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News, comment and features
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Next week at the Bernie Grant Centre composer and musician Juwon Ogungbe presents Ignatius Inspires - two nights of music and dance celebrating the extraordinary life and work of Ignatius Sancho (1729-1780).
Born on a slave ship, Ignatius Sancho went on to become a prolific writer and composer. He is the first black Briton known to have voted in a Parliamentary election and was the first African writer to have his work published in Britain.Ignatius Inspires features rare recitals of.......
Better Streets for Enfield have posted some comments about the Fox Lane Quieter Neighbourhood proposals on their website (republished below). These are not yet finalised, they may take on board any useful comments.
Fox Lane Quieter Neighbourhood plans
The Fox Lane Quieter Neighbourhood consultation is open, showing some innovative and promising ideas. You can see the plans and respond here, while the technical drawings are here – the closing date is 26 November.
The map in the Fox.......
Following a public consultation earlier this year about proposals to change the charging formula for providing adult social care, Enfield Council has decided not to implement any changes at present. Instead it will "take a longer and more in depth look at how best to ensure fairness in our charging policy and use of resources".
The changes that the council was consulting on would have affected people who require overnight care, for some of whom the charges made by the council would.......
Enfield Council is consulting about residents' views on how to prioritise its budget spending in 2018/19. The deadline for responding is 8 January 2018.
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Budget consultation 2018/19
We are launching the Budget Consultation for 2018/19 and we want to hear your views and priorities.
Since 2010 we have saved £161m. We need to make further £35m of savings by 2018/19.
This year, we will spend around £1bn on public services. Much of this amount.......
The Friends of the Lakes Estate Conservation Area have submitted an objection to the planning application by Star Pubs and Bars and the Lateral Property Group to redevelop the Fox pub and its car park. This follows a few days after an objection was submitted by Talkies Community Cinema.
Artist's impression of the proposed Fox Lane block: "crude and unattractive ... its brutality is reinforced by the eight balconies and five double height windows set within further rectangular 'frames'"Like.......
Do you know women who worked in industry and manufacture in Enfield? If so, you could help artist Rachael Nee in a new lottery-funded project that she has just embarked on. Rachael will be collecting stories and pictures that will contribute towards a new publication, website and exhibition - Enfield Making History - Women at Work: Then and Now.
Last month Rachael began a 12-week term as Artist-in-Residence at Building BloQs, located at Meridian Water, Edmonton. Building BloQs.......
Details of proposed measures to create the Fox Lane Quieter Neighbourhood were published this morning. Like last week's plans for the Fernleigh Road QN, they take a holistic approach to reducing vehicle speeds along side roads throughout the large area covered, which stretches from Palmers Green Triangle nearly all the way to Southgate Circus.
Some of the traffic calming measures are familiar from the three previous QN proposals: speed humps (confined to Fox Lane itself), road.......
How the Fox development would look from Green Lanes - an artist's impression from the planning applicationAhead of consideration by the Enfield Planning Committee of the planning application for redevelopment of the Fox pub, which is expected soon, an objection has been submitted by Talkies Community Cinema. The grounds are that the proposed replacement of the function room by a smaller "flexible space" would jeopardise the Fox's status as a registered Asset of Community Value........
At its meeting on 18th October, Councillor Dinah Barry updated Enfield Council's Cabinet on the situation regarding the future of Broomfield House. Below we reproduce the relevant section of the draft minutes of the Cabinet meeting, along with a commentary by Colin Younger, Chair of the Broomfield House Trust.
Excerpt from draft minutes of Cabinet meeting on 18 October 2017
BROOMFIELD HOUSE
Councillor Dinah Barry (Associate Cabinet Member - Enfield West) gave a verbal update to Members.......
Consultations are currently under way for four minor proposals that form part of the Cycle Enfield scheme:
A short section of cycle track at the junction of Bury Street West and Church Street designed to provide a safe link between the main A105 cycle lanes and the new Quietway running alongside the Salmons Brook (deadline for responses 12th November)
Bike hangars in three locations (deadline for responses 13th November).
Bury Street West/Church Street
The proposal is to provide a.......
Patrick Samuel - one of the artists involved in Enfield's bid for cultural recognition
An exhibition of work by Palmers Green artist Patrick Samuel will launch Enfield Council's bid for the borough to become a "London Borough of Culture".
Patrick's show, Escape and Return, runs at the Dugdale Centre from 7th November until 2nd December. Earlier this year we published an article written by Patrick - a moving story of how taking up art turned his life around.
The London Borough of Culture.......