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Can You Help This Person? - posted by Karl Brown

18 May 2024 For over two years now Fox Lane bridge has been plagued by an overnight food dumper, usually weekly, sometimes twice weekly. Bad on pretty much every dimension and sucking up not inconsiderable council resource to boot. This could be the equivalent of the Japanese soldier trapped in the jungle and still fighting WW2 decades years on, in this case protesting[…]

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Most crime has fallen by 90% in the last 30 years - posted by Karl Brown

18 May 2024 To follow Neil’s posting, its exactly the impression given by press and social media, with its inevitable focus on sensationalism, which the research suggests has been a major factor in perception being out of step with actual crime levels. Stay calm despite the headlines! As for the other point, recorded crime which is not investigated is still very much a[…]

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Time, please, ladies and gentlemen!

17 May 2024 Here's the Dispatch story that Karl referenced. Last orders for two more Enfield pubs. If it's true that some bar staff didn't know about the closure a couple of days ago, that doesn't strike me as good management. Though at least they're all being redeployed.

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Most crime has fallen by 90% in the last 30 years - posted by Neil Littman

17 May 2024 I don't think I would have guessed that fall in crime from the constant stream of stories that appear in the local and national press or social media forums? Think it possible that it also has a lot to do with the way the statistics are compiled for reporting the numbers of crimes in terms of charges, trials, convictions etc.[…]

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Time, please, ladies and gentlemen! - posted by Neil Littman

17 May 2024 Probably worth repeating this link to the story from January this year: www.pgweb.uk/planning-all-subjects/pg-town-centre-improvements/3822-new-town-centre-business-applies-for-3am-alcohol-licence

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Time, please, ladies and gentlemen! - posted by Karl Brown

17 May 2024 A dense fog of uncertainty seems to surround PG’s Wetherspoons: earlier this week I heard it had seen a reprise from its well publicised sale plan; by mid week two bar staff had told a friend it was to close imminently with them being relocated to alternate outlets; a local publican subsequently confirmed same, adding rumour had it the (pretty[…]

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Time, please, ladies and gentlemen! - posted by Neil Littman

16 May 2024 The closing of the Alfred Herring along with over 30 other Wetherspoon pubs was announced quite a while ago with a new development proposed mainly upstairs. No closure timing was given back then. Also in Wanstead Wetherspoons announced the closure of The George which is magnificent Edwardian pub on the high street with a bit of notoriety concerning the previous[…]

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Time, please, ladies and gentlemen!

16 May 2024 Bill Linton wrote (message 7135) : Someone who has been in there reports that the staff are unaware of a change of ownership, or an impending shutdown. They are surely legally entitled to more than 2 days notice. Are you sure of your facts, Basil? Oh dear... Well, I'm less sure now that you've written that. I heard the[…]

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Redesigning Devonshire Square

16 May 2024 Apologies to readers who may have encountered a broken link to the design concept document in yesterday's article about redesigning Devonshire Square . The link was correct when I wrote the article, but since then Journeys and Places have replaced what was quite evidently an interim version of the document with a new version. I've updated the link in the[…]

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Time, please, ladies and gentlemen! - posted by Bill Linton

16 May 2024 Someone who has been in there reports that the staff are unaware of a change of ownership, or an impending shutdown. They are surely legally entitled to more than 2 days notice. Are you sure of your facts, Basil?

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Time, please, ladies and gentlemen! - posted by JuliusCaf

16 May 2024 This is one of the better Wetherspoon pubs. At the end of the day, price matters. The other pubs in the area are rubbing their hands.

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Most crime has fallen by 90% in the last 30 years - posted by Basil Clarke

16 May 2024 Karl Brown wrote (message 7131) : ...it does seem that violence, burglary and vehicle related theft have indeed fallen, gradually, off a cliff... How do you fall down a cliff gradually? Sounds more like it's rolled a long way down a hill...

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Time, please, ladies and gentlemen! - posted by Basil Clarke

16 May 2024 They say all good things come to an end. No doubt opinions are divided as to whether the large Wetherspoons pub in the centre of PG's high street is a good thing or not, but it's now clear that it is coming to an end imminently - this weekend in fact. Just one among a large number of JDW venues[…]

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Breaking Barriers: Addressing youth unemployment in London

15 May 2024 On Monday the umbrella body London Councils launched a new reportexploring ways the boroughs can break the barriers to addressing youth unemployment in London.

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Fancy 'Strutting the Square'?

15 May 2024 Love fashion? Want to build your confidence? Be the most beautiful gazelle on the runway? Then why not go for this opportunity being offered by Arbeit Studios in conjunction with Palmers Green business Philanthropy CIC and drag artist Vedi Roy?

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Redesigning Devonshire Square

15 May 2024 [Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click herePalmers Green residents are being invited by Enfield Council's Journeys and Places team to provide feedback on the newly published concept for a permanent redesign of Devonshire Square. In addition to an online survey running until 2nd June, there will be a public drop-in session on Friday 24th May. An artist's impression taken[…]

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Most crime has fallen by 90% in the last 30 years - posted by Karl Brown

15 May 2024 I’m now taking more interest in policing and crime articles, so this recent headline really struck me. Surely not I thought. I know stats can be dodgy. My first introduction to that was many years since when attending the inaugural professorship lecture of Adrian Smith, now President of the Royal Society, who introduced himself by saying he had more legs[…]

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Redesigning Devonshire Square

14 May 2024 Palmers Green residents are being invited by Enfield Council's Journeys and Places team to provide feedback on the recently published concept for a permanent redesign of Devonshire Square. In addition to an online survey running until 2nd June, there will be a public drop-in session at Arbeit Studios on Friday 24th May.

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Dementia Action Week in Enfield

13 May 2024 The nationwide Dementia Action Week takes place this year between 13th and 19th May. In Enfield the organisations working together in the Enfield Dementia Network are running help and awareness raising events throughout the week.

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Man charged with Palmers Green murder

11 May 2024 A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a pensioner in Millicent Grove, Palmers Green, on 7th May.

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Societies issue final appeal to public to object to draft Enfield Local Plan - posted by Darren Edgar

2 May 2024 Where to start.... well for hypocrisy shall we point out despite the purported clamour for brownfield development not green belt (conflating greenfield in the process) when anyone has proposed brownfield development these same societies and so called civic groups funnily enough demonstrate against them too? Like Southgate Office Village or Anglo Aquatic or Palace Gardens or TFC Palmers Green for[…]

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Societies issue final appeal to public to object to draft Enfield Local Plan

2 May 2024 Darren Edgar wrote (message 7128) : NIMBYs unite!!! The hypocrisy is laughable. The level of misinformation borderline malignant. Blunderbuss comments like this don't contribute to the debate. Give examples of hypocrisy. What parts of the statement are "misinformation"?

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Societies issue final appeal to public to object to draft Enfield Local Plan - posted by Darren Edgar

2 May 2024 NIMBYs unite!!! The hypocrisy is laughable. The level of misinformation borderline malignant.

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Societies issue final appeal to public to object to draft Enfield Local Plan - posted by Neil Littman

2 May 2024 Enfield Society and Enfield Roadwatch seem to have got their act together better than the council who organised a series of consultation meetings to discuss the Local Plan. I attended the one at Enfield Library on Tuesday April 30 and it was very badly arranged taking place in the foyer (!) of the library with no sound protection from the[…]

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Societies issue final appeal to public to object to draft Enfield Local Plan

1 May 2024 [Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click here As the deadline for submitting objections to the draft Enfield Local Plan approaches, the Enfield Society and Enfield RoadWatch have issued a jointly published leaflet, with the text shown below. Enfield's Green Belt and historic character are under attack! from proposals in the revised Enfield Local Plan The Consultation is live now.[…]

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Societies issue final appeal to public to object to draft Enfield Local Plan

1 May 2024 With the deadline approaching, the Enfield Society and Enfield RoadWatch have jointly issued a leaflet informing residents how they can object to elements of the draft Enfield Local Plan that the societies are strongly opposed to: construction on the green belt and tall buildings in town centres.

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Getting Bambos over the finishing line again

1 May 2024 Enfield Southgate MP and PG resident Bambos Charalambous completed the 2024 London Marathon last month. He needs a few more people to sponsor him in order to reach his target of raising £5000 for four charities.

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Another opportunity to help clear floating pennywort from the Lee/Lea

1 May 2024 A couple of months ago PGC published an invitation to join in work to clear floating pennywort from the Lee Navigation. Pippa Rowlinson has been back in touch with a new date, Sunday 26th May. This time the work will be carried out in the vicinity of Springfield Marina in Clapton

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