Enfield Council is set to vote on its Housing & Growth Strategy 2025-2030, a plan designed to address the borough's housing needs through partnership and long-term investment. The council met on Tuesday 24 June 2025 to discuss the strategy, which outlines a vision for creating more and better homes in Enfield.
The strategy identifies key priorities, including building good quality affordable homes, investing in existing council homes, driving up standards in the private rented sector, tackling homelessness, providing specialist housing, delivering carbon neutral homes, and creating well-managed neighbourhoods. The council plans to invest in existing council homes to ensure they are safe and secure, achieve decency, enhance energy performance, and complete day-to-day repairs and maintenance. The document notes that the new government has signalled its ambition to increase housebuilding at scale and pace, with reforms to the planning system and more support for infrastructure. It also welcomes proposed reforms to the Right to Buy, which will avoid the further loss of council homes.
To drive up standards in the private rented sector, the council will implement landlord licensing schemes, education, and enforcement, achieved through licence conditions. The council also welcomes proposed measures in the Renters Rights Bill to improve standards in the PRS, such as the extension of the Decent Homes Standard and the creation of an ombudsman service.
According to the Housing & Growth Strategy 2025-2030, the strategy aims to deliver a range of homes that local people can afford by ensuring where viable at least 50% of new homes are genuinely affordable. It also recognises the need for more homes of all tenures to meet the demands of a growing local population, including market sale, low-cost home ownership, and intermediate rent, as well as social and affordable rented homes.
The strategy will be monitored quarterly by an Officer Board to assess progress and drive forward actions and delivery. Additionally, an annual review will be undertaken by the Housing and Regeneration Scrutiny Panel alongside stakeholder group reviews of relevant areas to ensure continued co-production with Enfield residents. Specific KPIs are not listed in the provided documents.
The strategy was informed by targeted engagement with residents, council officers, and partners. A survey distributed to these groups, supplemented by individual meetings with some of the largest registered providers and developers, as well as feedback sessions with the Enfield 500 group of council tenants/leaseholders and a webinar for council staff.
The Equality Impact Assessment notes that the strategy objectives are designed to deliver housing services that are child, age and disability friendly, inclusive and intended to meet the individual needs of residents, therefore having a positive impact on all protected characteristics.
Councillor Ayten Guzel, Cabinet Member for Housing, stated in the strategy's foreword: Everyone deserves access to a safe and decent home that meets their needs. This strategy sets out how we will shape the future of housing in Enfield for current and future generations in an increasingly challenging climate where we must forge new partnerships and make the most of every opportunity and resource available to us.
