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News, comment and features
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Both the discussions on the mini-Holland scheme and the consultation on the future of Palmers Green raise issues about the shopping environment. One of the most significant influences on the street scene, whether in a Conservation Area (as along parts of Aldermans Hill) or more generally, is the appearance of shop fronts themselves.
This can be as subtle as the colouring and lettering on shop fronts or as “in your face” as the spread of the solid shop front security shutters which.......
Waitrose Palmers Green has chosen to support the restoration of the Garden of Remembrance in Broomfield park as one of its three charities for the month of May. If you are shopping in Waitrose please place your green tokens in our box so that we can get the maximum amount from the £500 pot of money to be distributed between the three charities for May.
Opening of Broomfield Park garden of remembrance in 1929The Friends of Broomfield Park are planning to use the money towards funding a visitor.......
Betty Wright was born in Southgate Town Hall in 1927 and grew up there. She would love to see its interior again before the developers get to work turning it into flats. Someone trying to help her achieve that ambition is Suzanne Beard of Palmers Green Jewel in the North, who recently wrote an open letter to a number of Enfield councillors asking them to try to arrange this, pointing out that she had earlier written to the then Mayor making the same request, but after a promising.......
A planning application pertaining to a new Sainsbury's Local store in Green Lanes was submitted to Enfield Council this week. As expected, it will occupy the premises previously belonging to the Turkish food shop 1001 Supermarket and the adjacent Palmers Green News paper shop. However, it does not include the former Coffee Culture cafe, which last week reopened as Kiva Coffee House and Brasserie (see this Enfield Independent report.).
Sainsbury's are planning to open the new store.......
The beautiful Broomfield Conservatory is at its best in this sunny weather. Both visitors and the conservatory's collection of exotic plants are enjoying the light and warmth, and currently there's an extra treat for visitors - an exhibition of photographs submitted to the Friends of Broomfield Park's second annual photocompetition.
The Friends' committee members have, with great difficulty, shortlisted eleven of the 85 entries to the competition, printed them out and put them on display.......
The 2014 Palmers Green Festival will be held in Broomfield Park, Palmers Green, on Sunday 7th September from 12 noon to 7pm.
Stall registration is now open!
Thousands of people from Enfield and beyond came along last year to enjoy this increasingly popular annual community Festival celebrating all of the diverse communities in the Palmers Green area.
Different zones around Broomfield Park provide something for everyone:
live music on the lakeside bandstand from amazing local performers
a.......
Skills for Work Service (Enfield Council) is currently working in ten primary schools as part of a wider Market Gardening project. All schools are working hard to grow vegetables and fruit in the school grounds with parents and children. This is helping both to educate the children about growing food and also to provide food to support families.
The project requires volunteers to help with food growing in schools. You would need to have an understanding and passion of how to grow and look after.......
"High Street parking might disappear under Mini-Holland Scheme!!!" is the headline on a leaflet issued by the Enfield Business and Retail Association (EBRA) and Green Lanes Business Association (GLBA), in which the two trade bodies warn that "It is highly likely that Pay and Display parking bays will be removed on both sides of the High Streets outside the local shops". The N21 Online website uses the lurid headline "Are our High Streets about to be Sacrificed for the Mini-Holland.......
A London Assembly study has highlighted the increasing vulnerability of pedestrians in London and is critical of the policies of the Mayor of London and Metropolitan Police.
Feet First: Improving Pedestrian Safety in London is a newly published report by the Assembly's Transport Committee, which comprises members from the Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democratic and Green parties.
In their executive summary the Committee set out the current state of affairs:
More pedestrians are killed or.......
A twelve-week course on painting with oils begins on Tuesday 22nd April in Wood Green, starting at 7.30pm. The classes, intended for people of all ages, are taught by Mick Yates and will be held at the Burghley Road Children's Centre, London N8 OQG (near Turnpike Lane).
The hour-long sessions costs £10 each or £7 if you book for all twelve weeks in advance. More information from the Big Green Bookshop in Brampton Road or you can call Mick on 07985558001........
On 4 March planning permission was granted for refurbishment of Palmers Green Library. The official planning documentation can be found on the Council website, the most interesting documents being the Planning Statement and Design and Access Statement.
The exterior of the building, now separated from the adjacent former town hall, will be renovated and a new entrance and new liftshaft built on the north-eastern corner (see illustration). Inside the building, only about half of the.......
Local face and body artist Caroline Young, aka TropicalBird.co.uk, was the first stallholder to sign up for the 2014 Palmers Green Community Festival, which will take place in Broomfield Park on 7th September.
Open air Salsa at the 2013 FestivalRegistration for stallholders began on 25th March and is open to small local businesses, charities and community groups. At the 2013 Festival more than a hundred different businesses and organisations took the opportunity to promote their work to.......