Trent Park's gates, a £75,000 play area at High Road Open Space, fencing at Albany and Provident. The full 16-site list, and the 21 August call-in date.
Enfield Council has approved £570,000 of works across 16 named parks, cemeteries and open spaces. They range from replacing both historic entrance gates at Trent Park to a £75,000 play area refurbishment at High Road Open Space. The decision was signed on 14 August and can still be called in by councillors until 21 August. (Enfield Council, decision KD 6123)
The money is the remainder of a £1.5 million government grant. Enfield was awarded £750,000 for 2025-26 and a further £750,000 for 2026-27 from the Pride in Place Impact Fund. The housing ministry set out both in grant determinations published on 29 September 2025 and 29 April 2026.
The full list
Every figure below comes from the table in the officer report behind the decision. The council calls the costs indicative.
| Location | Work | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| High Road Open Space | Play area refurbishment | £75,000 |
| Town Park | Play area uplift, match funding to Section 106 money | £50,000 |
| Enfield Island Village | Replacement of wooden park equipment | £50,000 |
| Trent Park | Replacement of both historic entrance gates after pillar repair | £42,000 |
| Edmonton cemetery | Road and footpath repairs | £40,000 |
| Lavender Hill cemetery | Road and footpath repairs | £40,000 |
| Multiple parks | Replacement litter bins | £40,000 |
| Aldersbrook Recreation Ground | Play area uplift, roundabout and astro turf repairs | £30,000 |
| Church Street Rec | Play area uplift, single point swing replacement | £30,000 |
| Hazelwood Recreation Ground | Fencing, water play pump repair, wet pour and sand play timbers | £30,000 |
| Pymmes, Jubilee, Craig and Bush Hill | Basketball court markings, lining, hoops and backboards, 7 courts | £28,000 |
| Hilly Fields Park | Breedon gravel footpath improvements | £25,000 |
| North Enfield Recreation | Play area uplift, climbing wall repair and roundabout replacement | £25,000 |
| Provident Park | Boundary fencing to prevent incursion, flytipping and antisocial behaviour | £25,000 |
| Albany Park | Boundary fencing to prevent incursion and antisocial behaviour | £20,000 |
| Arnos Park | Play area uplift, embankment slide wet pour repairs and roundabout | £20,000 |
Two smaller items were approved alongside it. Croyland Youth Centre gets around £10,000 for doors, windows, security, toilets, flooring and decoration. A street benches programme gets £20,000, which the report costs at £19,764.65 for nine benches in locations agreed with the Leader and Chief Executive, with officers looking at up to two more sites.
Where the rest of the £1.5m went
The report accounts for the whole grant. Before this decision:
- £400,000 went to the Pride of Enfield grant scheme, which the report says supported 24 community organisations with £393,884 invested
- £358,000 was approved earlier for deep street cleaning and restoration at Broomfield Park Stables
- £142,000 is held back as contingency against cost overruns on the projects already agreed
Street works already completed under the fund covered Ponders End High Street, Church Street and Fore Street around Edmonton Green station, the Hertford Road and Green Street junction, Main Avenue and Roman Way, Hertford Road, Turkey Street and Eastfield Road, and Green Lanes in Palmers Green. Street bins, benching at Albany Park and resurfacing of the Jubilee Park car park are also recorded as done or well advanced.
Restoration of the Broomfield Park bandstand has moved into delivery, and the report says a reopening or celebration event is being planned. The rest of the Broomfield Park work has been phased because more structural defects were found and because of nesting birds on the site.
The deadline behind it
The fund is capital only and time limited. The report says the money must deliver tangible improvements by March 2027, and that all these projects are expected to finish before April 2027. Officers set out two alternatives in the report and rejected both: picking a different set of projects, which would delay spending, or handing the remainder back to the housing ministry.
What it means for you
If one of the 16 sites is your local park, the work is funded but not yet scheduled. The report delegates the final scope, delivery route and detailed costs to the Interim Executive Director of Environment and Communities, in consultation with the cabinet member, so timings will follow later.
If you want to object, the window is short. This is a key decision subject to call-in, the call-in deadline is 21 August 2026 and it takes effect on 22 August if no councillor calls it in. The decision page linked above shows the current call-in count, which was zero when the decision was published. Call-ins are made by councillors, so the route for a resident is through a ward councillor, contactable through the council’s democracy site.
If you are looking for what else is changing locally, our Enfield planning news page follows the borough’s larger schemes, and our things to do in Enfield page covers the parks themselves.
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