Tottenham Hotspur Training Centre Hotspur Way Enfield EN2 9AP Data via plota.co.uk

Decided 25/03473/FUL
Appeal
Dismissed · 15 Jun 2026 · Written Representations · Inspectorate case 6004227 ↗
Council
Enfield 6.9/10
Date received
7 Oct 2025
Date validated
17 Oct 2025
Postcode
EN2 9AP

Description

Erection of a temporary stand, retractable floodlighting and associated works (RETROSPECTIVE). Data via plota.co.uk

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Site constraints 8

Green belt: London
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Article 4 direction
Borough wide. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Archaeological priority area
An assessment or field evaluation may be asked for before ground works.
The council or Historic England considers archaeology likely here. A desk-based assessment, and sometimes trial trenching, can be asked for with the application.
Air quality management area: Enfield AQMA
The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.
Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.
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Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Registered park or garden about 180 m away: Myddelton House; Public transport access: PTAL 0 (very poor), TfL 2023, for the 100 m square.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 10 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, Transport for London (public transport access levels, Powered by TfL Open Data, OGL v3.0, contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Historical activity at this location

16 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2024
Extension to existing Training Centre building.
24/04249/FUL
2024
Variation of ref: 21/03694/FUL condition number 1 to be amended as follows: This permissi…
24/03169/VAR
2021 Approved
Part retrospective erection of a temporary building (Sui Generis) to provide training fac…
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2023 Approved
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2023 Approved
Extension to existing training centre building (PART RETROSPECTIVE).
23/00859/FUL
2022 Approved
Erection of replacement floodlights.
22/03873/FUL
2022 Approved
Erection of a switch room (RETROSPECTIVE).
22/03334/FUL
2022 Approved
Part single, part 2-storey extension to the existing Training Centre Building including h…
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2022 Approved
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2017 Withdrawn
Erection of temporary stands, floodlighting and associated public announcement system.
17/04270/FUL
2021 Approved
Part single, part 2-storey extension to the existing Training Centre Building.
21/01648/FUL
2021 Approved
Erection of a single storey extension to existing Training Centre Building (Academy wing).
21/01623/FUL
2020 Approved
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20/02618/NMA
2020 Approved
Non-material amendment to TP/07/1623 to allow extension of covered service area to existi…
20/01528/NMA
2016 Approved
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16/02156/NMA
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Enfield
Planning Authority Score
6.9/10
Good
#65 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Enfield is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #15 out of 296. Only 5% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Enfield is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 83% approved vs 90% nationally.

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
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Enfield decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
78%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #271 of 296
83%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #260 of 296
90%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #15 of 296
5%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #1 of 296
60%
Minor dwellings approved
265 decided (1-9 homes)
63%
Major dwellings approved
8 decided (10+ homes)
72%
Change of use approved
322 decided
1,939
Total decisions
433 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings