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On the afternoon of Friday 21st March the Southgate Beaumont care home on Cannon Hill will be hosting an exhibition of paintings by Regina Skrida, inspired by the beautiful landscapes of her native Lithuania.

Artists have until 21st March to submit entries to the third Enfield Community Art Exhibition, which will be held in Palmers Green in June, in the revamped Devonshire Square and at Arbeit Studios off Green Lanes.

Enfield Council has dropped its plans to create a controlled parking zone in 'Palmers Green East'. The results of a public consultation held last year indicated overwhelming opposition to the proposal, while a residents' group opposed to the CPZ and another planned for Arnos Grove had threatened legal action, claiming that that the proposals were unlawful.

Local campaigners opposed to proposals for housebuilding on countryside in the north of Enfield borough were among the first to hear about an appeal today to the mayor of London to abandon plans for a review of the Green Belt and instead tackle the 'real causes' of the housing crisis.

PG resident Steve Acroyd has been undergoing expensive treatment for a rare type of brain cancer. He's made tremendous progress, thanks to generour donations from others, but the money is running out. A 'big fat raffle' offers you the chance to win some excellent prizes, and Steve the chance to continue to get better.

On Monday 3rd October a bridge in Enfield Town will be formally named after a much missed local cat.

Winchmore String Orchestra's spring newsletter whets our appetites for the feast of Nordic music that they will be laying on in Southgate on Saturday 5th April.

Local residents and businesses are being invited to become involved in 'stewarding' Devonshire Square once it reopens in the spring. There will be a public meeting updating people about plans for the square on Tuesday 4th March.

Despite last Tuesday's decision by Enfield Council to grant planning permission to Tottenham Hotspur to fence off a large section of Whitewebbs Park for a women's football training centre, campaigners against the deal gathered on Sunday morning at Whitewebbs for a combined protest and nature walk.

A revised draft of the Enfield Council Library Strategy has seen only one library removed from the list of proposed cuts. Winchmore Hill, Southgate and Bowes Road are still faced with closure, but Oakwood will now stay open.

A petition signed by people living in the Bowes Primary Area Quieter Neighbourhood demanding an additional access point by car to their streets was debated at Monday's meeting of Enfield Council's scrutiny committee.

In the face of a significant spike in pedestrian deaths on London's roads, road danger reduction campaigners are calling on the Metropolitan Police to pay significantly more attention to reducing road danger and eliminating casualties on the capital's roads. You too can join them in responding to a consultation on crime and policing which ends this Wednesday.