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Following a comprehensive survey exercise covering the whole of the borough, in which many local residents took part, Enfield Council has now produced its revised draft list of items considered worthy of Local Listing.
There are 251 entries on the list, considerably fewer than volunteers nominated. Details of those not selected for the list will be preserved for future reference.
There are a number in the Palmers Green area, for example the HSBC bank building, the finger post road sign.......
Enfield Council's plans to install cycle lanes along the A105 are again being challenged, this time by Conservative councillors, who have "called in" the decision by the Cabinet Member for the Environment, Councillor Daniel Anderson, to implement the proposals as set out in the Statutory Consultation earlier this year........
Karl Brown was in the public gallery to listen in during the examination in public of part of the Haringey Local plan dealing with the Pinkham Way nature conservation site (for background see this page on the Haringey Council website and this appeal from the Pinkham Way Alliance).
A full gallery heard from Haringey Council, the NLWA and Turleys acting for the PWA. Previously extensive written submissions, together with a call for more detail on some specific aspects (available on the PWA.......
Enfield Council has just posted on its website a comprehensive set of documents prepared for the Broomfield House Partnership Boards’ [1] consideration of the future of the House [2] and Stableyard. These can be read as they stand, but in order to better understand these papers, it might be helpful to summarise how we got here.
As well as the House, the Conservation Management Plan considers the Stables and the Park as a wholeRecent Plans
A number of earlier plans proposed by Enfield.......
Southgate District Civic Trust have drawn attention to an application for planning permission to develop the site of the former Thomas Lipton Memorial Hostel.
The Lipton Memorial Hostel occupied a mansion, Osidge, built in 1808 and later the home of tea and groceries magnate Thomas Lipton. Lipton died in 1931, bequeathing his house to the Queen's Nursing Association. At its opening in 1935 it provided accommodation for 14 retired nurses. Additional buildings were later added,.......
Enfield Council's plans for cycle lanes along main roads and quieter neighbourhoods in residential areas moved a little closer to completion this week, when a High Court judge refused an application for a judicial review of the Cycle Enfield consultation arrangements and ordered that the Save Our Green Lanes campaigning group should pay the Council's costs.
The judge dismissed claims by the anti-cycle lane campaigners that there were serious flaws in the way the consultation was.......
Campaigners seeking to protect a nature conservation site next to the North Circular Road are appealing to supporters to fill the public galleries at a planning meeting next Wednesday afternoon.
The Pinkham Way Alliance has learnt to its dismay that the North London Waste Authority has revived its previously abandoned plan to use the woodland adjacent to Pinkham Way as a potential site for a residual waste processing plant.
The meeting next week will be examining the draft Haringey Local.......
The Stage 1 Road Safety Audit for the A105 cycle lanes scheme has now been published. The auditors, from Transport for London (TfL), have indicated that they are satisfied with the responses to all the safety issues that they raised. Unfortunately, the auditors did not comment on hazards for pedestrians crossing roads at the Green Lanes/Hedge Lane/Bourne Hill junction, presumably because their terms of reference state that "Safety Audit is not intended to identify pre-existing.......
Christ Church Southgate (Waterfall Road, just off Southgate Green) will be open for free guided tours on each Sunday in August between 2.30 and 6pm.
The Lady Chapel contains windows designed by William Morris and wall paintings attributed to Philip Speakman Webb.The church is a grade II* listed building and is particularly noted for its windows, as recorded on the Historic England website:
"Notable stained glass. The E and W windows are by Clayton and Bell. Other windows are a well-documented.......
The Cycle Enfield A105 project has now reached the Statutory Consultation stage, which runs from today (6th July) until 29th July. This gives the public an opportunity to submit formal objections to the entire scheme or individual elements. Enfield Council will be distributing information leaflets to homes and businesses.
All required documents are linked to from cycleenfield.co.uk/major-projects/a105-scheme-consultation.
Paper copies of these documents are also available for.......