VOLUNTEERS! Needed for the overnight shift on the Enfield Churches WInter Night Shelter at @AllSaintsN9 Email
The night shelter will be operating at seven churches in the borough for thirteen weeks starting on 4th.......
The minutes of the planning panel to discuss the redevelopment proposals for Trent Park mansion and former university campus are now available on the council website and include some useful information about the project.
The purpose of the meeting was to receive a briefing on the proposals, to provide local residents and other interested parties the opportunity to ask questions about the application and for the applicants, officers and Panel Members to listen to the reactions and comments........
Waltham Forest's "village" traffic management schemes have been highly successful. Hopefully, Enfield's road planners will be equally ambitious when they restart work on Quieter Neighbourhoods.
As 2016 draws to a close it's good to see work finally under way to restore to people the freedom to travel along Green Lanes by bicycle safely and securely - a freedom that has been increasingly denied for the past fifty or sixty years. Of all ways of travelling, apart from walking,.......
"It stands to reason that trains are large and heavy, whilst leaves are small and light, so leaves can’t stop a train."
"It stands to reason that trains have solid metal wheels, so trains can’t get ‘flat tyres.’"
Well, you might think so, but you'd be wrong (though since tube train wheels don't actually have tyres, you'd be strictly speaking right about the second point).
For a highly detailed discussion of the problems afflicting the Piccadilly Line.......
Enfield Council's Planning Committee will next week be asked to approve a change of use application which will permit the operation of a gymnasium in part of the Palmers Green Library that was previously earmarked for use as a GP surgery.
The application to be considered at the meeting on 20th December has the following heading:
LOCATION: Southgate Town Hall, 251 Green Lanes, N13 4XE
PROPOSAL: Change of use of part of ground floor and basement from health centre / doctors surgery (use class.......
Want to make a difference?
Have you thought about becoming a charity trustee and helping your community?
We need local people with a range of skills and life experience to join our board.
This volunteering role can fit in with work, as meetings are in the evenings.
Join us at an event in Enfield on 26/1/17.
Please email for more information.
www.enfieldcab.org.uk/recruitment-day-216.html.......
Myddleton Road, Bowes Park, has won the London section of the 2016 Great British High Street of the Year awards.
This winner is an example of the power of local people and business areas working together to support their area. The community has rallied around their local high street- putting on a range of events, working with local partners such as the school and have created a really strong online presence through Twitter and local online forums and using their We Love Myddleton Road.......
Topics on the agenda for the meeting of Southgate Ward Forum on 14th December include complaints about the recently relocated Southgate Library, the status of the proposal to build a new primary school adjacent to Grovelands Park and planting of flower beds around Southgate Station.
More information about the specific concerns about these three topics (and others) can be found in the draft minutes of the September ward forum meeting.
Southgate Ward Forum
Wednesday, 14th December, 2016 7.30.......
Far From the Western Front: South Asian Stories of the First World War (free entry)
26 November 2016 – 15 January 2017: open daily from 11am
Karamel Gallery, Coburg Road, Wood Green, London, N22 6UJ
southasiansoldiers.org.uk
An exhibition about the men and women who shaped the First World War stories
Exhibition from 26 November 2016 – 15 January 2017, London.
Working in partnership, Wood Green-based organisations the Council of Asian People and Collage Arts present.......
Surveyors working with London Wildlife Trust’s Water for Wildlife project spotted a pair of willow emerald damselflies whilst looking for dragonflies and damselflies in Clissold Park, Hackney, in late September. By tracking such insects the project is mapping out the health of London’s freshwater ecosystems.
Research volunteer Sonja Todd spotted the male and female willow emerald damselfly in reeds growing in the New River in the park.
Read the full story on the London Wildlife.......
Enfield Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have been using Twitter to advertise online surveys for each of the wards in the borough. Each survey is different, asking whether residents are concerned about specific reported hotspots where there have been reports of "anti-social behaviour" and crime.
Surveys for wards in and around Palmers Green
Palmers Green
Bowes
Southgate Green
Winchmore Hill
Southgate
Cockfosters.......
Broomfield Home Owners' and Residents' Association (BHORA) have posted to their website the presentation boards used by Notting Hill Housing at last month's consultation about their ideas for developing two sites just to the west of Ritz Parade (see this earlier report).
Site 1. The large building to its right is the auditorium of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses (originally the Ritz cinema). To the left are the existing buildings on Site 2.
The two plans reproduced here show the.......