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News, comment and features
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The Pinkham Way Alliance has now published the response it submitted to the consultation about the North London Waste Plan. Following a fundraising campaign, the Alliance was able to employ a planning consultancy, Turley, to present arguments against the allocation of Pinkham Wood as a potential site for waste processing, and, more generally, to question the draft Waste Plan's assumptions about future waste volumes and required processing throughput.
The Response and associated.......
Healthwatch Enfield has published data about the results of "Friends and Family Test" questionnaires submitted by patients attending GP practices in the borough. The data summarises responses for the nine months since the Test was introduced for GP practices.
The Test asks patients to answer the following question: ‘How likely are you to recommend our service to friends and family if they need similar care or treatment?’
Unfortunately, because of the low number of.......
The Metropolitan Police have published a leaflet with advice about how to protect the contents of your garden shed. This is in response to a significant increase in thefts from sheds in recent months.
IT'S NOT ONLY GREEN FINGERED PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN YOUR GARDEN
What can you do?
SHEDS AND OTHER SMALL BUILDINGS
Many people take a great deal of trouble securing their house and the property within it. At the same time leaving valuable property in a shed which is either unlocked.......
If you're not a regular visitor to Palmers Green Jewel in the North (and if not, why not?) you may have missed Sue Beard's series of reports on work done by her and others to identify "built heritage" that merits Local Listing (see this earlier report).
Part of The Market shopping parade in Green Lanes, built by Arthur SykesAs part of this grand effort to document interesting buildings, Sue has been allocated a pretty large area to survey - east of the railway line, including central Palmers.......
The new (but actually old) railings in front of Broomfield Conservatory were officially inaugurated on 29th September. A ceremonial "ribbon" holding the new gates together was cut (using secateurs, of course) by Tony Dey of the Enfield Society.
Tony Dey cuts the "ribbon" with help from David Burrowes MP. Looking on are Elizabeth Dobbie, Chair of the Friends of Broomfield Park's Conservatory Group, and Alison Trew from the Enfield Council, who administers the Enfield.......
The deadline for letting the Council have your views about the A105 component of Cycle Enfield is fast approaching - the online questionnaire must be completed by 9th October. If you want to comment on every stretch of road, the process could take a while, so don't leave it to the last minute. There is plenty of information available on the Cycle Enfield website, and we have published several articles with information in easily digested form.
The approaching deadline has prompted.......
The first of a new series of lectures organized by the Friends of Christ Church, Southgate, takes place next Wednesday, 7 October, at the church on The Green, N14 7EG. These talks are intended to mark the 400th anniversary of Christian worship on the site by featuring people associated with Southgate in general and the church in particular.
A page from an 1815 Figgins specimen bookOn Wednesday the church is extremely privileged to have secured the services of Professor James Mosley, one of the.......
Palmers Green's own community market, MarketN13, has now been operating for six months. Starting this month, it will be introducing some new and notable local suppliers, collecting for North Enfield Foodbank and switching to monthly operation.
MarketN13 founder Annita Correia describes the changes:
"We hope everyone is enjoying the revamped, renewed Sunday Market in Palmers Green N13, which launched in March this year.
"We want to let everyone know that from October, we will.......
A campaign has been launched in opposition to Enfield Council's plan to make money-saving changes to the operation of the Museum and Archive Services (see this earlier article).
'Enfield 229' or the "Unofficial Friends of Museum and Archive Services" have issued a four-page bulletin outlining their fears about the impact of the proposed changes. They accuse the Council of a lack of frankness about the proposals, in particular the failure to mention that four and a half experienced.......
Cohousing Muswell Hill extend an invitation to their monthly meetings to anyone interested in this way of living - well established in some European countries, but a new concept in the UK.
Woodside Square (old St Luke's) in Muswell Hill N10 is moving on apace with hospital buildings demolished and a start made on a marketing suite and show flat. Our cohousing community's buildings are projected to be completed early 2017. Early Bird discount available. Our cohousing group is also growing.......
The second stage of public consultation for the Enfield Town and Southbury Road elements of the Cycle Enfield scheme was launched last weekend. Detailed drawings are available online and residents are invited to fill in an online questionnaire to provide their views about the scheme
The various options for Enfield Town have been whittled down to two - Options 1 and 6a. Both would see through car traffic - both east-west and west-east - using Cecil Road, which would be converted to.......
Healthwatch Enfield Chair, Deborah Fowler, has written to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, Jane Ellison MP, to convey Healthwatch Enfield’s concern over the potential impact on people in Enfield of both the overall planned cuts in funding for public health and also the intended distribution of those cuts.
The letter reads as follows:
Dear Ms Ellison MP,
Concern Over Cuts to Public Health
I am writing to express Healthwatch Enfield’s.......