18 September 2018
Following the announcement that Islington Council is to divest from investments in fossil fuel companies, climate change campaigners in our borough are urging Enfield Council to follow suit.
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28 July 2018
Following the cabinet meeting on 25th July, Enfield Council has issued a press release about its planned method of taking forward the Meridian Water project - major redevelopment of land adjacent to the North Circular Road in Edmonton to provide both housing and employment land.
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04 July 2018
Labour's national executive committee is to investigate allegations of irregularities in the selection of candidates for this year's council elections.
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04 July 2018
A campaign against a planned funfair in Broomfield Park which would have lasted for 24 days has been successful. An Enfield cabinet member has written to neighbouring residents stating that the fair will not be held this year and that the council will be applying tighter conditions on future funfairs and circuses in the park to address the various issues raised by campaigners.
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20 June 2018
Enfield Council are currently consulting on their Safeguarding Adults Strategy (2018 – 2023). They are asking people who live and work in Enfield for their views on their next Safeguarding Adults Strategy, which will run until 2023. A Safeguarding Adults Strategy is a plan to keep adults safe from abuse and harm.
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16 May 2018
The leader of Enfield Council's Labour Group, Doug Taylor, has been replaced by Nesil Caliskan, who therefore becomes the new leader of Enfield Council
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01 April 2018
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15 March 2018
An Open Letter to Enfield Council
As a deaf journalist (Stephen) and a deaf counsellor (Pauline) living in Enfield, we write urgently to ask you as council leader to reconsider your imminent funding cut to a lifeline for some of the borough's most vulnerable people.
At last week's Deaf Forum meeting at Community House, attended by several of your fellow councillors, the local deaf community was caught unawares by the decision to cease funding - in just three weeks' time - of the Deaf Project's.......
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11 February 2018
The following is a brief outline of some of the points raised at the Palmers Green Ward Forum on 8th February.
There is another summary, by Sarah Dodgson, on the Enfield Voices Facebook page, produced as part of the Enfield Voices Citizen Journalism initiative. There is also a video recording of the meeting made by Francis Sealey that he live streamed on Facebook (which not everyone can view - I'm one of those who can't, so I'm relying entirely on the notes I made at the meeting)........
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10 January 2018
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09 January 2018
At its meeting on 16 January Enfield Council's Health Scrutiny Panel will be briefed on the Council's strategies to tackle public health and health inequalties by Tessa Lindfield, Director of Public Health, and Glenn Stewart, Assistant Director of Public Health.
The briefing paper provided for the meeting notes that
"The role of public health is to advise on the design of Council and NHS services and the design of Enfield as a place to promote health and reduce inequalities. This recognises.......
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06 January 2018
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12 December 2017
Work on installing sprinklers in the 54 high rise tower blocks managed by Enfield Council will start in the new year. The project, expected to cost in the region of £8 million, or £3,000 per property, will be paid for by Enfield Council, but the authority is lobbying the government to fund the scheme which has been introduced in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire in Kensington and Chelsea, which claimed the lives of 71 people. Although Enfield Council managed blocks are.......
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15 November 2017
The operating hours of the Lodge Drive car park in Palmers Green are to be extended, probably from this weekend. Cars will be able to enter up until 11.30pm and leave at any time.
The failure to extend the car park's operating hours - something promised as part of the Cycle Enfield project - was raised at the September meeting of the Palmers Green Ward Forum. In an email to attendees sent out today, Councillor Mary Maguire wrote:
Please also note that following the September ward forum I.......
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15 November 2017
Palmers Green Police (@MPSPalmersGreen) have reported anti-littering action by the council via Twitter:
This morning @EnfieldCouncil have been out issuing enforcing notices and warning letters to offenders that litter the streets of #palmersgreen
accompanied by photographs of the letters
What's unclear is whether these letters have gone to all neighbouring addresses or have only been sent to known offenders.
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08 November 2017
Following a public consultation earlier this year about proposals to change the charging formula for providing adult social care, Enfield Council has decided not to implement any changes at present. Instead it will "take a longer and more in depth look at how best to ensure fairness in our charging policy and use of resources".
The changes that the council was consulting on would have affected people who require overnight care, for some of whom the charges made by the council would.......
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07 November 2017
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