The Trent Park Campus extends to some 21 ha (51.89 acres) and comprises a Mansion House and a broad range of ancillary buildings varying in age, importance, architecture and condition.

The Trent Park Campus is designated as a Major Developed Site in the Greenbelt, where major redevelopment could take place subject to compliance with criteria to ensure it is compatible with objectives to preserve the openness and function of the greenbelt.

• Redevelopment Opportunities

  Redevelopment for a major educational or institutional use, or alternative employment or community uses would be appropriate in land use terms. Other uses, or as part of a mixed use redevelopment, might also be consistent with greenbelt policy as well as positively enhancing the character and appearance of the Trent Park Conservation Area through high quality, sensitively sited new development and restoration of historic buildings and landscape.

  It is therefore considered, subject to receiving the necessary consents, that the Estate could be suitable for comprehensive re-development comprising residential care, retirement or extra care, hotel or other employment purposes, as well as community and or education uses.

• Development Proposals

  There is a preference on the part of Enfield Council planning officers to see educational, community and employment uses remain on site. However, proposals which retain and enhance the historic buildings and landscape of the campus and bring about a dramatic improvement to the character and appearance of the core of the Trent Park Conservation Area, would conform with other policy requirements.

• Suggested Initiatives

  Initiatives that might be positively supported by Enfield Borough Council include:

  • Removal of Jebb to allow the Mansion House to be the dominant listed building
  • Removal of the music block to improves the Orangery and enable the Long Garden to be reinstated
  • Improvements to the Stable Block to reinforce it as a key landmark, with its attractive clock tower
  • Removal of Gubbay Hall which would allow new development on its site to positively address the Daffodil Lawn and the Mansion
  • Removal of Sassoon Hall to improve the setting of the Long Garden and the Stable Block
  • Removal of Bevan and the reinstatement of the Georgian lawn between the mansion and the lake
  • Removal of the Wisteria, Lakeview and Repton buildings to provide a more sensitively located and screened development zone away from the Mansion and the Long Garden