The Pinkham Way Alliance is urging people to sign online in support of its response to the draft North London Waste Plan (NLWP). Their submission calls for removal of the Pinkham Way nature conservation site (close to the Enfield/Barnet/Haringey borough boundaries) from a list of potential sites for new waste processing facilities.
A group of parents have set up a crowdfunding appeal in order to raise money to take legal action against the decision by Walker Primary School to join the Ivy Learning Trust academy group.
The Mayor is hosting a Mayor’s Vintage Awards Day at Salisbury House, Edmonton, on the 20th April 2019 between 10am to 10pm with free admission. She is inviting residents to nominate people who deserve to be recognised for their outstanding contribution, achievements to community life, or their commitments to serving and helping others
Vehicle Idling Action is a London-wide behaviour change campaign which is helping to reduce localised air pollution caused by motorists who leave their engines running when parked. It is holding an Idling Action Day this Friday (29th March) outside Walker School in Waterfall Road, Southgate, and needs more volunteers to help run the event
International academic journal Cities and Health has published a case-study of the grassroots street play movement, written by Playing Out co-founder Alice Ferguson. The paper sets out the importance of street play for children, the reasons for its decline and the arguments for restoring it as part of everyday life, as well as the recent history of play streets in the UK and beyond
The London Living Streets group has been working with Transport for London to introduce a programme of crossing retimings that will make it easier and safer to cross the street - one crossing on the priority list is in Palmers Green. A new Living Streets group launches in Wood Green on 24th March.
Newly published traffic count data for a second residential street in the Fox Lane neighbourhood confirms what its residents know only too well - that up to 400 vehicles an hour are using it as a cut-through and that, even though the street is short and has a sharp bend, there is widespread disregard for the speed limit.
The Big Choir is a group of enthusiastic singers who fundraise for research into 200 different types of cancer. We are singers of all ages, abilities and backgrounds and welcome anyone who just loves to sing.
