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  • Making space for teen girls in Broomfield Park

    Making space for teen girls in Broomfield Park

    17 Apr 2024 Please note that starting next Wednesday the weekly workshops in Broomfield Park will start at 5pm rather than 4pm.

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  • Survey: Your thoughts on single-use plastics and switching to reusable alternatives

    Survey: Your thoughts on single-use plastics and switching to reusable alternatives

    17 Apr 2024 Enfield Council and the North London Waste Authority are conducting a survey to find out what residents think about single-use plastics and switching to reusable alternatives.

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  • Cockfosters to Carshalton via Palmers Green: The North to South London walking trail launches next month

    Cockfosters to Carshalton via Palmers Green: The North to South London walking trail launches next month

    16 Apr 2024 On Saturday 4th May a group of walkers will pass through Broomfield Park, inaugurating the first leg of a new North to South London Walking Trail that stretches from Cockfosters to Carshalton Beeches.

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  • PG Ward Panel (CAPE) April 2024 - posted by Karl Brown

    16 Apr 2024 "What began as a report of luggage theft led to Metropolitan Police detectives identifying and foiling a drugs importation gang." enfielddispatch.co.uk/two-southgate-drug-dealers-among-four-jailed-after-international-operation-foiled-by-cops/   I've been a bit broken record on the often unexpected benefits of reporting whatevers to the police. Here's a surprising local link in such a vein from our free paper. 

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  • Bowes Primary school street to come into force at end of April

    Bowes Primary school street to come into force at end of April

    15 Apr 2024 As of Monday 29th April a school street will be in operation during school arrival and departure times in the section of Highworth Road adjacent to Bowes Primary School. School streets are designed to improve the safety of children and parents when arriving and leaving school by banning cars from a zone near the school during these times.

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  • Solving the Council’s Debt Problem - posted by Karl Brown

    12 Apr 2024 Like much of the UK our council is (very) heavily indebted. In seeking to control the position we have already seen our council tax rise 5%, services withdrawn, and other charges increased.  Several local authorities are effectively bankrupt, many others are at risk of following. Best if Enfield is not one of them. In the “startling impact” fee rise category[…]

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  • London Assembly Enfield & Haringey constituency climate hustings

    London Assembly Enfield & Haringey constituency climate hustings

    10 Apr 2024 Quentin Given from Friends of the Earth reports on this week's climate hustings, held in Wood Green, to which four of the candidates for the post of Assembly Member for Enfield & Haringey were invited.

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  • PG Ward Panel (CAPE) April 2024 - posted by Karl Brown

    9 Apr 2024 At this latest panel, slightly smaller due to school holiday absences, we were joined by PG’s new Inspector, adding knowledge and emphasising the Met’s increasing focus on community policing and community led policing. We received a brief presentation from a member of the CHIPS street safety team. Historically focused on schoolchildren, particularly those transitioning from junior to secondary, CHIPS is[…]

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  • Looking after Broomfield's beds

    Looking after Broomfield's beds

    9 Apr 2024 Sally Everist from Friends of Broomfield Park's horticulture group updates us on work to keep the park's flower beds looking good and invites us to a plant sale.

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  • Enfield Local Plan: Window for submissions open until 20th May

    Enfield Local Plan: Window for submissions open until 20th May

    8 Apr 2024 The long and complex process by which the new Enfield Local Plan is being developed has now moved on to the 'Regulation 19' stage, which provides a final opportunity for members of the public to submit written representations. Understanding the plan and the processes for drawing it up and approving it requires specialist expertise, and both the council and the[…]

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  • Making space for teen girls in Broomfield Park

    Making space for teen girls in Broomfield Park

    7 Apr 2024 The Make Space for Girls Broomfield Park project is recruiting local girls, young women and non-binary teens to take part in a series of workshops starting this month aimed at teasing out what it is that deters them from using the park as a social space for 'hanging out'. The findings will be used in the design of new park[…]

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  • Volunteering opportunities galore!

    Volunteering opportunities galore!

    5 Apr 2024 The latest issue of the guide to volunteering opportunities in the borough and further afield has been published and can be downloaded from the Enfield Voluntary Action (EVA) website.

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  • Help preserve the press!

    Help preserve the press!

    3 Apr 2024 Enfield Dispatch, the borough's chief source of genuinely independent local news, is setting up a stabilisation fund in order to put its finances on a more sustainable basis, and is looking for patrons to contribute £500 or more.

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  • Pub of the Year - yet again!

    Pub of the Year - yet again!

    2 Apr 2024 Easter Monday afternoon was a scene of celebration at the Little Green Dragon micropub in Winchmore Hill. On the pavement outside Etcetera Morris danced, while inside the packed bar customers were entertained by musical duo/trio That Blue Patch. But the highlight of the afternoon was the presentation of a Pub of the Year award by the local branch of the[…]

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  • Still waiting...

    Still waiting...

    29 Mar 2024 Since it closed for repairs and redecoration several months ago, we've been waiting impatiently for one of the glories of Palmers Green to shrug off its plastic cocoon and reveal itself to visitors to Broomfield Park. But we're going to have to wait a little bit longer...

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  • Train operator launches poetry competition to get kids' imaginations back on track

    Train operator launches poetry competition to get kids' imaginations back on track

    27 Mar 2024 The railway company whose trains serve Palmers Green has launched a poetry competition in partnership with Children's Laureate, Joseph Coelho.

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  • Safer roads campaigners ask: Where's the Plan for Pedestrians?

    Safer roads campaigners ask: Where's the Plan for Pedestrians?

    23 Mar 2024 The 20's Plenty for Us campaign has published its response to recently issued government guidance on setting local speed limits, accusing the Department for Transport of misrepresenting data on pedestrian fatalities when hit by a vehicle travelling at speeds between 20 and 30mph. The 'Plan for Drivers', it says, will discriminate against pedestrians, cyclists, children, the elderly and the disabled.

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  • The Local Plan Debate Of Missed Opportunities. - posted by Darren Edgar

    21 Mar 2024 Labour being Labour. Tories being Tories. All wrapped around the perma-objection NIMBYism or more accurately BANANA - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything. Wish the nonsense around Sainsbury's getting developed would die a death. Local Tories and Lib Dems lying enough for people to have fully bought into the idea now. And as for the alternate plans, the first hypocrisy[…]

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  • The Local Plan Debate Of Missed Opportunities. - posted by Karl Brown

    21 Mar 2024 Like Francis I watched for a period and felt disappointed that after 6 years work and countless text there was still a huge void in the political grey. The plan covers much which will impact but the headline is undoubtedly housing / green belt.  My thinking has long gone like this: here’s a new housing target (34000 in this case,[…]

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  • Southgate urban realm enhancement discussions at the Southgate Club

    Southgate urban realm enhancement discussions at the Southgate Club

    19 Mar 2024 The final stop on the Southgate Launches itinerary on Saturday 9th March, after admiring Dan Maier's window art at the library and the two new parklets on Ashfield Parade, was the Southgate Club on Chase Side, where visitors were able to meet the designers who will be creating the Portrait of Southgate mosaics, as well as finding out about plans[…]

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  • Show some love for the Wolves Lane Centre

    Show some love for the Wolves Lane Centre

    19 Mar 2024 Wolves Lane Centre isn't in Palmers Green, but it's not far away. This remarkable community and environmental project is raising money for improvements and expansion of its food growing and educational capacity - and you can have your donation doubled.

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  • Inauguration of new Southgate parklets incorporating design ideas from young people

    Inauguration of new Southgate parklets incorporating design ideas from young people

    13 Mar 2024 Following the inauguration of the window art at Southgate Library, the second location on last Saturday's Launch Southgate itinerary was Ashfield Parade, where two new parklets were installed last month.

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  • Full council debates Enfield Local Plan next Tuesday

    13 Mar 2024 Full council will debate the Enfield Local Plan on Tuesday 19th March at 7pm. There will be overspill accommodation at the Civic Centre to watch the debate, which will also be accessible online.

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  • Southgate Library blooms with new window art

    Southgate Library blooms with new window art

    12 Mar 2024 First stop on last Saturday's Southgate Launches event was the library, where artist Dan Maier recently completed her third building transformation in the town centre, adorning the windows with a vibrant artwork showcasing Southgate's rich horticultural heritage.

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  • Interested in environmentally sustainable fashion?

    Interested in environmentally sustainable fashion?

    12 Mar 2024 Enfield Climate Action Forum members are looking to set up an 'Eco Fashion' working group to research ways of reducing the impact of the clothes we buy on climate change and other environmental issues. To find out more you can join a webinar (online meeting) at 7pm on Wednesday 20th March.

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  • NHS in North Central London recruiting volunteers to help oversee the 'joining up' of patient data

    NHS in North Central London recruiting volunteers to help oversee the 'joining up' of patient data

    7 Mar 2024 The NHS in north London is preparing to begin combining patient data with the aim of improving services. An opt out is available and volunteers are being recruited to the committee which will oversee use of the data.

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Exhibitions and longer runs

Sisters, Sirens and Saints: Imagining the Women of Beatrice Offor
Art exhibition: The Power of the Marshes

Saturday 13 April until Sunday 28 April

Tuesday 23 April until Saturday 27 April

Saturday 27 April and Sunday 28 April

Future Highlights

Wednesday 8 May

Winchmore Hill ward forum

Sunday 19 May until Saturday 25 May

Incognito Theatre present Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton

Wednesday 22 May

Arnos Grove Ward Forum

Saturday 25 May until Monday 27 May

Coggers Funfair in Broomfield Park

Wednesday 19 June until Saturday 22 June

Southgate Opera present La Vie Parisienne

Saturday 22 June

Saturday Love All Dayer

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