Ahead of tomorrow's Cycle Enfield ("Mini-Holland") exhibition and consultation at the Fox (3pm to 8pm), Enfield Council have released a short video explaining the thinking behind the scheme.
The video also outlines further consultation stages.
To go to the YouTube pages, click on the picture above, or view the embedded video below........
After a very successful Sunday entertaining children with Floating Lanterns on the Model Boating Pond, the Friends of Broomfield Park are preparing to brief the public about the many projects that they are involved in.
A floating lantern on Broomfield Model Boating Pond - the new improved 2015 design impressed with its increased top speed!At their quarterly Open Meeting at the Ruth Winston Centre tonight (Monday) the Friends will report on developments in Broomfield Conservatory and the.......
Artist and Enfield resident John Salmon (see his YouTube channel here) has put together a fascinating and ingenious slide show of early photographs of Enfield Town, accompanied by sound track of contemporary background noises.
John adds the following written comments:
Experience what life may have been like in Enfield Town once photography was able to record interesting details and events which make our town what it is today.
I’ve been collecting local photographs from the internet for.......
Residents in Grange Ward are being sent a questionnaire by the Enfield & North Policing Team which is designed to measure public support for a proposal to install closed circuit TV cameras in police vans. As the subject of this questionnaire is clearly relevant throughout the Metropolitan Police area, we are reproducing it here and suggest that responses should be sent to the Safer Neighbourhoods Team for whichever ward you live in (see the list of teams on this page).
Dear all,.......
The Palmers Greenery Community Café in Broomfield Park is looking to recruit some additional volunteers for the Spring. If you have a few hours each week OR every month to spare and you would like to be a part of this exciting project, the Greenery holding a training session on the afternoon of Sunday 8th March.
Please email to register your interest.
The Palmers Greenery has been a great success since it opened in August 2014. It is an entirely.......
The latest addition to Green Lanes brings a touch of France to Palmers Green. Le Grand Jour, which opened today, is the brainchild of a patissier with extensive experience working in the south of France, including Marseille and Avignon. The name means "Broad Daylight", but also carries suggestions of "Great Day".
The last business to occupy the site on the corner of Green Lanes and Devonshire Road was a betting shop with a distinctly uninviting interior. Its replacement is a.......
Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group is running two events regarding plans to combine the delivery of health services and social care services. They would like to draw on the experiences of people who
Are 65 years old or older (or care for someone that is)
Use health and/or social care services regularly (GP, Social Care, Occupational Services, District Services etc.)
Have attended Accident and Emergency Services recently; or
Have been admitted to hospital recently.
Event details.......
A series of ten sessions covering a range of different everyday cookery skills is being offered for free at the Ruth Winston Centre. The lessons are being funded by Keep Warm Keep Safe money provided by Enfield Council. The teachers will be chefs from Southgate College.
Among the skills that will be covered are:
Using Cheaper Cuts Of Meat
Fish
Vegetarian Recipes
International Cooking
Alternative Cooking For Allergy Suffers
Healthy Diets
Cooking With Offal
Homemade Soups.......
The Southgate Green Association (SGA) is asking members of the public to object to an application to erect a 15 metre high mobile phone mast on the grass verge outside the Southgate Beaumont building in Cannon Hill. The following text is taken from the SGA website:
An application has been made for the installation of a telephone mast and four ancillary cabinets on the verge opposite the junction of Cannon Hill and Selborne Road, outside the Southgate Beaumont. Jan 2015
The mast.......
Now in its fourth year, Emerging Writers’ Week continues to grow and diversify, driven by the wealth of new writing nurtured within the Chickenshed Writers’ Group. The week will showcase an array of new work as well as two longer pieces as cornerstones to the evening: Blackton Back in Action and The Devil's Music. Along with the programme in the Studio each night there will also be Offstage fringe events taking place in and around the building before and after the evening performance:.......
Friends of Broomfield Park are looking for volunteers to help them launch their latest project - creating a Community Growing Space on an area next to Broomfield Community Orchard.
A typical growing space
The Friends recently reached agreement with Enfield Council to take over an area of the Park measuring.......
The owners of Palmers Green bus garage, Arriva London ("a DB Company" - ie owned by the German state railways), have applied for planning permission to demolish two buildings next to the garage (to its east) and use the land as an open-air bus park. However, there are no plans to expand the number of buses which are housed at the garage - the maximum number will remain at 69. This number of buses is in fact rather too many for the size of the building, meaning that manoeuvring of buses.......