A 12-week consultation has begun giving residents an opportunity to give their views on proposals for cycle lanes along the A1010 between Ponders End and Freezy Water. Meanwhile, Enfield's Cabinet will this week be asked to approve the start of detailed design work for the southern section of the A1010.
A1010 North Consultation
Drawings of the proposals for the Ponders End - Freezy Water section are available online. It is possible to give your views using the Citizen Space.......
The "watchdog" organisation Healthwatch Enfield has issued its Annual Report for 2015/16.
Healthwatch defines its role as follows:
Healthwatch Enfield is the independent consumer champion for health and social care in the borough.
We’re here to amplify the voices of local people and to help them find the health and social care services that they need.
Everything we say and do is informed by our connections to local people. Our sole focus is on understanding the needs, positive.......
According to information on the Enfield Council website, opening hours at Palmers Green Library will be extended beginning in September this year.
Extended opening hours will be a feature of the "flagship libraries" that are being introduced as part of the council's libraries development concept. Unless previous plans have been revised - in view of continuing pressure for expenditure cuts, not out of the question - the flagship libraries will be opening seven days a week initially, .......
Recently published data show that the operator of the Great Northern services - Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) - was the worst performing rail operator in the UK during May 2016.
GTR's "performance and punctuality measure" for May (referred to as "Period 2") was 78.1% - representing the percentage of services which run and complete their journey "on time" (ie were less than five minutes late). This compares with 87% for May 2015. GTR also had the highest cancellation and significant.......
New opening hours at Bowes Road library from 4th July:
Monday: closedTuesday: 9am - 5.30pm (currently 2pm - 7pm)Wednesday: ClosedThursday: 9am - 5.30pm (currently 2pm - 7pm)Friday: 1pm - 5pm (currently closed all day)Saturday: 9am - 1pm (currently 9am - 5pm)
The changes introduce morning openings on Tuesdays and Thursdays and afternoon opening on Fridays, but do away with late afternoon/early evening openings and Saturday afternoon opening.
Southgate Circus library is moving.......
The campaign group SAVE has launched an online petition aimed at halting the demolition of a group of buildings in Charing Cross Road, including the former Foyles bookshop. The petition has so far been signed by nearly 5000 people.
SAVE issued the following press release on 15th June.
SAVE has today written to Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, requesting that he call in proposals to demolish a landmark site in the Soho Conservation Area for a.......
Enfield Libraries are launching the 2016 Summer Reading Challenge - The Big Friendly Read - on the green outside Enfield Town Library on Saturday 16th July. And they are still looking for volunteer Summer Reading Ambassadors.
The launch event is completely free and will feature local authors reading, performing and signing their books.
The Ambassador roles will be a great opportunity for people who would like to go into teaching or other types of work with children. To find out.......
The Spirals of Life final show of ceramic sculptures is now on in Broomfield Park conservatory. Most of the previous sculptures are back, with a few new ones (look out for the Venus baby-trap!).
A ceramic sculpture of a pitcher plant hanging among real pitcher plants in Broomfield ConservatoryIn addition, the work from the two ceramics workshops are being displayed. (Participants can collect their work next month from 3rd to 24th July, during normal opening hours.) There are also a couple of.......
Many readers will have noticed that there has been no noticeable reduction in the number of train cancellations on Great Northern. They mostly occur at weekends (when the service is nominally only half-hourly in the first place) and during school holidays, reflecting the fact the fact that the chronic shortage of drivers continues. Punctuality also continues to be extremely poor.
Govia Thameslink Railway, the company behind Great Northern, is a joint venture between the Go Ahead.......
A wildlife haven in Conway RecThe latest mini-film produced by Palmers Green Tales tells the story of how the pond in the recreation ground off Conway Road was restored by the Friends of Conway Rec. Following some repair work carried out by the council, the pond had become simply a barren stretch of water. The film describes the ingenious techniques used by the Friends to restore it to its former role as a wildlife haven.
An annual visitor is a female mallard, who hatches a brood of.......
Last Sunday more than 40 spectators witnessed the sudden death of a young man under the boughs of the Minchenden Oak after hearing about a mysterious premonition of his untimely end.
Medieval knights in the Minchenden Oak Garden Actors near the Minchenden Oak performing a play by Alex WoolfFollowing this the people gathered in the Oak Garden watched a fight between two knights wearing full medieval armour, with a detailed explanation of how the armour was manufactured and how it protects the.......
Change to Programme: Saturday 18th June, 7.30pm. This evening the Mary Lamb Lecture was to have been given by our MP, Kate Osamor.Kate was a friend of the MP Jo Cox who was murdered on Thursday, and quite understandably is unable to join us this evening. In place of the lecture, a local actor will be giving a reading of the essay which inspired our annual lecture, Mary Lamb's 'On Needlework'. You can read an excellent article about the importance of the essay here: .......