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On 11 April Enfield Council announced that it was launching the Cleaner Streets Campaign, aimed at reducing littering, dog fouling, fly tipping and untidy front gardens. At present details are sketchy, but it would appear from the announcement on the Council's website and from an earlier message from the Council Leader that the campaign involves: cutting the cost of street cleaning by encouraging residents to "clean up after themselves" - to be achieved both by encouraging people to join.......

Serious concerns about a shortage of primary school places for families in their area have been raised by the Fox Lane and District Residents' Association

Enfield Council has revealed that it has begun introducing an energy management system for street lighting throughout the borough which will allow light levels to be varied, with consequent reductions in electricity consumption. The system will be used to switch lights on later in the evening and earlier in the morning, as well as to reduce lighting levels "subtly" - so subtly, in fact, that the Council claims that residents will not notice. About twenty per cent of street lights have already.......

On 3 March Enfield Council officers and representatives of the Broomfield House Working Group met Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) officers to discuss the reasons for the failure of their recent bid for funds to restore Broomfield House. They were told that HLF officers had in fact recommended to the board of the National Heritage Memorial Fund that the bid for £4 million funding should pass the first round of decision-making. In the event, faced with the task of evaluating ten new projects and with.......

Enfield Council has now published the minutes of the Planning Panel meeting held on 28 February to discuss Notting Hill Housing Trust's planning applications for land near the Bowes Road/Telford Road intersection. The minutes record questions and comments made by local residents and councillors, along with the answers provided by the developers. As we reported earlier, the meeting was very well attended - the minutes estimate that 200 members of the public were present - which is indicative of.......

Enfield Council are asking residents of the borough to help them identify any ash trees that are showing signs of Ash Dieback disease........

Plans by the Notting Hill Housing Trust to significantly increase the density of housing along the North Circular Road, near the Bowes Road/Telford Road intersection, were discussed at a meeting of Enfield Council's Planning Panel at a packed meeting held on 28 February at the Trinity-at-Bowes Centre. According to a posting on the Bowes & Bounds United website, opposition to the plans from members of the public appeared to be unanimous. A Bowes Park resident, Nikki Salih, from the Ritz.......

Enfield Council has indicated its approval for a scheme to install new pedestrian refuge islands at two points along Green Lanes - one near Stonard Road in Palmers Green (close to the Catholic church and Intimate Theatre), the other near Radcliffe Road in the centre of Winchmore Hill........

The Enfield Safer and Stronger Communities Board is surveying Enfield borough residents to ascertain where crime-fighting resources should be focussed. Surveys are being carried out at a meeting on 28th February and at railway stations. It is also possible to fill in an online survey form. More details are available on the Enfield Council.......

After many months of consultations and redrafting, Enfield Council are set to publish the "Proposed Submission Version" of the North Circular Area Action Plan (NCAAP) on 8th March. After publication, there will be a six-month statutory consultation period........

The Friends of Grovelands Park are looking for volunteers to help run a two-day event to celebrate the centenary of the park's opening. The celebrations, on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May, will begin with a re-enactment of the original 1913 opening ceremony, involving an Edwardian themed historical pageant........

A group of local residents have raised concerns about an application by the Notting Hill Housing Association to demolish houses in Bowes Road between Powys Lane and Pymmes Close and build a total of 225 new dwellings.  The concerns are outlined in some detail in a forum post on the Bowes & Bounds Connected website and relate the a planning application that can be accessed on the Enfield Council.......