Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Planning Application in Enfield's Green Belt
TP/05/1741

Location: Land East Of Bulls Cross, Rear Of Myddelton House, Bulls Cross, And, Bulls Cross Open Space, Bullsmoor Lane, Enfield, Middx, EN2

Details: Football academy, pitches and community sports hall.

Background

THFC used to have a training ground in Cheshunt but sold this for development.

THFC applied for planning permission in Abridge to build a new training ground, but this was turned down by Epping. See below for information of refusal.

THFC apply for planning permission at Bulls Cross near Myddleton House, Enfield. Land is owned by London Borough of Enfield.

I cannot see how an organisation granting the proposed lease and the organisation dealing with the planning application can be one and the same.

Links to news and press releases:

http://www.enfieldpressoc.org.uk/

Enfield Independent 6th October 2005

Enfield Independent 7th October 2005

Enfield Independent letter

http://www.spursodyssey.com/0506/mhouse.html

http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=7585

Spurs Academy to come to Enfield?

Date and Time of Publication:- 2005-01-13 17:03:08

Enfield Council’s Cabinet will be deciding next week (20 January 2005) whether to lease some of its land to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club for a new training centre and academy.

Spurs have approached the Council and the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority as landowners about developing a world class training facility and academy on the land behind Myddelton House.

Their proposal would see a centre together with associated natural and synthetic training pitches on the land behind Myddelton House and a new community building providing education, sporting and community support programmes on the Bulls Cross Sports ground.

The Cabinet will be deciding, as a landowner, whether to enter into a conditional contract with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club for the letting of its land for a term of 75 years.

If agreed, the proposal and lease of the land would be dependent upon the club getting planning permission for the development. This would involve a major consultation with local people and interested groups as the land is designated green belt land. The Council’s Planning Committee would then make an independent decision.

Spurs Academy to come to Enfield?

Date and Time of Publication:- 2005-01-25 12:25:02

Enfield Council’s Cabinet agreed to lease some of its land to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club for a new training centre and academy.

Spurs approached the Council and the Lee Valley Regional Park Authority as landowners about developing a world class training facility and academy on the land behind Myddelton House.

The decision will lead to a conditional contract with Tottenham Hotspur Football Club for a 75-year lease.

However, the proposal and lease of the land is still dependent upon the club getting planning permission for the development. This would involve a major consultation with local people and interested groups as the land is designated green belt land. The Council’s Planning Committee would then make an independent decision.

It is likely the proposal would see a centre together with associated natural and synthetic training pitches on the land behind Myddelton House and a new community building providing education, sporting and community support programmes on the Bulls Cross Sports ground.

Cllr Michael Rye, Leader of the Council, said: “As landowners we felt that this was an opportunity to increase the community use for some of our land that is currently under-utilised.

“However it is still subject to a rigorous, independent planning process that will involve a major consultation with residents. In the end the planning committee will decide whether this proposal is in the best interests of the borough.”

EPPING's REFUSAL - 24th February 2003

Epping Forest District Council Planning Department, 323, High Street Epping, Essex Application No: EPF/lO5O/02 TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1990 Town and Country Planning General Development Orders To Hepher Dixon Ltd 62 High Street Stony Stratford Milton Keynes MK11 1AQ On behalf of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club Bill Nicholson Way 748 High Road Tottenham London Nl7 OAP Proposal: Football academy comprising a training building, natural and artificial sport pitches, associated parking, landscaping and ancillary facilities. Location: LAND SOUTH SIDE OF EPPING LANE, OPPOSITE ABRIDGE GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB, EPPING LANE, THEYDON MOUNT In pursuance of the powers exercised by the Local Planning Authority this Council do hereby give notice of their decision to REFUSE PERMISSION for the above development, for the reasons listed below. Signed Date 24th February 2003 Reasons 1. The proposal would constitute inappropriate development in the Green Belt. There would be material harm to the Green Belt by way of (i) inappropriateness; (ii) weakening of one of the purposes of the Green Belt ("to assist in safeguarding the countryside from encroachment"); and (iii) significant adverse effect on the visual amenities of the Green Belt, contrary to Replacement Structure Plan policy Cl and C2 and Local Plan policies GB2 and GB3. The matters put forward by the applicant do not constitute very special circumstances sufficient to outweigh the harm to the Green Belt and the presumption against inappropriate development. 2. The proposal cannot be accommodated on the site without significant harm to the landscape character of the Roding Valley and destruction of the attractive character of Epping Lane as part of the countryside highway network. This harm would not be mitigated by the compensatory measures proposed. It is therefore contrary to Policy LL2 of the Local Plan and NR1 of the Replacement Structure Plan. 3. Despite the submission of an outline travel plan and other suggested mitigating measures, it is considered that, partly evidenced by the area available for parking, the estimated number and type of vehicular traffic generated by the proposal would be excessive during both the construction and operation of the development. This would add to traffic danger and cause significant harm to highway and pedestrian safety which would be contrary to Policy T17 of the Local Plan. 4. The proposed site is in a remote, rural location and is wholly inadequately served by public transport. Furthermore, there would be an excessive number of individual car journeys and trips to be generated by the development, and it is considered that, because the development is not accessible by existing and committed sustainable means of transport, it would be contrary to Policy CS4 of the Replacement Structure Plan.