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Healthwatch Enfield is running a survey to understand why people miss cervical and breast cancer screenings and how to make them more accessible (Healthwatch Enfield 28/2/2025)
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News, whats on listings and discussions for Palmers Green and surrounding areas
News, whats on listings and discussions for Palmers Green and surrounding areas
15 Feb 2025 Thanks Mark for another very interesting post. Can I take issue? I can't agree your point 1, regarding it as unreasonable that Bowes LTN residents should not hope for better access than via the N Circ, on the grounds that other roads only have N Circ access. First, such roads never had horrific rat run problems so never required an[…]
13 Feb 2025 In the context of David’s post, it is understandable that long-time activists against low-traffic initiatives would back the petition, for they will have a clear-eyed view of it as a vehicle to challenge an LTN. But – as I have found in conversations -- others will have signed in a more casual way, believing one can ‘add on’ private access[…]
13 Feb 2025 Having responded to Mark, a quick response to David Beadle, if I may. I don't know whether David has the benefit of being in an LTN. David writes "And the petition (and many public consultations) make it very clear that residents do not accept that their streets have become any safer..." First, the petition had the great benefit of brevity.[…]
13 Feb 2025 I welcome Mark's comments, as a fellow resident and car-owner in the Bowes LTN. It is very important that views both for and against a suggested change are heard. Almost by definition, any change affecting some thousands of people will benefit some and disbenefit others. As always the key thing is balancing the benefits and disbenefits. However I would just[…]
13 Feb 2025 They do so understand what an LTN is, and this one and many others have very conspicuously failed to incentivise any switch from private car to more sustainable travel modes: you only have to look at the multiple large cars per household in the Fox Lane LTN to see that. (And if there was any legitimate evidence of such switching,[…]
12 Feb 2025 As a Bowes LTN resident (and car driver and cyclist), living in New Southgate ward, I find the so-called ‘13 Roads’ petition to exempt local residents from ANPR restrictions deeply flawed. The effect, in a nutshell, would be the semi-privatisation of these roads for the exclusive benefit of local car drivers. This petition fundamentally misunderstands what an LTN is. A[…]
12 Feb 2025 [Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click here A call by residents of a low-traffic neighbourhood to drive past a camera-controlled filter point was discussed at a council meeting this week. A petition signed by 1,683 people living in the Bowes Primary Area Quieter Neighbourhood demanding an additional access point by car to their streets was debated at Monday's meeting[…]
10 Feb 2025 In the face of a significant spike in pedestrian deaths on London's roads, road danger reduction campaigners are calling on the Metropolitan Police to pay significantly more attention to reducing road danger and eliminating casualties on the capital's roads. You too can join them in responding to a consultation on crime and policing which ends this Wednesday.
6 Feb 2025 Even if the council were able to meet the house building targets there is an issue which I have seen reported in other boroughs where several schemes are at an advanced stage of construction where the national or local power grid doesn't have the capability to supply enough electricity. This has happened in both Southall and Ealing and two sites[…]
5 Feb 2025 Readers George and Maria Panayi have launched a petition on change.org complaining that Enfield Council is not providing adequate street cleaning. For five years since the current Enfield council administration, our borough has become a dirty shadow of its former self. It is filthy. Waste services and street cleaning departments need to be put into special measures, as indeed do[…]
5 Feb 2025 Dieter Kaiser from Goch in Germany has been in touch trying to find the address of a house in Farndale Avenue, Palmers Green, that he visited in 1986. At the time a friend named Chris Billington lived there. If you know the answer, please email it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to[…]
1 Feb 2025 The Bike Project is a charity that supports refugees and asylum seekers by providing them with a refurbished bike. They're setting up a collection point at a church not far from Turnpike Lane station that will be open to accept donations between 27th February and 1st March. All sizes and types of bikes will be accepted! Children’s bikes are especially[…]
30 Jan 2025 I just wanted to give my support to this campaign having been involved in a previous one back in December 2020 which was initiated by a cross-party group of Enfield councillors including Cllr Maria Alexandrou, Cllr Dinah Barry and Cllr Vicki Pite. The strap line we came up with back then was 'Get in Gear for your Smear'. However the[…]
29 Jan 2025 Apologies for repeating some things from my earlier post - this new post was written primarily for this week's weekly newsletter. This Thursday is the last of six days of hearings for the first stage of the Examination in Public of the Enfield Local Plan - with the possibility that it might spill over into Friday morning. I've listened to[…]
29 Jan 2025 [Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click here To mark Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, we feature a "Public Cervix Announcement" by Nightingale Cancer Support, while Healthwatch Enfield launch an online survey designed to find out why the uptake of screening for both cervical cancer and breast cancer is so low in the borough. Cervical Cancer Awareness Month By now you've[…]
24 Jan 2025 James Cracknell reports on Thursday's second session of the examination in public of the Enfield Local Plan. Council admits it won’t be able to meet London Plan housing target for Enfield His report on the first day of the hearings: Khan set to support new housing on London’s Green Belt for first time, inquiry hears You can watch recordings of[…]
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