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Rogue traders warning: If in doubt, keep them out!
26 Sep 2022 Palmers Green Safer Neighbourhoods Team are warning residents about the severe financial risks involved when dealing with rogue traders, in particular roofers. Accompanying their monthly email newsletter is information about how a Southgate resident was nearly persuaded to sign over their property to a rogue trader. Read more...
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Schoolkids, tell us how you feel about climate change
24 Sep 2022 EnCAF have now issued another, more recent interview with the people behind the competition and with a student at Middlesex University who was involved in creating the two films for screening in schools. Read more...
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Call for public to attend rescheduled local plan council debate
24 Sep 2022 The debate about a petition demanding adequate debate about the new Enfield Local Plan has been rescheduled and will now be held at 7pm on Wednesday 12th October at a newly convened meeting of Enfield Council. Campaigners are asking supporters to fill the public gallery and, if available, any overspill capacity in the Civic Centre. Read more...
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Join Healthwatch Enfield as a community outreach volunteer
23 Sep 2022 Healthwatch Enfield are recruiting community outreach volunteers. Their role is to be 'out there' talking and listening to patients, community members and/or people who use health and social care services. If you enjoy chatting to people, have good listening skills, a little bit of spare time and an interest in health and social care this could be the perfect role[…] Read more...
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Broomfield House: What is the council up to? - Comment by Jan-Willem Jonker
22 Sep 2022 Broomfield House Trust chair Colin Younger says in Enfield Dispatch: “The last fire [in 2019] left it with nothing left to restore – it is non-existent.” If that is the case, then why on earth would the National Lottery Heritage Fund be willing to fund a rebuild? There are so many other buildings at risk in Britain where the money[…] Read more...
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Local events for Great Big Green Week 2022
21 Sep 2022 Great Big Green Week 2022 starts on Saturday. As last year, Enfield Climate Action Forum (EnCAF) is organising events throughout the week - though rather fewer than last year, where there were so many events that people found it difficult to choose between them! Read more...
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UPDATE: Broomfield House: What is the council up to?
21 Sep 2022 Since writing the article, I've been informed that yesterday the council invited the Broomfield House Trustees and Friends of Broomfield Park to a meeting on Monday to hear about the council's approach to the National Lottery Heritage Fund and their response. Historic England - also key players - have also been invited to the meeting. So by this time next[…] Read more...
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Collage Voices: Drama, creative writing and music for children and young people
21 Sep 2022 The autumn term is starting at Collage Voices - a performing arts and creative media programme for children, young people and emerging artists. Read more...
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Broomfield House: What is the council up to?
21 Sep 2022 The saga of Broomfield House rolls slowly on, but what kind of ending it is heading towards remains as obscure as ever. Enfield Council has begun the process of submitting a new bid for Lottery Heritage Fund money to be used in connection with the ruined mansion. But the council has given no hint of its proposals to the public[…] Read more...
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Putting PG on the page (again)
20 Sep 2022 It's less than a month since I commented on a new novel that it 'belongs to what I can with confidence assume to be a vanishingly small category: novels where the action takes place in Palmers Green', and what do I find? A feature in this month's Enfield Dispatch under the headline 'Putting Palmers Green on the page' about another[…] Read more...
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'Not only... but also': Local NHS defenders highlight the threats to the health service
20 Sep 2022 Health service campaigner Frances Warboys, a member of Defend Enfield NHS (DENHS), acknowledges the late Queen's recognition of the outstanding public service provided by NHS staff since its inception, and particularly in response to Covid, but warns about grave threats to the future of this groundbreaking British institution. Read more...
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An invitation to become a Friend of the Lakes Estate
17 Sep 2022 Friends of the Lakes Estate do important work promoting the conservation area and protecting it from damaging changes. They are currently looking for new people to join and bring fresh energy and ideas. Read more...
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Schoolkids, tell us how you feel about climate change
16 Sep 2022 The Love Your Planet competition, launching this month in Enfield primary and secondary schools, invites schoolchildren to create a poster or short video on the subject of climate change. Read more...
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A fun day out, biking about the borough
15 Sep 2022 24th September, the date of the bike ride, is a Saturday, not a Sunday. Thanks to James Cracknell for pointing out this error and apologies to the ride organisers and anyone who this has inconvenienced. (Now corrected in the article.) Read more...
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Palmers Green composer reimagines a classic album from the seventies - Comment by Karl Brown
15 Sep 2022 Fans of the album may be interested in a performance at the South Bank Centre on Thursday 17 November as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival – “Tomorrow’s Warriors presents Nu Civilisation Orchestra, with ESKA on vocals and led by Peter Edwards, in an exploration of Joni Mitchell’s Hejira and her work with Charles Mingus.” Read more...
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WEA courses return to Fox Lane and Enfield Town - Comment by Sue Beard
15 Sep 2022 Great courses but unfortunately as they are mostly during the day a bit inaccessible to us wage slave folk. I thought that WEA was about access to learning. You’d really need to be retired unemployed or on maternity leave Read more...
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Changes to waste collections and other council services next week - Comment by Michael Mor
15 Sep 2022 So we have 2 Christmas Days this year! Disgraceful how essential services are cancelled or postponed. Will food banks that normally only open on Mondays, open on Tuesday? Even so, the poor once again suffer! Read more...
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Stonard Road traffic reduction measures under review - Comment by Adrian Day
14 Sep 2022 Sounds like an holistic approach to addressing high traffic levels is needed in that neighbourhood. Read more...
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A fun day out, biking about the borough
14 Sep 2022 On Saturday 24th September join a family-friendly guided and marshalled bike ride around some of the borough's loveliest places (with a brief incursion into Haringey). Read more...
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Palmers Green composer reimagines a classic album from the seventies
13 Sep 2022 A Palmers Green-based composer and producer has released the first of nine tracks from a project reinterpreting the songs on a classic album from 1976. Read more...
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Researching the impact of the rising cost of living on 16 to 25 year olds in the UK
13 Sep 2022 End Child Poverty wants to hear from people aged 16 to 25 who live in the UK, to find out what impact the rising cost of living is having on you - and those you live with. Read more...
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Stonard Road traffic reduction measures under review
13 Sep 2022 Following 'mixed' feedback from residents, Enfield Council have removed the 'point no entry' scheme in Stonard Road. A review of options for the locality is to be carried out and a new consultation is anticipated before the end of the year. Read more...
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Drop in to learn about a living memorial to local victims of Covid
13 Sep 2022 On Sunday 25th September Enfield residents are invited to an informal drop-in event in Enfield Town Park to learn about the progress of a 'living memorial' to local people who have been lost during the Covid pandemic. Read more...
