The second Palmers Green Community Festival, to be held in Broomfield Park this coming Sunday (1st September), will be even more ambitious than last year's resounding success, but entry will again be completely free........
When you visit the Palmers Green Community Festival on Sunday 1st September, be sure to visit the stand run by Noah's Ark Children's Hospice. This is a locally based charity with a difference: a hospice without its own building. Instead of patients coming to them, they come to the patients and care for them - and the other members of their families - in famliar home surroundings.
Noah's Ark estimate that there are 900 children in the boroughs they serve - Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and.......
Enfield Council is currently inviting comments from the public on a document that will play an important role in future decisions on planning applications. The "Proposed Submission" version of the Development Management Document is due to be submitted to a government-appointed Planning Inspector later in the year, and residents have until 27 September to send in their comments.
The document, which can be downloaded from this page lays down policy for the following areas:
Housing (including.......
At recent Area Forums members of the public have not received clear answers from Enfield Council representatives to questions about the future of the Palmers Green Triangle and possible environmental improvements in the surrounding streets. In an attempt to clarify the situation, the chairs of two local residents’ groups recently asked for a meeting with Council officers to find out what was happening and to ask about future consultation. A record of the meeting is now.......
In the face of a determined campaign led by the Pinkham Way Alliance, the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) remains set on building a large new waste processing facility at Pinkham Wood (between Friern Barnet and Bounds Green).
In late July the Haringey Independent reported that the NLWA Chairman had rebuked Hornsey and Wood Green MP Lynne Featherstone for signing a petition organised by the Pinkham Way Alliance and stated that "the Pinkham Way site remains central to NLWA’s future.......
Fox Lane and District Residents' Association have published a document provided by Enfield Council showng some of the initial concepts for a possible new primary school to be built in Grovelands Park (see this earlier report)........
Three locally based organisations are cooperating on an aural history project designed to discover how the arrival of rock'n'roll in the UK sixty years ago affected life in Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill, Southgate and Enfield. The question being posed by Joe Studman of Jaywalks, Sue Beard of Palmers Green Jewel in the North and Southgate District Civic Trust is:
Do you remember the first days of rock and roll? How did it impact on you and your family? What did you wear and where did.......
A new short film created by director Christine Lalla celebrates the history of Broomfield Park and its once magnificent centrepiece, Broomfield House. Christine has superimposed film footage from sixty years ago and from earlier this year, plus still photography from as far back as the 1880s, over a soundtrack of local residents speaking about their memories of the Park and of the House in its heyday - of times when Olympic sprinters would train on the running track, when crowds of.......
Following two highly successful annual Southgate and Palmers Green Open Studios and Art Fairs, local designer Dan Maier has set up a new organisation, Creative Exchange, which she describes as a "collective of designers, craftspeople and artists". Creative Exchange is centered on Southgate, Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill but welcomes members from elsewhere in Enfield, Barnet and surrounding areas.
Creative Exchange's next major event will be a Designer Craft and Art Fair, to be.......
The agenda has now been published online for the meeting of the Bowes, Palmers Green and Southgate Green Area Forum on Thursday 25 July.
Attached to the minutes of the last meeting is a brief written update on the status of various planning applications submitted by the Notting Hill Housing Trust relating to the property it owns along the North Circular Road. This reads as follows:
Site 15abc (located at Pevensey Avenue/ Hastings Road) has been granted permission with.......
Photograph by Craig Boulton
A North London community brass band is looking for new members - both experienced musicians for their public performances and non-players who would like to learn a brass instrument.
Fortismere Community Brass was set up in March 2013 in association with Fortismere Music Centre to provide a quality community-focused, not-for-profit brass band in the local community in Muswell Hill, Fortis Green and the surrounding area.
The band rehearses on Friday evenings at.......
If you have a child aged between six and nine who enjoys outdoor play, crafts, games, making friends and camping, then Palmers Green Woodcraft Folk might be just what you're looking for.
The local group currently has vacancies for Sunshine Elfins, the youngest category of Woodcraft Folk. They meet on Wednesday evenings between 6pm and 7.15pm at Hazelwood School in Hazelwood Lane.
The Woodcraft Folk are a national educational movement which promotes a cooperative approach to life........