14 August 2019
The latest Fox Lane & District Residents Association newsletter includes a report on the Palmers Green Town Centre public meeting held on 13th July - reproduced here with kind permission.
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15 July 2019
The text of the presentation given by Liz Robinson of the Palmers Green Action Team at last Saturday's town centre meeting in the former Starbucks building.
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03 July 2019
At the first of a series of Town Centre Meetings, Enfield Council's Neighbourhood Regeneration and Town Centres Development team is inviting Palmers Green people - residents, business owners, visitors - to air their views about how PG can be made better. The meeting will include a presentation by the council leader, Cllr Nesil Caliscan, and refreshments will be provided.
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12 June 2019
Liz Robinson of the Palmers Green Action Team (PGAT) writes about the spring clean last month and the Team's future plans.
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08 May 2019
The arrival of Stitch! Crafts and Classes at 397 Green Lanes Palmers Green has a back-story with links to two stores that were once much-loved local shopping institutions.
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02 May 2019
The Palmers Green Action Team say that we have a young, active and vibrant community who are desperate to see new life breathed into our high street and the beautiful Edwardian architecture surrounding us. And they have been working on ideas for how to do just that.
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27 March 2019
An announcement last week on the Palmers Green Action Team's Facebook page has created great interest among Palmers Green people who like to make their own things.
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06 March 2019
A group of PG residents who are keen to make Palmers Green a more beautiful and thriving place have got together to form the Palmers Green Action Team. Their plans include a spring clean of the town centre on 11th May.
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14 December 2018
The organisation Living Streets, which campaigns on behalf of pedestrians, has commissioned an updated edition of The Pedestrian Pound, a study into the relationship between the pedestrian-friendliness and attractiveness of high streets and the economic success of their businesses.
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31 October 2018
Palmers Green will have Christmas lights this year thanks to a collaboration between business, residents and Enfield Council
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30 August 2018
At the Palmers Green Festival Speakers Corner Clare Richmond will be talking about her successful project to regenerate the high street in Crouch End.
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13 June 2018
An initiative called Reimagining Palmers Green has the goal of helping our shopping parades not just weather the storms currently afflicting high streets everywhere, but become a thriving, local, multi-purpose visit centre.
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01 May 2018
The organisers of the Palmers Green Festival have issued an appeal for help of a very practtcal kind.
Palmers Green Festival seeks relief
Festival organisers are worried that its ongoing success might cause some discomfort to visitors. Organising volunteer Angie Smith explained, “For a number of years our portaloos have been funded by a hugely generous £600 annual donation by a Palmer’s Green resident. Because the festival is developed, organised and funded entirely by.......
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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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03 February 2017
The latest news about the Triangle from Richard Eason, Cycle Enfield Consultation Manager, is that the plans include six new trees. Five of these are intended to be ‘heavy standard’ trees (three located around HSBC and two by Starbucks). The sixth tree will be a semi-mature tree to be placed in the middle of the triangle.
So essentially as captured in the attached visualisation, though the positioning of the clock is yet to be agreed.
Work on the triangle is currently scheduled.......
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01 February 2017
According to a letter delivered to homes in the vicinity of the A105, Cycle Enfield construction work in Palmers Green was due to start "by late January 2017" between Lodge Drive and Osborne Road. Work on this section would continue until June.
17th January 2017
Cycle Enfield construction on the A105
This letter is to inform you of work in your area to construct the A105 cycle lane.
Work on the upcoming sections of the cycle route (between Lodge Drive and Osborne Road and also.......
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02 September 2016
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........
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27 August 2016
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.......
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06 July 2016
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.......
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24 May 2016
The revised drawings for the planned cycle lanes along the entire length of the A105 between Enfield Town and Palmers Green are now available online. The drawings reproduced below show the most important sections in Palmers Green only.
In addition to the drawings the Council has published a "You said - we did" list:
You Said - We Did
You were concerned about the bus stop design – we have amended the design at 22 bus stops to create additional space between the bus and the.......
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