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News, comment and features
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A new U3A is being set up for the Palmers Green and Southgate area. An Open Meeting will be held on Wednesday 26th February at The Intimate Theatre, 521 Green Lanes, Palmers Green N13 4DH, starting at 2.30 pm. Doors will be open at 2.00 pm. This will be an opportunity to hear more about U3A and to find out about the interests of potential members.
U3A stands for University of the Third Age. It began in France in 1972 with U3As attached to existing universities. The core of the U3A in the UK,.......
An art exhibition opening later this month at the Dugdale Centre is not entitled Watch Out! for nothing. It will comprise some 20+ paintings by Moshe Galili, a Palmers Green resident and Holocaust survivor, who fears that a neo-Nazi movement currently developing in his native Hungary and elsewhere in the former Soviet bloc could revive some of the horrors that he himself lived through as a young man.
The Gun - one of the paintings in the exhibition. Click on the picture to read the story behind.......
A group which hopes to set up a two-form faith-based primary school in the Palmers Green/Edmonton area has published information about its project.
The Faith And Community School would open in September 2015 and would be state-funded in line with the government's Free Schools initiative. As a Muslim school it would place emphasis on teaching the Arabic language and learning about the Qur'an. However, one of the leading members of the project team is Irene Kay, a prominent Jewish.......
The third Southgate and Palmers Green Open Studios and Art Trail event will be held on 7th and 8th June 2014. As in previous years, artists and a designers will be exhibiting their work to members of the public - some in their own homes or studios, others in local shops.
Organiser Dan Maier is inviting creatives and shop owners to apply for inclusion in this year's Open Studios:
We're looking for original beautifully made work. We have an appreciative audience who've come to expect.......
Residents of Palmers Green are being consulted about the design of the clock which the Green Lanes Business Association (GLBA) intends to erect at Palmers Green Triangle.
There are two methods by which members of the public can voice their opinions:
by completing a brief online survey on this website - the questions refer not only to the planned clock, but also more generally to the future of the Triangle
by sending an email to the GLBA.
All survey responses on this website will be.......
Monthly reports have been issued by the Metropolitan Police Safer Neightbourhood Teams for Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill wards.
Highlights - Palmers Green
Brief details of operations to combat burglary and street theft
Monthly ward promises
List of burglaries in November
Advice for preventing burglaries from garages and garden sheds
Advice for preventing thefts of catalytic converters
Highlights - Winchmore Hill
Ward promises: targeting motor vehicle crime, anti-social.......
Palmers Green has another new website! The latest addition is Palmers Green Tales, created by a project team led by Jenny Bourke and including Suzanne Beard of Palmers Green Jewel in the North fame.
Palmers Green Tales will be recording the history of Palmers Green in both oral and visual form - presenting local people's memories in words and, wherever possible, including video clips of the interviews.
All the Tales on the website will feature people who have spent time in and around Palmers.......
The text of the byelaw banning spitting in the LBE is as follows:
The London Borough of Enfield
Byelaws made under section 235 of the Local Government Act 1972 by Council of the London Borough of Enfield for the good rule and government of the London Borough of Enfield and for the prevention and suppression of nuisances.
Application
1. This byelaw applies throughout the London Borough of Enfield.
2. No person shall spit in, into or from any relevant place without.......
Enfield Council is consulting residents about options for changing traffic behaviour in the area to the south of the North Circular Road and east of Green Lanes. This has been prompted by complaints from residents of Grenoble Gardens about the volume of traffic using their road and the queues that build up at the junction with Green Lanes.
These problems have arisen as the result of earlier changes - the introduction of one-way streets to the east of Green Lanes and the blocking of the left.......
Woodcroft Wildspace volunteer teams are continuing work to improve the former sports ground in Winchmore Hill which they have been converting into an area where people can take pleasure in nature, as well as learning about insects, birds, small mammals, pond life, plants and trees.
The Friends of Woodcroft Wildspace have been in existence since 2003 and now number 1000 members. Since 2004 they have been gradually working towards the plan shown on the map. Last year the future continuation of.......
Enfield Council's Youth Support Service is seeking volunteers to act as group facilitators for an innovative project designed to help young people make positive choices. The facilitators will be required for sessions on one afternoon a week for 13 weeks beginning on 12 March 2014.
The project is designed to help young people whose circumstances put them at risk of negative outcomes, for example, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, criminal activity, exclusion and categorisation as "NEETs" (Not in.......