The charity All People All Places, which runs projects to help homeless people, is hoping to expand the Haringey Churches Winter Shelter across the borough boundary into Enfield to become the Haringey and Enfield Churches Winter Shelter. It has the support of local MPs David Burrowes, Andy Love and Nick de Bois, who have all recognised the need for emergency accommodation, in particular for single non-priority clients.
The charity is keen to hear from anyone who could help achieve this by.......
Plans for refurbishment of Palmers Green Library, which were approved by Enfield Council's Cabinet on 16 October, will leave Palmers Green Town Centre without a proper library for a period of 14 months.
The deadline is approaching for comments on an application to convert a disused 3-storey office building in Fox Lane into 21 flats.
The deadline for public comments on planning application P13-02624PRJ is Tuesday 15 October. The building in question is Dumayne House, which is situated on the southern side of Fox Lane, immediately to the West of the railway bridge........
At the Bowes, Palmers Green and Southgate Area Forum held on 25 July 2013 an update on relaxation of the rules regarding permitted development allowances was provided, as requested at the preceding Area Forum meeting. The text of the update was included in the published Minutes, from which the following text has been extracted.
Andy Higham (Head of Development Management) provided the following update on the latest changes/relaxation of the permitted development allowances for residential and.......
Two local community groups are continuing their efforts to save a mature oak following an appeal against a Council rejection of an application to fell it.
The tree (see photograph) is located close to Lady Shaw Court, a modern development near the intersection of Fox Lane and St Georges Road, and is one of only a few trees on the Lakes Estate which are subject to a Tree Preservation Order. When an application to fell the tree was submitted to Enfield Council in April this year, both the.......
The Friends of Broomfield Park have won three awards in this year's Enfield in Bloom competition:
the Park itself was awarded Silver in the category for Maintained Parks
Broomfield Community Orchard won Silver in the Innovative Growing Space category
Broomfield Conservatory was awarded Bronze for its Exceptional Horticultural Contribution to the Local Community........
If you have an idea for an innovative not-for-profit project intended to benefit the local community, you have until 18th October to try to persuade your local sub-postmaster to enter it into a nationwide scheme paid for by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG). Working with local residents, sub-postmasters across England can now apply for up to £10,000 from a £200,000 community enterprise fund from the DCLG and the Post Office. Branches will suggest suitable projects,.......
A two-year campaign aimed at persuading North London councils to scale down their plans for building new waste processing capacity and at preserving a wooded area adjacent to the North Circular Road scored a significant victory this week, when the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) announced that it was abandoning its plan for an expensive long-term procurement.
Since 2011 the Pinkham Way Alliance has been campaigning against the planned construction of a large facility at Pinkham Wood, close.......
A conservation group has expressed concern about Network Rail's planned tree removals alongside the railway in Palmers Green, which is due to begin on Monday 30th September (this this earlier report).
Colin Younger, Chair of the Lakes Estate Conservation Area Study Group, has written to Network Rail to express the Group's worries that the "attention" to "more sycamore trees" which the rail company say is needed might lead to wholesale removal of tree cover, as has happened along other sections.......
Network Rail are to carry out work on trees on railway land in Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill. The work, to be carried out between 30th September and 11th October, will affect "approximately 10-12 trees" which have been identified by an arboricultural survey as dead, diseased or dying.
The approximate locations of the trees affected are shown on the maps.
Network Rail have stated that the work is necessary to maintain a reliable and safe railway and have pointed out that last year a.......
Enfield Council will be holding a consultation meeting about its proposals to build a new primary school on land adjacent to Grovelands Park. The meeting will be at Southgate (The Bourne) Methodist Church at 7pm on Wednesday 25th September.
Reactions to the proposals, which came to light five months ago, have been mixed. The We Want Local Schools campaign welcomes the potential increase in primary school places within the area on which it is primarily focussed. In.......
Southgate-based Chickenshed Theatre is running a series of Adult Theatre Workshops which will be exclusively available to people aged 60 and above. As well as working with Chickenshed's highly experienced practitioners, participants will have an opportunity to meet other people who share their passion for the performing arts and theatre.
Participants must enroll for the entire six-session series, which starts this coming Monday, 9th September. More details are available on the Chickenshed.......