]> 2026-04-21T09:16:54+00:00 Case study:Albany Park 500 en 1._Albany_Park_River_Restoration_Project_Summary.pdf picture summary Approved Creation of berms Creation of backwaters Environment Agency London Borough of Enfield Great Britain Local council Greater London Authority Environment Agency environmental funding and flood risk funding. Yes No Yes false P03 Albany drone during construction.jpg P04 Albany downstream river breakthrough (looking upstream).JPG Pre-Restoration.jpeg During construction.jpeg Post restoration.jpeg Drone Photograph during early phase of construction Breaking back into Turkey Brook at the downstream end, looking upstream. The confined concrete channel pre-restoration. During construction. Note the extremely gravelly ground through which the channel was created. No The project was severely delayed due to a combination of Covid-19 and wet weather, there were also issues with securing planning permission due to the large number of stakeholders involved. 51.668292502502,-0.03331565864322 mbiddulph Matilda Environment Agency Biddulph Creation of berms, Creation of backwaters,,River naturalisation, Reedbed creation, Scrapes, Fish habitat restoration,, ,,Recreation,, As the project was completed in the Summer of 2021, monitoring is still on going. Invertebrates, macrophytes, fish and water quality will be monitored before and after for a number of years, alongside morph surveys with accompanying drone footages to show the change in channel shape over time. 12787 London Borough of Enfield, Left: pre-restoration concrete channel Right: post-restoration sinuous, natural channel. Albany Park Before and After.png 2016-01-04Z 2457391.5 Complete A partnership project between London Borough of Enfield (LBE) and the Environment Agency (EA; Biodiversity & Geomorphology team from Hertfordshire and North London Area). Funded by LBE, EA and the Greater London Authority (GLA). The environmental and flood risk benefits allowed for funding, and the project came to approximately £1.5million. The Turkey Brook is a medium sized, clay-based catchment flowing initially through rural grassland into a dense urban area of London, before meeting the River Lee in Enfield. It is failing under the Water Framework Directive for: macrophytes and phytobenthos, phosphate, and drought/low flows, and hydromorphology. The river was confined in a steep sided concrete channel along the edge of the park, with very little biodiversity, habitat or connection with groundwater. The general public often did not even know it was there, or if they did they regarded it as an open sewer. The Albany Park Restoration Project aimed to restore 400m of the Turkey Brook, by breaking it out of concrete and creating a natural, sinuous river through the park. The river now flows through a wide, shallow river corridor made up primarily of the Kempton Park Gravel Member, which allows the channel to reform and reshape itself during high flows until it reaches an equilibrium. The urban, flashy nature of the catchment means that intensive geomorphological work is achieved during each high flow event. The river is now connected laterally with it's floodplain and riparian zone, and vertically with the groundwater and a hyporheic zone. The natural cross section and improved connectivity has improved the Turkey Brook's resilience to low flows, and its ability to store water and attenuate high flows. The constructed wetlands and SuDs features around the park has hopefully also improved water quality, but ongoing monitoring will determine the success of this. The river is now a valuable public amenity in an otherwise heavily urban area, and provides an educational resource for local schools. Albany Park albany park No 400 London Thames River naturalisation Reedbed creation Scrapes Fish habitat restoration Cuffley Brook and Turkey Brook cuffley brook and turkey brook Recreation 10 - 100 km² 143 100 - 200 m Cuffley Brook and Turkey Brook GB106038033180 Environmental flows and water resources Fisheries Flood risk management Habitat and biodiversity Hydromorphology Social benefits Spatial planning Urban 1000 - 5000 k€ GB106038033180 Cuffley Brook and Turkey Brook 2021-08-01Z 2459427.5 2020-08-01Z 2459062.5 2014-04-10T14:49:01Z 2456758.1173727 2022-07-28T09:40:23Z 2459788.903044 Albany Park 500 1 plainlist 5 [[Category:Case study]] [[Project title::!Albany Park]] [[Subcatchment title::Cuffley Brook and Turkey Brook]] Albany Park# QUERY1120f46f13e00d18c0998d2bb8b8ab58