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News, comment and features
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The Council is seeking views on reviewing the current street trading policy. Street trading can cover tables and chairs and the display of goods on the pavement. Currently, the policy only permits street trading licences for tables and chairs on the pavement outside restaurants, cafes and pubs in certain designated streets, and the sale of goods from seasonal and farmers markets and the sale of goods from a small number of very longstanding stalls.
In line with his support for Make London a National Park City, the Mayor of London is setting up a Greener City Fund to provide money for local groups to plant trees and improve green spaces. Groups have until 29 September to apply for Tree Planting Grants and until 20 October to apply for Community Green Spaces Grants.
Greener City Fund
Mayor Sadiq Khan’s new £9 million fund to create and improve green spaces and encourage more tree planting in London.
The Mayor wants.......
Talkies Community Cinema is partnering with Short Sighted Cinema once more to commission four filmmakers to produce a short film located in Palmers Green. Each maker will be will be awarded £500 towards the cost of their film. The winning films will be shown as part of the 2018 Here Suburban Film Festival.HERE Suburban Film FestivalEach year, Talkies Community Cinema partners with Short Sighted Cinema to commission four new short films as part of the HERE Film Festival.The festival.......
Less than five months after opening its own Tap Room in Myddleton Road, Bowes Park's Bohem Brewery has had to install new brewing equipment to cope with demand for its authentic Czech lagers.
The brewery is located in a former shop in Whittington Road. The opening of the Tap Room in April and the resultant increase in sales meant that brewer Petr Skoček was able to give up his other job as a dustcart driver to concentrate on his real vocation.
Bohem beers are available not.......
The Friends of Wolves Lane Centre are looking for people with the skills needed to set up and run a workshop needed keep the unique horticultural Centre in working order, now that it is no longer looked after by Haringey Council.
Wolves Lane Centre needs you!
Would you be able to help look after the buildings and equipment at the Wolves Lane Centre?
Please help us to preserve this local asset.
If you would like to get involved...
Come to Wolves Lane Centre
Tuesday 5th September at 11.......
Colin Younger, Chair of the Broomfield House Trust, updates us on the progress of efforts to restore the House.Broomfield House Trust members met with Enfield Council officers on 23 August to discuss thinking on a way ahead on the reconstruction of the House and stableyard. This follows structural engineers' re-examination of the House's remains and further cost estimates for potential work.On behalf of the Broomfield House TrustThe Art of Gerard Lanscroonwith ML.......
Last week I reported on a very well attended meeting on 15th August in opposition to proposed cutbacks in the availability of procedures on the NHS (the so-called Adherence to Evidence-Based Medicine process). I've now received a much more detailed account of the meeting, written by Frances Warboys of Defend Enfield NHS. As well as providing more information about what was said, it shows the value of being able to take shorthand notes!
Note: The article was edited on 24th.......
Enfield Carers Centre (ECC) has expressed serious concerns about Enfield Council's proposals to change the formula for calculating how much to charge for social care. Specifically, the proposals would affect people who require night-time care, some of whom stand to see the amount charged rising by £27.45 per week while their income has not increased.
ECC is asking all Enfield residents, including those not personally affected, to respond to the consultation which is currently in.......
Chickenshed is inviting people over 50 to take part in six workshops that explore the "space between" their generation and young people.The Space Between Us ProjectVenue: ChickenshedTickets: £45 for a series of 6 workshopsTime: Every Monday, 7pm - 9pmAre you a baby boomer? From the original protest generation? Did you survive the sixties to tell a tale?The Space Between Us is a brand new creative initiative that will bring together a group of participants and collaborators all over the age.......
There'll be so many things going on at the Palmers Green Festival on 3rd September that you might miss some of them, so over the next couple of weeks we'll be highlighting a few that you might enjoy, This time we look at the 2nd Palmers Green Art Festival.
A new feature at last year's PG Festival was the Art Festival, run by Starfish & Coffee. More than 35 artists exhibited their work along Aldermans Hill.
The Art Festival will be back this year in the same place. Aykut Hilmi.......
There'll be so many things going on at the Palmers Green Festival on 3rd September that you might miss some of them, so over the next couple of weeks we'll be highlighting a few that you might enjoy, starting with Try-a-Bike.
Think you can't cycle? Think again!
You don't have to be young, fit or even able-bodied to ride a bike. And lots of bikes are great for carrying kids and/or shopping.
Come and try some out for free at Palmers Green Festival! We have cargo bikes to carry kids or.......
Two weeks to go before the Palmers Green Festival!
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What can we expect at this year's 10th PG Festival? Well, pretty much the same eclectic mix as before, something for all ages and tastes. Music, dance, a funfair, food, drink, art and craft stalls, local history, conservation groups, community groups, charities, political parties (do they count as fun?), a dog show (prizes include Prettiest Bitch and Dog with the Waggiest Tail) and more. Check.......