In the run up to the publication of the Government's Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, a new report from the Urban Transport Group (which represents the UK's largest urban transport authorities) sets out the fivefold economic benefits of investing in active travel.
Click here to download the full reportThe benefits are:
Health costs: physical inactivity is estimated to cost the NHS of £1.06 billion per year.
Economic value of trips: ten billion annual journeys are undertaken in.......
The latest video on Jenny Bourke's website Palmers Green Tales introduces us to Maxability, a rather unusual local charity which helps disabled adults maximise the development of their abilities.
The story told by Emil and Anita Woolf involves a house with a huge room, a monster grand piano that was played by Rachmaninoff, a series of top quality concerts and lectures and a Romanian pottery teacher.
Maxability website
Video on Palmers Green Tales.......
Suitable for children aged 5 to 8. Classes start on 7 January 2017 will be held at Vibe Studio, 125 Bowes Road, N13 4SB.
thebasementdancestudio.com/preparatory-ballet-lessons.html .......
A resident of Park Avenue in Palmers Green has set up an e-petition on the Enfield Council website asking for a barrier to be fitted at the entrance to an area of lock-up garages at the bottom of Park Avenue, near the footpath across the New River which gives access to Hazelwood Recreation Ground.
The petitioners are asking for a barrier to prevent access by flytippers and drug users to the area behind the brick wall
The petition reads:
We the undersigned petition the Council.......
The Friends of Broomfield Park’s annual service of remembrance for those who died in the two world wars and subsequent conflicts was held in the Garden of Remembrance in Broomfield Park on Friday, November 11. It was led by Rev. Chrichton Limbert, vicar of Christ Church, Southgate and was attended by Christine Hamilton, Deputy Mayor of Enfield, David Burrowes, MP for Southgate, Doug Taylor, Leader of the Council, Terry Neville, Leader of the Opposition, local councillors,.......
Palmers Green is pioneering the use of a Swedish smartphone app to help residents work together with Police and community groups to support each other and increase safety and security in the area, as well as decrease criminal activity. But don't worry if you haven't got a smartphone - you can also join in using any computer that's connected to the Web.
The Metropolitan Police have selected Enfield to pilot the Trygve app, which is now in use by the Palmers Green Ward Safer.......
Enfield Council has sent out a "neighbour letter" with information about how to comment on Berkeley Homes' planning application for development of Trent Park mansion and the former university campus.
The Council letter also asks anyone wishing to attend the public Planning Panel Meeting to register in advance and provide details of interests/questions.
Read the Trent Park Neighbour.......
Notting Hill Housing Trust will next week be exhibiting its proposals for further construction of new housing along the North Circular Road section of Bowes Road.
The development site is marked in red. The large roof to the right is the auditorium of the former Ritz Cinema. To the left, on the corner of Wilmer Way, are the newly built Notting Hill HT flats
Notting Hill Housing Trust will next week be exhibiting its proposals for further construction of new housing along the North Circular Road.......
The Mayor of London has published A City for All Londoners, outlining his vision of how to "respond positively to pressures on growth, celebrate diversity and unite".
This document sets out a direction for London, which the Mayor will later expand upon in detailed strategies, including:
land use and growth (the London Plan)
transport
housing
economic development
the environment
policing and crime
culture
health inequalities
The Mayor is consulting with stakeholder.......
Revised Proposals and Timetable
Summary and map on Cycle Enfield website
January 2017: Exhibition of revised proposals and community co-design workshops for enhanced public realm
Spring 2017: Statutory consultation to capture any final issues that may impact upon the design
Enfield Council has today revealed its revised proposals for implementing its Cycle Holland vision in the centre of Enfield Town.
The new scheme retains the existing one-way system for cars, buses and.......
Map created by Enfield Southgate Conservatives showing how Enfield Southgate would be divided up between neighbouring constituenciesThere doesn't seem to be much that the two parties on Enfield Council agree on these days, but the Parliamentary Boundary Commission's proposals for changes to Enfield constituencies have proved equally unpopular with both the ruling Labour Group and opposition Conservative Group. Though whether or not they both favour the same alternative is another question........
Enfield Council is urging staff, residents and politicians to support the North Enfield Foodbank. The Council is linking this call to Mitzvah Day, on which by Jewish tradition people give their time to help others. This year Mitzvah Day falls on 27th November.
Not that people are short of food only on one day a year. Over the last year the foodbank gave 5,807 three-day emergency food supplies to people in crisis. The reduction in the "benefits cap" which is currently.......