Grovelands Park

Painting being auctioned to raise money for Grovelands Park improvements

13 October 2023

Friends of Grovelands Park are raising money for improvements to the park by auctioning a painting by a local artist.

Cleaning up the Salmons Brook - what was achieved in 2015

05 January 2016

The environmental group Thames 21 has issued a progress report on one of its north London projects - the Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge. During 2015 work was continued in Grovelands Park and along the Houndsden Gutter. What is the Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge? The Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge is part of Thames 21's Love the Lea programme of work to improve the quality of the water in the River Lea, some of which is used to provide drinking water and some.......

New reed bed in Groveland Park designed to reduce water pollution

08 July 2015

A brand new reed bed is being constructed in Grovelands Park lake to help improve water quality. The reed bed is being created as part of Thames21’s Salmons Brook Healthy River Challenge together with Enfield Council. The aim of the project is to improve water quality across the area through the delivery of practical environmental schemes. Currently Salmons Brook and the waterways which feed it suffer from pollution due to plumbing misconnections and run-off from roads which contain heavy.......

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Playground improvements - public support required

10 March 2015

Enfield Council is running a public consultation to gauge views about an application for funding for improvements to children's play facilities in three local parks. Hazelwood Recreation Ground, Tatem Park and Grovelands Park Play Areas The Friends of Hazelwood Recreation Ground, Tatem Park and Grovelands Park are proposing to improve the play areas in these parks and they need your help to apply for funding. The groups are looking for people’s views and comments on the current play.......

Friends of Grovelands Park

25 July 2014

Friends of Grovelands Park - entry in Palmers Green Community Directory

Grovelands Park school concepts published

31 July 2013

Fox Lane and District Residents' Association have published a document provided by Enfield Council showng some of the initial concepts for a possible new primary school to be built in Grovelands Park (see this earlier report)........

Alarm over proposal to build school in Grovelands Park

16 July 2013

Campaigners wishing to retain and enhance Enfield Borough's green spaces have expressed alarm at suggestions that a new primary school might be built on Grovelands Park. The Federation of Enfield Residents and Allied Associations (FERAA) and Enfield Green Party are both concerned about the wording in a letter from Gary Barnes, Assistant Director for Regeneration, Leisure and Libraries at Enfield Council, which states that the Council is to appoint external consultants to help it "develop.......

Grovelands Centenary organisers call for volunteer helpers

10 February 2013

The Friends of Grovelands Park are looking for volunteers to help run a two-day event to celebrate the centenary of the park's opening. The celebrations, on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th May, will begin with a re-enactment of the original 1913 opening ceremony, involving an Edwardian themed historical pageant........

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