The Consortium of Friends of Enfield's Parks has launched a public campaign in opposition to Enfield Council's plan to leave pedestrian gates to parks unlocked overnight.
The Consortium is asking people to sign an online petition which reads as follows:
Enfield Council is planning to withdraw all night locking from 22 parks in the borough. If implemented,the pedestrian gates of those parks that have always been locked would be left open all night.
This decision has caused alarm amongst local.......
The Pinkham Way Alliance is appealing to the public to support its campaign to prevent the building of waste processing facilities in Pinkham Wood (next to the North Circular in New Southgate, just past the railway bridge).
The Alliance has sent the following email to its supporters and is asking for wider support from the community:
Haringey's Sites Allocation (SA) consultation is underway; please sign up now in support of the PWA response.
This is vital to our campaign. It will determine.......
Twice a year the Mayor of London and members of the London Assembly hold a People's Question Time session in a different part of the capital. On 19th March the venue will be the Dominion Centre in Wood Green High Road.
The Dominion Centre is now used as a church, but started life as a magnificent cinema and still has the wording Gaumont Palace in huge letters on top of the frontage. This was its original name - later it became just the Gaumont, then the Odeon and then Mecca Bingo........
Enfield Council is running a public consultation to gauge views about an application for funding for improvements to children's play facilities in three local parks.
Hazelwood Recreation Ground, Tatem Park and Grovelands Park Play Areas
The Friends of Hazelwood Recreation Ground, Tatem Park and Grovelands Park are proposing to improve the play areas in these parks and they need your help to apply for funding. The groups are looking for people’s views and comments on the current play.......
With the General Election coming up on May 7th, there's never been a better time to get involved and find out what your local election candidates think about the policies that affect you.
Come along to Breast Cancer Question Time at Ruth Winston House on Wednesday 15th April to hear more and ask your own questions.
The event will begin at 18:00 with refreshments and the Question and Answer session starting promptly at 18:30.
Do you have questions about Breast Cancer Question Time -.......
The Council has a duty under the legislation to put in place proposals for the preservation and enhancement of its conservation areas. As part of this duty the Council is reviewing the Conservation Area Appraisals and Management Proposals for its 22 conservation areas in three phases.
This means that the existing Appraisals and Management Proposals have come, or are coming, to the end of their five-year life span. Through the review changes in the conservation areas can be reflected and new.......
Sessions all within the timeframe 7th April to 27th June.
From art to animals, history to horticulture and business to building, EnfieldThinks has something for everyone!
The project is supported by Birkbeck, University of London; Enfield Council; Barnet & Southgate College; Capel Manor College; The College of Haringey, Enfield & North East London and Christian Action Housing.
We aim to promote the range of educational options available in Enfield and beyond. We want to raise the.......
The Friends of Hazelwood Recreation Ground are currently preparing a funding application to a charitable foundation for £50,000 to improve the playground in the Rec, including installing new play equipment.
In order to succeed, it is necessary for the Friends to consult local residents and users of the recreation ground and demonstrate that the new equipment is needed and that the project has public support.
Enfield Council has set up a web page for the consultation and members of the public.......
This year's spring production by FFBOS is a radical retelling of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, The Mikado. Retitled Hot Mikado, this musical story brings a modern twist to the popular tale about the wandering minstrel Nanki-Poo and his love for the fair maid Yum-Yum. Expect hot jazz solos, big swing numbers and sharp zoot suits, as FFBOS brings this fantastic show to life. This toe-tappingly fun show will be coming to the Intimate Theatre in Palmers Green, for one week only, so.......
Palmers Green residents who are angry with the wholesale removal of trees from a trackside cutting have begun sending messages of protest to a Network Rail manager.
Complaints relate to a section of track adjacent to the Fox Lane bridge. On the western side of the cutting absolutely all trees and bushes have been removed along the section of track next to the new "Palmadium" housing development. Quite apart from the visual impact, there will be an obvious severe affect on wildlife.......
Date: 7th/8th and 14th March
Location: Palmers Green & Southgate (various locations)
Details: Local residents are needed to help turn Palmers Green yellow for Marie Curie Cancer Care's Great Daffodil Appeal!
Collections are taking place in the area on weekends in March and all funds raised will go to the Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead and to fund local Marie Curie nurses.
Marie Curie provides high quality end of life care for north Londoners with cancer and other terminal illnesses, in.......
On Thursday 12th March, from 1pm to 4pm, Enfield Town Market will play host to an unusual visitor - a KinoVan (or should that be "the KinoVan"?)
The KinoVan - a "cinema on wheels" - will be showing cine clips illustrating how the borough has changed over the past hundred years. And various experts, such as film archivist Louise Pankhurst, will be there to tell people about the borough's film history.
The KinoVan belongs to Film London - London's Film Archives and its visit is part of a.......