridian Water site
A joint venture of Barratt & Segro has won the race to become development partner on Enfield Council’s £3.5bn Meridian Water scheme.
The news was confirmed by the council today after the winners were revealed by the Enquirer this morning.
Barratt will be master developer for the project, who will work with Segro as a development partner on the urban logistics element. The project will provide 10,000 homes 10,000 construction jobs during a 20-year build period.
Barratt London has pulled out of its development partnership with Enfield Council to deliver the vast 10,000-home Meridian Water regeneration scheme in North London.
The council will now retender the huge redevelopment scheme and has reassured enabling works contractors that it will press on with plans to deliver a new railway station and remediate land.
Barratt London was named as the preferred development partner 18 months ago and was due to sign off the development agreement in the Spring, ahead of making a start on the first homes early next year.
But Enfield Council confirmed that discussions with Barratt have been terminated because Barratt’s proposed terms amounted to a “poor deal” for residents.
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