Meridian Water

Meridian Water is a planned 82-hectare (200-acre) new neighbourhood in Edmonton, in the south-east of the London Borough of Enfield, North London. The council and councillor-agreed supplemental Local Plan for Meridian Water entails the demolition of warehouses and proposes to contain 10,000 new homes and 6,700 new jobs served by direct trains to the Liverpool Street Station. The development “represents one of the capital’s largest regeneration opportunities”.

LDA Design, Beyond Green, Atkins Group and BNP Paribas Real Estate were chosen to deliver the proposals for the site.

The Meridian Water development site is centred 1.2 km south-east of the town centre of Edmonton Green. It comprises an area of approximately 0.82 km², 0.72 km² of which is land capable of development.

In economic geography the site consists largely of vacant or ailing facilities for transport or industrial use, and in natural geography is characterised by the waterways of the mid-Lea which pass through or beside it to the east: the River Lee Navigation, the Lee Diversion, the River Lee Flood Relief Channel, and Pymmes and Salmons Brook.

The site is home to large Tesco and IKEA superstores, the Ravenside Retail park in the north of the site and a number of large blue warehouse structures formally owned by British Oxygenated Company, or BOC Group, for packaged gas, chemicals and related products, that are now used for storage, industrial and distribution uses.

The Hanlon Community Centre on the edge of Meridian Water was opened by Prince Andrew on 16 July 2012. Its construction is the first part of £1.3 billion of ecologically sustainable building, commissioned by Enfield Council. Father Asbridge, the Priest Missioner at St. Mary with St. John's church where the Community Centre is housed, said “Meridian Water offers this downtrodden community a chance of the jobs, new homes, schools, bus and train routes, and the access to shops and services that we so badly need.”

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