How the new Southgate & Wood Green constituency will differ from the current Enfield Southgate seat. As well as taking in part of Haringey borough, the reconfigured constituency will lose some areas to Edmonton & Winchmore Hill. (Click on the map to enlarge.)
The final outcome of consultations about redrawing parliamentary boundaries will see most of the Palmers Green area becoming part of a new Southgate & Wood Green constituency, but some PG streets will move to a new Edmonton & Winchmore Hill constituency.
The Boundary Commission for England's third and definitive proposal for new Enfield parliamentary seats includes a new Southgate & Wood Green constituency that is similar to the version they proposed last November, extending from the M25 right down to Wood Green station - a proposal which attracted much negative feedback. While, like the 2022 proposal, Winchmore Hill would move out of the Southgate constituency, the commission have responded to arguments that Winchmore Hill and Grange Park form a single community by including the latter in Edmonton & Winchmore Hill rather than in Enfield North.
People with N13 addresses who live in Highfield ward will find themselves in Edmonton & Winchmore Hill constituency. Highfield ward extends to the north of Hedge Lane (Ash Grove, Firs Lane etc), but also south of the long stretch of Hedge Lane which is east of the New River - so Connaught Gardens, Munster Gardens, the bottom end of Hazelwood Lane and the triangular area with the Cambridge Roundabout at its tip will no longer be represented by the Southgate MP. This will also be the case for three streets to the north of Fox Lane - Caversham Avenue, Burford Gardens and Cranley Gardens - because when the ward boundaries were redrawn a couple of years ago these streets remained in Winchmore Hill ward instead of becoming part of the new-look PG ward.
For more details of the proposals, the three consultation rounds and the reasoning behind the conclusions, see the Boundary Commission documents referenced below. For information about local reaction, see the Enfield Dispatch report.
