Housing • Park Road, Edmonton

This thoughtful small site housing proposal achieves an uplift of 40% compared to an extant scheme.

Ten years ago, RCKa secured planning permission for a four-storey development on this site in Edmonton providing 18 homes. The site was sold, and various architect attempted to obtain consent for a larger scheme. We were then appointed to return to the site and, with a new emerging planning context, explore opportunities to deliver more much-needed homes.

A planning application has now been submitted to Enfield Council for a taller building which achieves a 40% increase in density, whilst increasing the proportion of family homes to a quarter.

The site occupies a vacant plot next to the London Overground, with a frontage onto Park Road. It’s a stone’s throw from Silver Street station, and Pymmes Park to the west. We worked closely with Enfield’s planning and highways team to agree a zero-car strategy which unlocked on-street parking for wheelchair users. The scheme includes a range of one-, two- and three-bedroom flats—every one of which is double- or triple-aspect, with a walled garden for residents to the rear.

The playful forms and decorative brickwork reference the civic buildings of the nearby Fore Street conservation area, with ground floor homes providing front doors onto the street. The building’s massing has been carefully sculpted to avoid overshadowing of neighbouring gardens in this predominantly low-rise suburb.

This was the first application to be assessed by Enfield’s small site Design Review Panel.