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News, comment and features
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If you’re planning to refurnish a room the right piece might just be there waiting for you at the Barnet Furniture Centre. This valuable local asset is at the top of Colney Hatch Lane in Friern Barnet (4 Queens Parade Close, N11 3FY – tel 020 8361 6802) and should be much better known.
The governing body of Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is set to approve stricter criteria for access to specified surgical procedures at its meeting tomorrow (20th September). The meeting at Holbrook House, Cockfosters, is open to the public and starts at 12:30pm. Campaigners are planning to congregate outside the building from 11:30am to show their disgust at reductions the availability of NHS services masquerading as "clinically evidenced" changes.
The poster used to.......
Enfield joins a global push towards a car-free day
World Car Free Day takes place on 22 September
Enfield schools, students and staff commit to leaving cars at home
TfL’s STARS project is also supporting the initiative across London
Families across Enfield are being asked to leave their cars at home and find alternative ways of getting into school in celebration of World Car Free Day (22 September).
World Car Free Day also coincides with Transport for London’s.......
Catherine Lee-Smith is involved in the launch of a new oral history project: Living Memories of Forty Hall. Click here to send an email to Catherine.
Photo by Pterre reproduced under Creative Commons by 3.0 licence
My name is Catherine and I am assisting Verity Roberts in setting up a Forty Hall Oral History Group.
OUR AIMS & OBJECTIVES:
To discover and capture local peoples’ experience of Forty Hall and the impact that this place has had on their lives.
To record this.......
It looks pretty certain that the Co-op will be moving into the Palmers Green shop that was vacated by Waitrose last month.
The eagle-eyed Donald Smith has discovered a notice in the Enfield Independent - an application by Co-operative Food Limited for a new Premises Licence for the sale of alcohol for consumption off the premises between Monday-Sunday 07:00-23:00. "Address of Premises: Co-op 284 Green Lanes London N13 5TU".
So we will end up with two Co-op shops more or less.......
Star Pubs and Bars and the Lateral Property Group have now submitted a planning application for redevelopment of the Fox pub and car park. There appear to be only small changes to the plans that were on show at the public exhibition held this July.
The planning application
17/03634/FUL | Redevelopment of site involving partial demolition of existing buildings to provide refurbished public house (A4) and commercial unit (A1-A5, D2) on the ground floor together with erection of 44.......
Enfield Council is conducting two surveys on food poverty in Enfield - one for local residents and one for community groups.What is food poverty?“Food Poverty” is a contested term but the Department of Health state that it can be defined as the inability to afford or have access to the food needed for a healthy diet.Who does food poverty affect?Many factors determine what does or does not end up on our plate. Households with lower incomes, lower than average educational outcomes and in low.......
A meeting on 20th September will discuss the Mayor of London's consultation on changes to the way that the public can access and engage with the police.
As a result of Government funding cuts, since 2010, the Met Police have had to find £600m of savings and must save a further £400m by 2020.
Mayor Sadiq Khan is determined to protect the front line from cuts, and he has published draft plans to: close costly and underused police front.......
Enfield Youth Offending Unit (YOU)
YOU needs volunteers who:
are concerned about youth crime
are able to engage with young people
would like to be part of the restorative justice process
can work with young offenders to help challenge and change their behaviour
can help us to help them and make Enfield a better place to live and work
believe that young people should have to make reparation (community work to repair the harm caused by their crime) to society for the harm caused by.......
A nine-hour feast of poetry In Enfield aims to rescue a family from a Syrian refugee camp. The Enfield Poem-a-thon will raise money for Enfield Refugee Welcome, the first Community Sponsorship Group in the UK to have resettled a refugee family under the government's Vulnerable Children's Resettlement Scheme.
Enfield Poem-a-thon organizer Maggie Butt, herself one of the poets who will be taking part, explains: "I am so proud that Enfield has the first community sponsorship group in the country.......
The charity Thames 21 is recruiting volunteers to work in small teams to use computer modelling to help clean up three tributaries of the River Lea - the Pymmes Brook and Salmons Brook on our side of the Lea and the Ching Brook on the east side.
Love the Lea – Community Modelling
Communities to shape water quality solutions
Thames21 has begun a new initiative which aims to involve local communities in setting out future plans for their rivers. Using community modelling,.......
In an attempt to reduce certain forms of "anti-social behaviour" Enfield Council is proposing to introduce a borough-wide Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO). The proposed PSPO would prohibit a wide range of activities or behaviour considered to be "unacceptable". A public consultation is under way until 18 September 2017.