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Palmers Green Community Newsletter 20 June 2024

Palmers Green Community Newsletter 20 June 2024
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20 June 2024

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Council launching updated Enfield Climate Action Plan this weekend

Enfield Council will be launching its updated Climate Action Plan at a "community networking and fun event" to be held at Edmonton Green Library on Saturday 22nd June.

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June meeting of Palmers Green Ward Panel

Panel chair Karl Brown describes the main points from this month's meeting:

  • Rise in burglaries and thefts
  • The unsuccessful attempts to find a local base for safer neighbourhood team members
  • Large-scale closures of police stations across London blamed on Cameron and Johnson governments and turn out to be a false economy
  • A Business Improvement District for PG?
  • More businesses getting involved in CHIPS safe haven scheme
  • Police close down drugs-related premises in PG

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PG Action team leading fight to block new gambling venue

Mati Valdivieso from Palmers Green Action team asks "Who wants another betting shop on our high street?"

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Why London needs to be turned into a 'sponge city'

The next four years are critical to tackling flooding and water pollution in London. To address these problems, London must urgently become a ‘Sponge City’. But how – and why? And how can Londoners with front or back gardens help? Alice Roberts from CPRE London explains.

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Get your fill of sustainable supplies

Top-up Truck (a converted milk float) will be calling at Devonshire Square every Friday afternoon, bringing a large range of package-free food and other household consumables to Palmers Green. And for refills five days a week, don't forget that just up the railway line, a couple of minutes walk from Grange Park station, there is a shop with a very large range of unpackaged items, Refill at the Grange.

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Also this week...

Pedestrianisation of Devonshire Square: Forum comments/Information about statutory consultation

A406 crash causes damage to PG dental surgery - forum discussion

Whitewebbs campaigners issue urgent crowdfunding appeal - forum comment


Reported elsewhere...

Mums for Lungs Election 2024 Asks

The scandal of London's disappearing police stations

Is Enfield Council taking fire safety seriously?

UK has seen ‘explosion’ in insecure work since 2011, says TUC report

BBC uncovers 6,000 possible illegal sewage spills in one year

Health open letter to policymakers on climate and ecological crisis

We need a government committed to a fully public and well-funded NHS

Road Peace: Sign our open letter in support of Graduated Driving Licensing

Tell the next government to get on board with clean air

Accessible toilet installed at Finsbury Park Station

UK children shorter, fatter and sicker amid poor diet and poverty, report finds

A Neglected Generation: Reversing the decline in children's health in England

Children facing a ‘brutal’ loss of time and space for play at state schools

Become a paid shares-lives carer

Unsafe E coli levels in more than 10% of UK top beaches

Police "appalled" by sentence of driver who ran red light and killed cyclist as he inhaled laughing gas

Climate change: what’s car parking got to do with it?

A renewable energy transition that doesn’t harm nature? It’s not just possible, it’s essential


Latest from Enfield Dispatch

Ponders End homeless shelter approved despite local opposition

Kendall: Labour has “bold and ambitious” child poverty strategy

Digital signalling progress on rail route through North London

Prep school celebrates 100th birthday in style

Mayor launches free legal advice service

New North London Hospice charity shop opens in Enfield Town

Consider the impact on the NHS when you cast your vote

Extra Night Tube services being considered by City Hall

Khan criticised by watchdog over affordable housing claims

Who is standing for parliament in Enfield – and how you can vote

Residents unconvinced by two new low-traffic schemes

Son visiting sick father at North Mid racks up £780 in fines

Winchmore Hill café granted alcohol licence despite dozens of objections

Enfield Council spends £500k in five years on planning legal battles

Further work needed on fire safety in response to Grenfell, says Khan


Consultations and surveys

Statutory Consultation: Devonshire Road, junction with Green Lanes S249, pedestrianisation of the area (Enfield Council 9/7/2024)

Enfield Chase Landscape Restoration - Community Survey (Enfield Council 1/9/2024)


Talkies Community Cinema

Thursday 4 July

Return to Seoul

Dugdale Arts Centre


What's on this week and next

Exhibitions and longer runs

18 June until 13 July

Exhibition: Welcome to our World

Tuesday 2 July

10.00am - 11.30am

Weekly Knit & Natter

10.00am - 12.00pm

Winchmore Folk Dance Club

11.00am - 1.00pm

Armed forces veterans' social group meeting

Wednesday 3 July

10.45am - 11.45am

Active Enfield free weekly walk in Broomfield Park

2.30pm - 4.30pm

Broomfield Conservatory open

6.00pm - 7.00pm, 7.00pm - 8.00pm

Soft Yoga

7.00pm - 9.00pm

Weekly stitch and knit social

Future Highlights

Friday 5 July

Summer Reading Challenge launch party at Palmers Green Library

Saturday 6 July

Boxtree Productions present The Wind in the Willows

Céilidh in aid of Nightingale Cancer Support

Southgate Symphony Orchestra: A Farewell to Adrian Brown

Sunday 7 July

Broomfield Conservatory open - with free children's activity

Sustainable Clothes Swap

Tuesday 9 July

Grief Café at Enfield Town Library

Wednesday 10 July

Active Enfield free weekly walk in Broomfield Park

Thursday 11 July

Enfield Recruitment Day

R'Voices Choir

Saturday 13 July and Sunday 14 July

Festival of the Lea

Saturday 13 July

Janine Johnson: Soul in the Park

Friends of Arnos Park Summer Sizzler CommunityBBQ

Park Live: The Britpop Boys

Winchmore String Orchestra: Concert in aid of Sing Out Choir

Sunday 14 July until Saturday 20 July

Incognito Theatre presents Rabbit Hole by David Lindsay-Abaire

Sunday 14 July

Community Orchard picnic

Monday 15 July

Talk: From Monoux and Morris to Beer and Bacon Jam - a virtual tour of the history of Walthamstow

Wednesday 17 July

Active Enfield free weekly walk in Broomfield Park

Sunday 21 July

Tales from the Shed

Monday 22 July

Chickenshed present Gulliver's Travels

Wednesday 24 July

Active Enfield free weekly walk in Broomfield Park

Saturday 27 July

Heritage Walk in Enfield Town

Wednesday 31 July

Active Enfield free weekly walk in Broomfield Park

Sunday 4 August

Broomfield Blues


Latest GlobalNet21 and Enfield Voices webinars

22 May 2024

Fairtrade And Climate Change

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21 May 2024

EnCaf Representations On Enfield's Local Plan

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14 May 2024

How Climate Change Will Alter Our Food

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10 May 2024

Collaborative Projects To Green Up Neighbourhoods

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24 April 2024

The Coming Heat Storm

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24 April 2024

Extreme Heat & Tree Canopies

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24 April 2024

Tackling Floods Through Sponge Cities

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10 April 2024

Feedback From London Assembly Hustings

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10 April 2024

TacklingFly-tipping

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9 April 2024

The Climate Crisis - One Minute to Midnight

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27 March 2024

Extreme Weather & The Vulnerable

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26 March 2024

Adapting To Climate Change

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25 March 2024

Rich Countries Have A High Carbon Footprint

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20 March 2024

Can Democracy Cope With Climate Change

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19 March 2024

Fly-tipping and its Impact on our Environment

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18 March 2024

Meaningful Engagement On Enfield’s Local Plan

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17 March 2024

Large Scale District Heating. Is it Efficient?

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12 March 2024

Why Do Cooling Centres Stay Empty?

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12 March 2024

Tackling Fuel Poverty

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9 March 2024

Climate Change - The Silent Killer

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