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News, comment and features
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The driver of this car had a lucky escape just before 4am this morning when he managed to overturn his vehicle in Park Avenue (Palmers Green), close to the junction with Green Lanes.
Francis Sealy lives close by and heard an "almighty crash". He says that the driver appeared to have hit at least two cars parked along Park Avenue. Fortunately, he was wearing a seat belt.
Photos: Francis Sealy.......
Lots of new and exciting initiatives sprout up in North London, it seems. One that seems to have inspired a number of people is a proposed development on the old St Luke’s Hospital site in Muswell Hill. "Cohousing Woodside" has taken its name from the road running immediately south of the site, where the hospital is currently being demolished. We are a group of potentially thirty households who will live on the leafy north-west corner of a scheme being built mostly for.......
Many people run, swim or cycle to raise money for charity, a few people do two out of three of these things and even fewer combine all three, but one grandmother who does is 72-year-old Eddie Brocklesby, Britain's oldest competing "Ironman" triathlete. And she only took up sport when she was over 50!
Eddie, who recently was listed in the Independent on Sunday’s 100 Happy List 2015, said: "I only started running when I was 50, and competing in triathlons when I was sixty-two. You're never.......
The next round of public consultation about the Cycle Enfield ("Mini-Holland") scheme for the A105 will start with an exhibition in July. There will then be a 12-week period in which members of the public can give their views online or on paper.
Cycle Enfield West timetable
Business Event – 16th July 2015Public Exhibition - 17th & 18th July 2015Public Consultation - 17th July to 9th Oct 2015 (12 weeks)"Pop-up" at Palmers Green Triangle - AugustStall at Palmers Green Festival.......
The rather mysterious "Palmers Scream" website has information about a story writing competition for local 8 to 12-year olds:
"Whether about the Bogwarts of Bounds Green, the witches of Winchmore Hill, the spookiness of Southgate, apparitions of Arnos or the phantoms of Palmers Green, we want you to create a story that we will all enjoy!"
There are some excellent prizes and the first fifty entries will receive a copy of the Spooky Tales of Palmers Green book.
Some of the stories from the book.......
Following statement appeared was posted on the Enfield Council websitewebsite and dated 17th June.
Enfield Council sets up Trent Park Mansion Working Group
The Council has set up a cross party councillor Working Group to work with the Receiver tasked with finding a buyer for the Trent Park Mansion building. The Group will be meeting the Receiver shortly to emphasise that the views of the local community should be taken into account in any development proposals that come forward in the future........
Residents of Park Avenue (Palmers Green) and nearby streets are angry about the disgraceful and insanitary rubbish which has been left strewn on the ground in one of the mews alleys at the back of Green Lanes - the mews on the south side of Park Avenue. Neither the landlord, residents or council have made any attempt to clear up the mess, which has now been there for about a fortnight.
This alley and the one opposite are well known for their overflowing waste bins, but the problem now.......
Mike McClean, organiser of the Save the Green Dragon campaign, is asking supporters to reply to a survey being run by the pub's new owners, Green Lanes Investments. Mike's message is reproduced below.
Friends,
The developers who currently own the Green Dragon pub have, via their PR Company, started to distribute promotional material around the local area which is intended to try and gain some support for their plan to end 300 years of Winchmore Hill history for their own.......
Seven-day opening of Palmers Green Library is one of the innovations that will be introduced if Enfield Council agrees to a proposed Library Development Strategy for 2015 to 2018.
The Strategy will be among the subjects to be discussed at this week's meeting of Enfield's Cabinet. If agreed by the Cabinet, it will be presented to the full Council for its approval later this year.
Palmers Green Library as it will look when it reopens later this year. Under the new strategy it will be open.......
On 15 June the Cycle Enfield West Partnership Board will for the first time be able to discuss some specific proposals for the implementation of cycling improvements between Enfield Town and Palmers Green, using "Mini-Holland" money provided by Transport for London.
Members of the Partnership Board, which comprises representatives of many different community and interest groups, have been sent the draft designs for the changes to roads and pavements.
Making sense of the drawings requires.......
"Inside Job"Southgate Photographic Society are currently holding their 73rd annual Prints and Projections exhibition. This year the exhibition is different from usual in two respects: there are no projections, only prints; and instead of being hidden away in a hall, the pictures are out in the street for all to see. And this year's exhibition is likely to be seen by many more people than usual, as, thanks to Transport for London, it adorns the elegant curved windows of an.......
As we reported last week, Enfield Council in conjunction with the Enfield Society and Historic England are planning to recruit and train local community groups and individuals to help with a project to create a comprehensive new local list of heritage assets in the borough. The training will enable volunteers to identify buildings and structures that are worthy of listing.
An example of our local built heritage: the King's Head in Enfield Town (photograph courtesy of the Enfield Society).......