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News, comment and features
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Now that evenings are well and truly "drawn in", the problem of knowing how far you've got to on trains is affecting people travelling on Great Northern trains. Some of the stations are very poorly lit and don't have big enough signs with the station name.
There's a very simple solution, of course, at zero cost. The train company should just tell its drivers to announce each station - also helpful, of course, to people with eyesight problems at any time of day. .......
Local health and social care watchdog, Healthwatch Enfield, has today released a report on young people’s experiences of mental health support in the borough. The report’s findings paint a mixed picture of the availability of help for local young people with mental health needs.Young people told Healthwatch that often the key adults in their lives, such as parents, carers, teachers or youth workers, have little understanding of mental health issues. They reported significant negative.......
A new website, Get Your Rights, is highlighting that children and young people have a right to high quality healthcare by the NHS. The website, produced by the Council for Disabled Children at the National Children’s Bureau and funded by the Department of Health, provides everything children and young people need to get the most out of the health service.
It includes:
an interactive guide to children’s rights under the NHS Constitution;
videos from children, young people and.......
NHS England, in partnership with Age UK, Public Health England, and the Chief Fire Officer’s Association and Older People themselves, has published a Practical Guide to Healthy Ageing.
The Guide helps people to stay physically and mentally well by providing “hints and tips” on how to keep fit and independent.
While it is aimed at people of any age, it is particularly relevant for people aged around 70 years or older who are beginning to find that everyday tasks now take them.......
Timetables are now available for the (very slightly) improved Hertford Line service that starts on 13th December.
During the week the main change to Down (northbound) services is that the 20 minute frequency will continue slightly later into the evening and that all trains will start at Moorgate up to and including the 0018 from Moorgate. There will be one late train from Kings Cross, at 0105, not stopping at Crews Hill or Bayford.
For travellers from Palmers Green the evening Down.......
Residents hoping that the vacant space in the refurbished Palmers Green Library would be used as a health centre, GP surgery or dental surgery will be disappointed by the news that a ten year lease is to be granted to a commercial fitness club operator. The decision could be subject to a Councillor Call In but this would have to be done before this Friday.
Index of Published Decisions
The news that Enfield Council has decided to let the space to Fit4Less (a brand of Energie Fitness.......
The Friends of Broomfield Park have published a gallery of photographs taken at this year's ceremony in the park's Garden of Remembrance, along with a full report on the ceremony.
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Report
Photograph gallery.......
Within the next few weeks Enfield Council is hoping to start work to restore the double
avenue of trees in Broomfield Park which extends in a straight line across the whole of the top field from the western edge of the Park in the direction of the ornamental ponds and remains of Broomfield House. The avenues and the remains of a former
"causeway" running between the tree lines are regarded as important features relating to the Park's Baroque history.
The existing avenue of lime trees.......
Enfield Council has withdrawn its proposal to completely cease providing drop-in access to its Local Studies Centre at the Dugdale Centre and to drastically scale back the Enfield Museum, which is also located at the Dugdale Centre. There will, however, still be cutbacks, though their scope is unclear.
"Just Married" might have been the last special exhibition at the Enfield Museum under the original proposalsThis rethink, announced on the Council website earlier today, is a response to.......
Enfield Council has published some initial analysis of the responses from members of the public to the A105 Cycle Enfield Scheme (see the box below).
The analysis is very broad-brush, but one interesting fact that stands out is that respondents' highest priorities were pedestrian safety and air quality. "Convenient car parking" was one of the lowest priorities.
A fuller report will be issued in due course, which will include responses to points raised by the public. Some changes.......
Southgate District Civic Trust is hoping to enlist the support of local MP David Burrowes for a new Parliamentary grouping that will be seeking to ensure that the views of local communities are taken into account in the planning process.
The new All Party Parliamentary Group for Civic Societies has been set up in conjunction with Civic Voice, a national charity to which Southgate District Civic Trust (SDCT) is affliated. Its initial focus will be on the historic environment, in which.......
With the deadline for individual electoral registration looming (it's this Friday, 20th November), there are concerns that more than 10,000 Enfield residents might not register in time. Across all UK urban areas the missing names might be counted in the millions.
The numbers of voters registered in each constituency by 20th November will be used when redrawing the electoral map and the fear is that the missing names on electoral rolls will result in London and other big cities having.......