News, comment and features

The following warnings about currently common types of scam are included in this month's Palmers Green Safer Neighbourhood News. The most common scam is the one shown above in the picture. Protecting your card details is vital. Card scams involve the use of stolenor counterfeit cards to make direct purchases or cash withdrawals or the use of stolen card details to buy items over the phone or via the internet. What you should know Phone: Your bank and the police will never ring you and.......

Enfield Council is consulting residents, as well as "anybody with an interest in Enfield", about proposed changes to the Statement of Community Involvement.  This document, which was originally issued in 2006, "seeks to ensure the active, meaningful and continued involvement of local communities and stakeholders in planning".  It sets out how, when and who will be consulted throughout the preparation of Local Plan and other statutory planning documents prepared by the Council, and in.......

Bob Griffiths has kindly emailed copies of the key illustrations giving possible road layouts for Green Lanes. One is for stretches with little or no retail activity and one which might apply to Palmers Green where there are shops etc on both sides of the road. Each starts with an "as now" cross section, which is followed by possible layouts using the same overall shop frontage to shop frontage distance across the road so they are intended to be easily comparable. Better quality versions of.......

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 thepalmersgreenery@gmail.com 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.......