Message from Enfield Council.
Despite having already made £75million of savings over the last four years Enfield Council now needs to find a further £80million savings over the next four years. By 2017/18, Enfield’s funding from central government will have been reduced by a further 25% meaning that, like most local authorities, Enfield is facing its toughest financial challenge to date.
We would like to invite you to attend one of our focus groups where you can find out about the services.......
The Quieter Neighbourhoods schemes which Enfield Council are planning will use various "traffic calming" measures, the aim of which is to reduce traffic accidents, encourage walking and cycling by reducing the stress associated with heavy or fast traffic, and generally make life pleasanter for people living, walking or cycling along residential streets away from main roads.
Traffic calming is not universally popular - concerns include noise and damage to cars allegedly caused by speed humps and.......
24th January – 21st March (8 weeks not inc. Saturday 7th March)
Ages
5-8yrs 10am – 11am
9-12yrs 11.15am – 12.15pm
Cost:
Pay As You Go: £6 per session (Termly Membership: pre-register for all 8 workshops for a 25% discount).
Saturday Shed gives a great opportunity for young people to develop their performance skills using our proven teaching methods and unique performance style. Led by our highly experienced and energetic staff, each session will involve.......
Chickenshed Community Chorus - an ongoing series of vocal sessions at which you can develop your singing skills as part of an ensemble and learn a number of arrangements. Sessions are led by Jo Collins – Chickenshed’s Director of Music.
The next series of workshops starts on Wednesday 21st January and runs until Wednesday 25th February 2015 (fiveweeks not including Wednesday 4th February)
Time: 6.30-8.30pm
Cost: £7.50 each session
Age: 21+
Running Time: 2 hours.
The.......
After the success of their last show Mack & Mabel. Finchley & Friern Barnet Operatic Society are soon to begin work on their next adventure on stage, Hot Mikado. A modern day adaptation of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado - expect Zoot Suits instead of Kimonos and hot jazz numbers instead of the traditional operatic fare and a whole lot more!
If you're interested in being part of the Hot Mikado, you're invited to an Introductory Evening on Wednesday 26th November, or if you can't.......
The initial consultation stage has now begun for two "Quieter Neighbourhood" schemes covering a large swathe of residential streets extending from the Cambridge Roundabout in the south east almost as far as Southgate Circus in the north west (though excluding Green Lanes, which runs between the two areas).
Consultation began last month for the Wolves Lanes Quieter Neighbourhood, which lies south of the Connaught Gardens QN, separated from it by the North Circular Road.
Click on the map to.......
Are you over 60? Are you 16-23?
If so, join us for exciting FREE performance workshops leading to a 15 minute performance event at Bernie Grant Arts Centre.
The workshops are linked to the only Tottenham performance of a new play, The Honey Man by Tyrone Huggins, touring from Birmingham REP.
No previous performance necessary – workshops will be fun and based around the lives and stories of the participants. All welcome.
First introductory workshop
No obligation but if you want to.......
Enfield Council is consulting residents about proposals for a radical restructuring of its current library service. The changes are designed to reduce the costs of library services - Enfield is having to contend with a cut of £80 million in the amount of funding it receives from central government - through greater concentration of resources, while at the same time providing library services across the borough and modernising the types of service that are available.
The consultation asks.......
Paul Rogers, Programme Manager for Cycle Enfield in Enfield Council's Planning, Highways and Transportation division, has provided the following high level programme dates for the A105 Enfield Town to Palmers Green.
Activity
Start Date
Finish Date
Preliminary design
13/11/14
22/04/15
Modelling
17/07/14
08/07/15
Consultation
27/11/14
04/11/15
Scheme approval
20/08/15
16/12/15
Detailed design.......
Ask your average music-lover to name half-a-dozen Germanic or Italian or Russian composers and he or she will rattle off a list with ease. But Scandinavian composers? Hmm. Well, Sibelius, of course, and Grieg, then, let's see, Nielsen, er ......
On the cold northern fringe of Europe, Scandinavia tends not to be thought of as a fully paid-up part of the continent's culture, at least as far as classical music is concerned. Except for the justly well-known Sibelius and Grieg, concert planners.......
Having posted some notes on the street redesign in the Turnpike Lane/West Green area. I went down this morning to take a look at the work. I still not sure how relevant this is to the Fox Lane area Quiet Neighbourhood sscheme, basically because the street plan is so different. However the individual elements may be of some interest. These are the subject of the attached photos which can be related to the original plan included in the earlier posting.
One thought arises is that if Fox Lane was.......
The organisers of the 2014 St Nicholas Fair still have a few vacancies for stallholders.
As before, the Fair will be held on Winchmore Hill Green, starting at 11am on Saturday 13th December and running through until 7pm.
If you're interested in having a stall or pitch at the Fair, all the relevant details and an application form are online.
To get an idea of the kind of buzz that the Fair has created in the past, watch this video:.......