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News, comment and features
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This month's Safer Neighbourhoods News for Palmers Green ward has details of recorded crimes during May and advice on preventing burglaries and car thefts........
One hundred days to the 2014 Palmers Green Festival and plans are well underway. This year’s Festival will have more music, more children’s activities, more stalls, more lovely international food and drinks and be even more fun!
The Festival is organised entirely by volunteers for the benefit of the local community – now we need to recruit more volunteers who can help out on the day.
Festival Volunteer Coordinator Veronica Trew, explains: “On the day of the Festival we need lots.......
Saturday sees the start of the first ever Lamb Festival, a week of free events in All Saints Church, Edmonton, to commemorate the lives and work of Edmonton's most celebrated literary siblings - Charles and Mary Lamb.
All the events are free (though donations are welcomed). They include:
a new puppet play about the Lambs
a recital of music produced by composers who struggled with their mental health. With Anna Tilbrook and three members of the Keats Quartet.
an illustrated talk
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This year's Open Studios and Arts Trail includes four free craft workshops, three of which will give you a chance to try for yourself.
Bookbinding in Broomfield Conservatory
7 June 1.30-3.30pm and 4-6pm - booking essential (cost of materials £5). Click for details.
Graphic window art at Printfields
7 June 10am - 1pm (drop in, but please register an interest in advance). Click for details.
Blacksmithing in Broomfield Community Orchard
8 June 2-5pm - drop-in.......
A new neighbourhood watch scheme is being set up, covering all houses in two Palmers Green streets - Park Avenue and New River Crescent.
The new watch is the brainchild of Park Avenue resident Pamela Ramtohul, who is inviting everyone living in the two streets to a meeting on Tuesday 3rd June (7.30-8.30pm in the function room at the rear of the Fox pub). Jennifer Arkwright, the Police Community Support Officer for Palmers Green, will also be at the meeting, where she will listen to what.......
Fox Lane and District Residents' Association are asking residents to object to an application to fell a large oak tree which is protected by a Tree Preservation Order.
The tree (see photograph) is on land between the railway line and Caversham Avenue where the developers Sherrygreen are currently building new flats and houses.
For more information, visit the Fox Lane website........
In response to a Freedom of Information request, Enfield Council have provided drawings from late 2013 showing the concepts, at that time, for implementing cycle lanes along the Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill stretch of Green Lanes. As we reported in April on the basis of another document, the newly released material does show parking bays at various points along Green Lanes between Bourne Hill and the Triangle - on the eastern side only between Bourne Hill and Fox Lane and on both sides.......
The Summer Exhibition, organised by The N21 Festival team, will take place on Winchmore Hill Green and in the Kings Head pub on Saturday 5th July 2014 between 10am and 6.00pm.
The N21 Festival would like to hear from any artists, photographers, graphic designers, sculptors and crafts people if they would like to exhibit their works. There is no screening process, and previous shows have indicated that we can expect anything from first-time exhibitors to experienced fineartists.
At The Summer.......
Residents of a Palmers Green street are closing their road to traffic one Sunday a month to let their children play outdoors.
Drivers tend to use Devonshire Road as a rat run to avoid the traffic lights on the high street, but on the afternoon of Sunday 1st June, barriers will be placed at both ends and supervised by volunteer stewards. Only residents’ cars will be allowed in and out – at walking pace – and children will have the freedom play in the road as they choose.
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Less than a month to go till the 2014 Southgate and Palmers Green Open Studios & Art Trail. If you're impatient to see some of the beautiful work produced by the participating artists and creatives, you can call in at the preview exhibition that opens this Wednesday (14 May) at Anthony Webb in Green Lanes. And if you want to start planning your routes for Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th June, you can download a copy of the Trail Guide (printed copies will also be posted through.......
Myddleton Road Thentake the train one stop to Bowes Park, turn left at the top of the stairs, and you find yourself in Myddleton Road. A once thriving shopping street and community hub, neglected for many years and very shabby, only retaining some of its Victorian shopfronts, with many shops empty or used as illegal houses in multiple occupation - in some places resembling a ghost street. But despite this it's a special street, heart of a conservation area, and it's slowly coming back to life,.......