EIR - New Town development in Enfield [Jan 2026]

1. Information Enfield Council gave to the GLA

Please provide copies of any correspondence, meeting notes or documents that Enfield
Council sent to the GLA between 1 July 2024 and 30 September 2025 relating to:

• potential New Town development in Enfield; or
• any land, sites or locations Enfield Council put forward for that purpose.

This includes:

• notes or records of any meetings (dates and names of attendees are sufficient),
• any attachments or supporting material Enfield Council provided.
• To keep things simple, I do not need:
• internal GLA emails,
• diary invites or calendar entries,
• duplicates,
• routine admin emails (e.g. scheduling),
• or anything that Enfield Council did not actually give to you.

So, the search should only cover material originating from Enfield Council.

2. If Request 1 is considered too broad

If for any reason you feel Request 1 is too wide, please answer this one separately:
Please provide a list of all meetings between the GLA and Enfield Council between 1
July 2024 and 30 September 2025 where potential New Town development or possible
land in Enfield was discussed.
For each meeting, please provide:

• The date
• Names or roles of attendees
• The title or subject of the meeting
• Any documents or slides Enfield Council brought or provided

Again, I’m not asking for internal GLA papers, handwritten notes, or anything
commercially sensitive like valuations.

3. How the “884 hectares” figure was worked out
Please provide the method the GLA used (or was given) to calculate or identify the
“884 hectares” of potential land in Enfield.
This can include:

• calculation sheets,
• scoping documents,
• notes explaining the approach,
• what data sources were used,
• any maps, diagrams or GIS material – draft versions are fine.

If there is no formal methodology, please confirm that and provide whatever working
explanation exists.
I am not asking for the names of individual sites or parcels if you consider those
sensitive, only the method used to reach the total figure.

Our response

[Summarised see related documents for full response]

1. For item 1 of your request, this falls under the exception to disclose because it is considered to be ‘manifestly unreasonable’ under Regulation 12(4)(b) of the Environmental Information Regulation (EIR). This provision allows public authorities to refuse requests which are obviously or clearly unreasonable or when the estimated cost of compliance is too great.

In line with your instructions to narrow the scope of your request, we have therefore considered parts 2 and 3 below:

2. Please see below table for list of meetings plus the additional information requested against each meeting. I have also indicated whether any additional documents are held against each meeting and whether these are attached:

We consider that the information contained in the requested slide packs falls under the
exception in Regulation (5)(e) (confidentiality of commercial or industrial information) and 12 (5)(f) (interests of the person who provided the information to the public authority).

3 - How the “884 hectares” figure was worked out Please provide the method the GLA used (or was given) to calculate or identify the “884 hectares” of potential land in Enfield.

The 884ha figure is an indicative study area, not adopted policy area or allocation. It refers to a broad area of search that was informed by a series of maps and land referencing information.