Local residents attending this week's meeting of the Bowes, Palmers Green and Southgate Green Area Forum were provided with information about the work which is currently under way at Palmers Green Triangle. However, representatives of Fox Lane & District Residents' Association (FLDRA) were unhappy about not being notified in advance about the work, let alone consulted about it, after having received assurances that they would be consulted at a meeting in August (see this earlier report)........
Enfield Council have promised to update the public on the future of Southgate Town Hall at the Area Forum meeting this week, and it is hoped that more information will be made available about work currently under way to improve the appearance of Palmers Green Triangle........
Enfield Council has announced that the public consultation on a new zebra crossing in Aldermans Hill showed that the public were in favour of the plan. The zebra crossing will be installed near the junction with Old Park Road (see photograph).
Over the past five years eight people have been injured crossing the road near the location of the new zebra.
Work to install the crossing and relocate pay and display parking bays will cost £35,000........
Plans for refurbishment of Palmers Green Library, which were approved by Enfield Council's Cabinet on 16 October, will leave Palmers Green Town Centre without a proper library for a period of 14 months.
The deadline is approaching for comments on an application to convert a disused 3-storey office building in Fox Lane into 21 flats.
The deadline for public comments on planning application P13-02624PRJ is Tuesday 15 October. The building in question is Dumayne House, which is situated on the southern side of Fox Lane, immediately to the West of the railway bridge........
At the Bowes, Palmers Green and Southgate Area Forum held on 25 July 2013 an update on relaxation of the rules regarding permitted development allowances was provided, as requested at the preceding Area Forum meeting. The text of the update was included in the published Minutes, from which the following text has been extracted.
Andy Higham (Head of Development Management) provided the following update on the latest changes/relaxation of the permitted development allowances for residential and.......
Two local community groups are continuing their efforts to save a mature oak following an appeal against a Council rejection of an application to fell it.
The tree (see photograph) is located close to Lady Shaw Court, a modern development near the intersection of Fox Lane and St Georges Road, and is one of only a few trees on the Lakes Estate which are subject to a Tree Preservation Order. When an application to fell the tree was submitted to Enfield Council in April this year, both the.......
A two-year campaign aimed at persuading North London councils to scale down their plans for building new waste processing capacity and at preserving a wooded area adjacent to the North Circular Road scored a significant victory this week, when the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) announced that it was abandoning its plan for an expensive long-term procurement.
Since 2011 the Pinkham Way Alliance has been campaigning against the planned construction of a large facility at Pinkham Wood, close.......
A conservation group has expressed concern about Network Rail's planned tree removals alongside the railway in Palmers Green, which is due to begin on Monday 30th September (this this earlier report).
Colin Younger, Chair of the Lakes Estate Conservation Area Study Group, has written to Network Rail to express the Group's worries that the "attention" to "more sycamore trees" which the rail company say is needed might lead to wholesale removal of tree cover, as has happened along other sections.......
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.......
