6 Sep 2026 Palmers Green author Stephen Cox will be launching The Crooked Medium's Guide to Terror at the All Good Bookshop on Saturday 19th September.

2 Sep 2026 Join this friendly u3a course, starting this month at Palmers Green Library: an opportunity to build confidence, meet people, develop your own personal strategy for retirement, and explore new ideas and possibilities.

1 Sep 2026 On Friday 25th September the stage at Chickenshed in Southgate will be graced, if that's the right word, by actor and comedian Ricky Tomlinson, and the audience will be treated to “an intimate, funny and revealing conversation about his extraordinary life and career”. This is Ricky's only London date on his tour and he will be donating all proceedings to[…]

30 Aug 2026 Enfield Climate Action Forum (EnCAF) have released a recording of this week's session on air pollution. In Enfield borough there are the usual sources of unhealthy air pollution - road traffic and, particularly in winter, gas cookers and central heating - but on top of that people living or working in crowded south eastern parts of the borough are forced[…]

25 Aug 2026 This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Palmers Green ward is now available.

21 Aug 2026 Thank you for raising this issue. My wife and I are in our late seventies and are constantly traumatised by cars with modified exhausts making an awful noise along our otherwise quiet residential street. They seem to pass by more frequently and are getting louder. No longer satisfied with making a 'pop-pop' noise, some cars now produce what sounds like[…]

19 Aug 2026 [Original article] Reader Panayiota raises important points about the negative impacts of noise pollution, especially on vulnerable people. Dear Palmers Green Community, I am writing because I have noticed that the issue of fumes and air pollution is rightly discussed within the community, but noise pollution does not seem to receive the same attention. Noise pollution can have a serious[…]

19 Aug 2026 Enfield and Southgate Lifelong Learning don't shy away from important questions, and you needn't either. Their new series of philosophical discussions is the first of several courses that begin in September in Enfield Town. Other courses starting soon cover three aspects of history: art history, local industrial history and world history.

19 Aug 2026 Enfield Climate Action Forum this month investigates the harms caused by polluted air and the initiatives being taken to improve matters. In towns and cities across the UK air pollution frequently hits illegal levels that are harmful to everyone, especially those most vulnerable. Air pollution is the biggest environmental threat to health in the UK and causes 40,000 early deaths[…]

19 Aug 2026 Across the UK air pollution frequently hits illegal levels that are harmful to everyone, especially those most vulnerable. Air pollution is the biggest environmental threat to health in the UK and causes 40,000 early deaths each year. Find out more by joining a free online meeting at 7pm on Wednesday 26th August.

19 Aug 2026 Jeremy Buck wrote (message 7610) : The Grey-Green Coaches offices and garage were at Stamford Hill not Wood Green. The company ran services to the east coast...rather than east London !   Jeremy is of course right. My brain and memory have become addled with age and I've confused two completely separate things. The Grey Green garage was on the[…]

19 Aug 2026 Wonderful news filling most UK press this week - following a Lancet Public Health report - that ULEZ is already having visible effects to retarded lung growth in our primary school children. Children in London whose lung capacity was deemed "clinically impaired" fell from 14% to 9%. “Stunned” (at the speed of beneficial change) was the reported reaction of the[…]

17 Aug 2026 Citizens Advice Enfield are recruiting volunteers to work as adviceline assessors or provide admin support.

13 Aug 2026 Reader Panayiota raises important points about the negative impacts of noise pollution, especially on vulnerable people: I am writing because I have noticed that the issue of fumes and air pollution is rightly discussed within the community, but noise pollution does not seem to receive the same attention. Constant traffic noise, revving engines, horns, construction, fireworks and other loud or[…]

13 Aug 2026 The Grey-Green Coaches offices and garage were at Stamford Hill not Wood Green. The company ran services to the east coast...rather than east London !

13 Aug 2026 [Original article] A series of strikes by bus drivers employed by Arriva North London starts on Friday morning and is likely to mean that there will be no service on strike days on all the main routes that serve Palmers Green. The W6 will be one of many local bus routes that will be affected by the planned strikes (photo: Sean Cirillo[…]

12 Aug 2026 A series of strikes by bus drivers employed by Arriva North London starts on Friday morning and is likely to mean that there will be no service on strike days on all the main routes that serve Palmers Green. The strikes are a protest against the alleged failure of Arriva management to provide acceptable conditions in bus cabs during hot[…]

12 Aug 2026 Though the days of toxic “pea souper” fogs and coal fires are thankfully well behind us, in many parts of London the air remains injurious to health, one of the chief sources of pollution being road traffic, another gas cookers and central heating. One of the campaigns working hard to improve the capital's air quality both inside and outside the[…]

12 Aug 2026 The Enfield Society is inviting people to enter photographs in a competition with the title My Enfield

9 Aug 2026 A “dedicated group of local volunteers” are filling the gap left when funding was cut for local WEA courses, offering lectures and talks in Enfield Town that will be “a source of personal inspiration, shared experiences and lasting friendships”. Subjects taught include local and world history, philosophy and art history.

5 Aug 2026 Local musicians, community groups and schools are among those invited to take part in a series of events to mark next year's centenary of the Broomfield Park bandstand, which, it is hoped, will be the start of regular use of the historic structure.

29 Jul 2026 Healthwatch Enfield have publshed their annual report for 2025/26. This may be the last such publication, as a bill currently going through Parliament will abolish the countrywide network of Healthwatch “watchdog” bodies.

29 Jul 2026 Healthwatch Enfield's new guide is packed with practical ways to get involved, share feedback, raise concerns, and help shape services for the future

29 Jul 2026 Hi all, Patrick here, autistic artist in Palmers Green. It's been years since I posted, especially as I'm not on social media either. I hope it's ok to post something here. I'm working on a sound project set in 1990 and I was hoping someone in the area might still have a typewriter. I'd like to use my Dictaphone to[…]

29 Jul 2026 Edmonton-based London Cycling Club is running free cycle training for beginners aged 6–13 on 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th August.

28 Jul 2026 The High Court’s decision to quash Spurs’ planning permission to build on Whitewebbs public park is to be welcomed. The plan, constructing 10 football pitches and the exclusion of us, the public, with the permanent loss of 16 hectares of public parkland for a consideration of little more than £2m spread over two decades never made any sense to me.[…]

27 Jul 2026 [Original article] A High Court judge has ruled that Enfield Council's previous Labour administration acted unlawfully when it granted planning permission for Tottenham Hotspur football club to build a women's training centre on part of the former golf course in Whitewebbs Park. The High Court judge's decision followed a judicial review carried out at the initiative of the campaign group[…]

27 Jul 2026 A High Court judge has ruled that Enfield Council's previous Labour administration acted unlawfully when it granted planning permission for Tottenham Hotspur football club to build a women's training centre on part of the former golf course in Whitewebbs Park.