Enfield Council has published a draft document outlining how it intends to manage the various town centres within the Borough and is asking for feedback from town centre users - retailers, people running other businesses, shoppers and those using town centres for leisure activities.
Enfield's Town Centres: Places for Everyone 
is officially described as a Draft Town Centres Management Framework, and the Council is inviting feedback via this page on its website. The deadline for comments is 11 April 2014.
The document explains that currently Enfield Council contracts out town centre management to the Enfield Business and Retail Association (EBRA), a non-profit organisation that coordinates marketing and promotions and chairs ten Retail, Business and Traders Forums. EBRA employs two Town Centre Managers, between them responsible for twelve town centres. Other organisations that play a part include the North London Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise Enfield and the Enfield Strategic Partnership - the last-named brings together a number of local government, voluntary, health sector, religious and academic organisations. The document then outlines various options for future governance.
In an appendix the Framework lists the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for individual town centres. Palmers Green's strengths include its independent businesses, Broomfield Park, restaurants and cafes, transport links (while the bus service is undoubtedly excellent, not everyone would agree about the "good" overground rail service), its well supported evening economy and its "historic" library (not to mention its "newly refurbished" post office, which some might consider cheap and shoddy). Only two opportunities are identified: "Regenerating Palmers Green Triangle, giving the core of the town centre a new look with the clock, new tree and colourful planters", and renewing the fluorescent signage for the Lodge Avenue car park and keeping the car park open until midnight.
