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A larger ULEZ for London? - Comment by Karl Brown

25 May 2022 TfL are consulting on proposals to expand the (ULEZ) London-wide on 29 August 2023 to help improve air quality and public health, tackle the climate emergency and reduce traffic congestion across Greater London. A booklet – attached - provides details of the linked challenges we all face plus the proposals in detail. Link to the survey below: haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/cleanair?tool=survey_tool File Attachment:File[…] Read more...
Twalk your way to a healthier and happier life

23 May 2022 Walk and talk your way to a healthier and happier life for you and your friends as you take a virtual journey from Enfield Town to England's highest mountain. The Enfield Twalking Challenge starts at the end of May and you have two months to reach the top of Scafell Pike. Just what the doctor ordered! Read more...
Safer Neighbourhood Team priorities survey - Comment by Karl Brown

21 May 2022 Just to add a challenge I'm advised the policing SNT ward areas didn't follow the recent political boundary changes, so individuals who may have recently changed wards for political voting purposes may still be in their previous pre May 22 political wards for policing - or so it applies to PG and Winchmore Hill old political / current policing wards[…] Read more...
Safer Neighbourhood Team priorities survey

20 May 2022 Here's the link for the same survey for Winchmore Hill ward: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/WHSURVEY/ Read more...
Safer Neighbourhood Team priorities survey

20 May 2022 [Original article] Go to original article A message from PCSO Jennifer Arkwright of relevance to people living or with businesses in Palmers Green ward. Jenny has confirmed that for the time being the SN teams are allocated to the old ward boundaries Palmers Green Virtual Ward Panel Survey for May 2022 Dear Ward Member, Please click the link www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/HDER0G/ and complete[…] Read more...
Safer Neighbourhood Team priorities survey

20 May 2022 Palmers Green ward residents are invited to fill out the ward panel survey for May to register their policing priorities. Read more...
Enter your garden in the Enfield in Bloom competition

20 May 2022 A reminder that the closing date for entering Enfield in Bloom is getting nearer - 6th June. Read more...
Council election results in and around Palmers Green - Comment by Ediz Mevlitt

19 May 2022 How’s your quiet road Adrian? Did you hear about the 3 year old child struggling to breathe now so you self gain ? Does that child deserve less because he lives on a boundary road ? Read more...
Council election results in and around Palmers Green - Comment by Ediz Mevlitt

19 May 2022 Actually I’m in process of obtaining thousands of signatures in the Bowes ward who are against the LTN …. I will present it to the council and Bambos. Please stop poisoning our families so advocates get quiet roads at our expense…. Thanks Read more...
Report recommends road pricing as fairer than fuel duty - Comment by Karl Brown

19 May 2022 Occurs to me that if we are looking at a (massive) 17-51% increase in road traffic within a generation then fiddling about with how to tax it might not be the optimal route in addressing a better future for us all. Read more...
A big thank you to our nurses from all around the world!

18 May 2022 Last week nurses around the world were celebrating International Nurses' Day and the team from the North Mid's children's and young people's department were in the mood for some fun! Read more...
Report recommends road pricing as fairer than fuel duty

18 May 2022 [Original article] Go to original article As we transition towards electric vehicles that don’t incur fuel duty, the Treasury faces a revenue loss of £30bn each year. Given the unpopularity of fuel duty, a report by Scott Corfe of the Social Market Foundation explores the case for introducing a nationwide road pricing system in the UK – setting out a[…] Read more...
Report recommends road pricing as fairer than fuel duty

18 May 2022 As we transition towards electric vehicles that don't incur fuel duty, the Treasury faces a revenue loss of £30bn each year. Given the unpopularity of fuel duty, a report by Scott Corfe of the Social Market Foundation explores the case for introducing a nationwide road pricing system in the UK, setting out a model that is fairer than fuel duty,[…] Read more...
Council rivals announce their new teams

18 May 2022 Both Labour and Conservative groups on Enfield Council have chosen their new leadership teams following the elections on 5th May and ahead of the council's annual general meeting next week. Read more...
NHS body surveying patients about their experience with urgent care services

16 May 2022 The NHS body which procures services for patients in five north London boroughs - Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington - is preparing to run a new procurement process to find a provider for NHS 111 and out-of-hours services in the boroughs. As part of the process it is surveying residents about their experiences with these services as currently provided.[…] Read more...
London rail passengers less likely to use trains if services reduced. Are we being used as guinea pigs? - Comment by Karl Brown

16 May 2022 The converse to reducing rail is of course to increase it, and as Crossrail seemed to show, that drives expected demand with areas along the planned route quickly becoming desirable and nearby businesses also paying incremental dues in some form, not least to help fund it. Crossrail 2, before it was cancelled, positioned the New Southgate area and its proposed[…] Read more...
Safer Neighbourhood News for Palmers Green ward - May 2022

16 May 2022 This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Palmers Green ward is now available. Read more...
London rail passengers less likely to use trains if services reduced. Are we being used as guinea pigs? - Comment by Basil Clarke

15 May 2022 [Original article] Go to original article The results of research into how passengers feel about train services in the capital, carried out by the official watchdog organisation London Travelwatch, show dissatisfaction with fare levels, crowding and other aspects of services. A significant finding is that two thirds of passengers say that cuts to services would mean that they would be[…] Read more...
London rail passengers less likely to use trains if services reduced. Are we being used as guinea pigs?

14 May 2022 The results of research into how passengers feel about train services in the capital show dissatisfaction with fare levels, crowding and other aspects of services. A significant finding is that two thirds of passengers say that cuts to services would mean that they would be less likely to use trains. Perhaps people travelling (or no longer travelling) on Great Northern[…] Read more...
Home-Start are recruiting home visiting volunteers - Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Albanian speakers particularly needed

14 May 2022 The local branch of the national charity Home-Start is recruiting home visiting volunteers and is looking in particular for people speaking Albanian, Arabic, Syrian Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Bengali or Pashto or proficient in British Sign Language. Home-Start helps families with young children through challenging times Read more...
Council election results in and around Palmers Green - Comment by Adrian Day

12 May 2022 Agree. Also good to see the 'single issue' anti-LTN candidates fail to get any seats. The claim that only a tiny minority want LTNs is shown to be a lie - both the wards covering the biggest area of the two new LTNS, New Southgate and Palmers Green rejected the Conservatives (who promised to remove them). Read more...
Council election results in and around Palmers Green - Comment by Darren Edgar

12 May 2022 Great to see Doug hold PG, felt like he was being shunted/demoted there, and good swings to Green elsewhere especially Southgate. Read more...
Council election results in and around Palmers Green

11 May 2022 [Original article] Go to original article Below are the election results for the radically reconfigured Palmers Green ward (smaller and shifted westwards) and the six other wards that surround it. Across the borough, Labour won 38 seats and the Conservatives 25 - compared to 2018 this is eight fewer for Labour and eight more for the Conservatives. For analysis of the[…] Read more...
Council election results in and around Palmers Green

11 May 2022 Election results for the reconfigured Palmers Green ward and the six wards that surround it. Read more...
An invitation to an evening of periods, pads and prosecco!

9 May 2022 On 20th May you're invited to an evening of Periods, Pads and Prosecco, where you can learn about Anne Nicholl's work countering period poverty in both Kenya and London. There'll be food and drink provided by Cooking Champions and you can even learn how to hand sew a reusable sanitary pad. If you can't make it, you can still read[…] Read more...
Affordable sessions that will help your child build confidence and learn acting skills

9 May 2022 Is your 8-11 year old interested in drama? At Collage Voices for only £2 for a weekly session they will have the chance to work with professional actor and facilitator Simone Cornelius to build their confidence and learn foundational acting skills through games, exercises, devising and script. Read more...
Would you like to take the lead on keeping our rivers healthy?

6 May 2022 If you love your local waterways and want to make them even better, join the Thames21 accredited Leading Action for Healthy Rivers training! Read more...
Council elections: Today's the day!

4 May 2022 Who are the local candidates in the council elections? What are their policies? And how does Palmers Green fit into the new Enfield wards? Read more...

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Do you remember Colin Fisher?
29 September 2019

We recently had an email from Bente Dalsbaek who is trying to trace members of her family from when they lived in Palmers Green in the 1970s. Can you help? I am writing to you in search for information about a Colin Russell Fisher, born in 1929 who lived at 89 Lakeside Road, The Larches, Palmers Green in […]
Temptation
02 July 2019
A message from Enfield’s past
25 May 2019

Back in 2019, a time capsule was found at Chase Farm Hospital from the days when it was Chase Farm Hospital School, founded to take poor and orphaned children out of the Edmonton workhouse. Here is how it was reported by the BBC.
Improbably famous in Palmers Green #5: Jack Hargreaves
28 December 2018

Its Sunday lunchtime. Probably in winter. From the kitchen, smells of roasting meat and potatoes, bubbling gravy, the windows steaming up. Dad has been pottering around outside in the cold all morning, doing odd jobs but now, while Mum cooks, he is in the living room in his chair in front of the television, still […]
Intimate demolition plans: Just a minute says Nicholas Parsons
26 September 2018

Nicholas Parsons and Steven Berkoff are among the latest stars who have trod the Intimate’s boards and are now calling for the theatre to be saved. Speaking to The Stage this week, Parsons said It would be so sad to see the Intimate Theatre disappear as many artists learned their trade there, perfecting their craft, […]
‘Intimate’ destruction?
07 September 2018

There may soon be one fewer historic building in Palmers Green following news this week of plans to demolish the Intimate Theatre and replace it with a new parish centre and flats. There have long been rumours that the Intimate’s days were numbered. St Monica’s, who own the site, first made a successful planning application […]