30 May 2016
Opponents of Enfield Council's cycle lanes proposals have initiated legal action aimed at stopping implementation of plans for cycle lanes along the A105.
The Save Our Green Lanes campaign last week served the council with papers in connection with its application for a High Court judicial review of the way the council has conducted consultations about the scheme, which envisages the creation of continuous cycle lanes between Enfield Town and Palmers Green.
Costas Georgiou, Chairman of the.......
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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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17 May 2016
A new campaigning group is calling for a fairer balance between cars, cycles, buses and pedestrians on Enfield's roads. Better Streets for Enfield supports the Cycle Enfield (Mini Holland) plans to boost cycling and walking rates by installing bike lanes, 'quieter neighbourhoods', and redesigned high streets.
Devonshire Road should by rights be a quiet residential street, but most of the time is a "rat run". For two hours a month it turns into a Play Street (Photo: Phil Rogers)While.......
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04 May 2016
On 19th May Enfield Council will be exhibiting the final design plans for the A105 cycle lanes scheme, revised to take account of public feedback from the last consultation round. The exhibition will be held at Palmers Green Library from 3pm to 8pm.
On the evening of Wednesday 25 May there will be a co-design workshop for residents on the design of the public realm mprovements in Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill. People have to apply for a limited number of places on this workshop, so get.......
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15 April 2016
Clare Rogers shares her thoughts about last week's Enfield Cycling Conference
This conference at Enfield’s Dugdale Centre on Friday 8 April left me feeling both inspired and daunted – inspired because we were shown what is possible and already being done in the Netherlands – and daunted because Enfield has such a long way to go.
This post tries to give a taste of what was said at the conference. For more in-depth information, you can find links to each presentation.......
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22 March 2016
On 8th April the Dugdale Centre will be hosting a cycling conference. On the same date there will be a Cycling Fair held at Fountain Island in Enfield Town between Noon and 5pm.
Enfield Cycling Fair 8 April 2016 12pm - 5pm
London Cycling Campaign and Enfield Council will be holding a cycling fair on Friday 8th April, 12-5pm, on Fountain Island, Enfield Town.
Try-a-bike area with Dutch bikes, e-bikes, bromptons and more.
Have your bike looked over by a trained mechanic
Talk to Enfield.......
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01 March 2016
Nine of the UK's leading environmental campaigns have come together to publish a manifesto outlining ways in which the next Mayor of London could tackle the capital's growing environmental problems.
Greener London: What the next Mayor can do to improve our capital has been produced by the Campaign for Better Transport, the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, Friends of the Earth, the Green Alliance, Greenpeace, the London Wildlife Trust, the National Trust, the Royal.......
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24 February 2016
The Department for Transport seeks feedback on proposed changes to penalties for the offence of using a hand-held mobile phone whilst driving.
This consultation seeks feedback on proposals for increasing the fixed penalty notice (FPN) level from £100 to £150 for all drivers. It also invites views on increasing the penalty points from:
3 to 4 points for non-HGV drivers
3 to 6 points for those that hold a large goods vehicle (HGV) licence and commit the offence whilst driving.......
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11 February 2016
Text and images (with some slight reformatting) taken from the Cycle Enfield website and the A105 Consultation Report.
The bus stop bypass and bus stop boarder designs that are proposed have been used in other parts of London and the UK. There are a number of councils who have implemented these designs (e.g. Camden Council and Brighton & Hove Council) who have monitored their impact and have not reported any significant issues.
Whilst it is acknowledged that this is a design not previously.......
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09 February 2016
As previously reported, the Cabinet will be invited to approve moving on to the next steps of the Cycle Enfield A105 scheme at their meeting on 10th February.
Previously we provided links to the Cycle Enfield documents as part of a 600-page Agenda Pack. We are now able to provide links to individual documents (see the box).
Additionally, we have extracted from two of the documents lists of concerns raised during the consultation process and the responses provided by the Council........
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06 February 2016
Documents published ahead of the meeting of Enfield's Cabinet contain a wealth of information about financial plans, the Cycle Enfield A105 scheme and other important business.
The Cabinet meet on Wednesday 10th December at 8.15pm in the Civic Centre. The Public Information Pack (522 pages!) includes detailed information about many topics, including the following;
Budget 2016/17 and Medium Term Financial Plan 2016/17 to 2019/20.
A recommendation to raise Council Tax for.......
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29 January 2016
Excerpts from Council Questions 28 January 2016. All the questions below relate to Cycle Enfield, but there were many more questions and answers on a wide range of subjects.
Click here to read the complete list of questions and answers.
Question 1 from Councillor Neville to Councillor Anderson, Cabinet Member for Environment
I made the Cabinet Member aware on 17 December 2015 of a post by the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) urging its supporters to vote for the council's proposals.......
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28 January 2016
The notes of the meeting of the Cycle Enfield Partnership Board (Enfield West) have been provided to all participants, along with the slides used for four of the supporting presentations.
The main headings below are links to PDF documents. The bullet points are my very rough attempts at describing the content and conclusions of the documents.
Notes of the meeting (click to download0
The notes do not in general duplicate the information contained in the presentation slides. .......
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25 January 2016
Following last week's meeting of the Enfield West Partnership Board, the revised proposals for cycle lanes along the A105 will be considered by Enfield Council's Cabinet on 10th February. If, as seems likely, the proposals are approved, they will then be sent to Transport for London (TfL) for its approval. If given the green light by TfL, the proposals will then be subject to a period of statutory public consultation.
Following the consultation, the engineers would move on to.......
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20 January 2016
David Burrowes MP has published the text of a letter written to him by the Mayor of London following a meeting at which Mr Burrowes raised concerns about the Cycle Enfield scheme.
In the letter Boris Johnson says that he agrees that it is "very important for Enfield, with the support of TfL, to ensure that the scheme is not moved forward to the next formal approval phase until the borough engages more extensively and intensively with residents and businesses". He adds that Leon Daniels,.......
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13 January 2016
David Burrowes MP has published the results of his unofficial "referendum", designed to gauge public support for the Enfield Council's proposals for cycle lanes along the A105. Of the votes cast, 76 per cent were against the proposals, 18 per cent were in favour and 6 per cent were partially in favour.
In his commentary about these figures on his website, Mr Burrowes says that "I will be meeting with Boris [Johnson] this week and will be telling him that the majority of my.......
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16 December 2015
The deadline for submitting comments on the Enfield Town and A110 (Southbury Road/Lea Valley Road) cycle lanes proposals is 18th December - this Friday. If the earlier A105 consultation is anything to go by, the deadline will fall at exactly midnight on Friday night, after which the system will no longer accept any input.
Consultation links
Enfield Town consultation
Southbury Road consultation
The debate about Cycle Enfield has been ongoing, on our forums and elsewhere, with.......
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14 December 2015
A Play Streets scheme that closes roads to cars opened Clare Rogers’ eyes to the idea of roads for recreation. Now she’s part of a grassroots campaign to revolutionise cycling in Enfield – but the battle isn’t over.
A consultation on the Mini Holland proposal to make Enfield town centre bike friendly closes on Friday. Photograph: Cycle Enfield
My sister Sally started it when she sent me a video about Playing Out – the seminal Bristol project which closes.......
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18 November 2015
Enfield Council has published some initial analysis of the responses from members of the public to the A105 Cycle Enfield Scheme (see the box below).
The analysis is very broad-brush, but one interesting fact that stands out is that respondents' highest priorities were pedestrian safety and air quality. "Convenient car parking" was one of the lowest priorities.
A fuller report will be issued in due course, which will include responses to points raised by the public. Some changes.......
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13 November 2015
In this film of a presentation at a conference held in Australlia, Simon Birkett, Founder and Director of Clean Air in London, talks about the most important lessons learned by him from 10 years of campaigning on air pollution. The film urges immediate action to reduce local air pollution and greenhouse gases to protect public health and mitigate climate change.
"One Atmosphere" can be viewed as ten separate "chapters" or as a single 35 minute film at https://vimeo.com/145615256........
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