Question 1. What do think is good about the area?
• Mixed, tolerant community with good access to local and London-wide services.
• Reasonably wide and leafy streets
• Proximity to Broomfield Park
Question 2. What do you think is less good about the area?
• Traffic-related issues, including –
o Air quality
o Speed
o Parking
• Stark and obvious inequalities even within Palmers Green, never mind borough-wide.
• Threats to education (free schools), library (fended off for the moment) and health (Chase Farm) services.
• Litter.
• Lack of public engagement in planning process.
Question 3. What would you like to see to improve the area?
See comments on traffic, and clutter, but also a co-ordinated approach to the redevelopment of Southgate Town Hall, Broomfield House and Truro House. Piecemeal proposals have not worked and threaten to blight the area.
Question 4a. Specific aspects – traffic
• Twenty’s plenty, at least in residential streets.
• Encouragement of public transport use.
• Encouragement of hybrid and electric vehicles, with adequate provision of charging points.
• Discouragement of the use of highly polluting vehicles such as 4x4s.
Question 4b. Specific aspects – parking
Parking charges and enforcement are essential to preventing the streets from turning into a Clarksonesque nightmare.
Question 4c. Specific aspects – clutter
If it is unnecessary it should not be there. But what test is to be applied to advertising, which is also too prominent and destroys the look and feel of the area?
Question 4d. Specific aspects – look of the shops/architecture
Palmers Green is not Venice, but new development should be reasonably in keeping.
Question 4f. Specific aspects – amount and use of pavement space
It would be good to see more development of pavement cafes, particularly at the Triangle, and not just the few tables placed outside for smokers. The cost of removing litter from flower beds and elsewhere should be borne by those who sell the cans and cartons in question.
