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Connaught Gardens low-traffic neighbourhood - why is it needed?

Enfield Council's plan for a low-traffic neighbourhood in the Connaught Gardens area was drawn up after an origin and destination survey using automatic number plate recognition revealed that there are multiple routes through the area used by drivers cutting through between main roads.
Need any horticultural help this winter?

Vic Black, one of the volunteers who have been maintaining and replanting the historic long border in Broomfield Park, is a qualified gardener and is available for work redesigning or just tending gardens in the Palmers Green/Bounds Green area.
Have a letter sent from the North Pole this Christmas

Christmas is fast approaching and visiting Santa in his grotto may be tough this year. But that doesn't mean Santa can't bring joy to all the good girls and boys. NIghtingale Cancer Support want to keep the Christmas magic alive for your little ones this year with their Letters from the North Pole
What next for Enfield's heritage?

Nat Buckeridge from Enfield Council's Place Directorate has sent information regarding an online discussion about the council's heritage strategy on 9th December. He also has news about a Culture, Heritage and Creative Industries newsletter.
Tales of Life under Lockdown - the book

Winchmore Hill photographer Katrina Campbell is planning to turn her online exhibition Tales of Life under Lockdown into a book with the title When We All Stayed at Home and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to have it printed and published in time for Christmas. The idea isn't to create a large coffee table book to be saved for special occasions, but an A5 volume that can be shared at the kitchen table or read on the bus. What an excellent way of recording and remembering an extraordinary year!
Fancy featuring in a festive film?

To spread a bit of Christmas cheer, local arts organisation Tiger Monkey are making a short festive film for Enfield Council and you could be in it - without even leaving your living room.
Covid - the importance of ventilating rooms

A video and article explaining how easily the coronavirus can spread within an unventilated room.
BBC recruiting north London families for a new food show

The BBC is looking for families based in the Enfield area to take part in a new cooking show.
Safer Neighbourhood News for Palmers Green ward

This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Palmers Green ward is now available.
Police seize firearms, ammunition and cash in PG and Southgate vehicle stops

Three people have been arrested and a firearm, ammunition and £9,000 in cash seized after two vehicles were stopped by specialist officers in John Bradshaw Street N14 and Bourne Hill N13.

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Locked down but not giving up
Andrew Warshaw on how Enfield Town FC have been managing through another football shutdown Like thousands of part-time football clubs up and down the country, Enfield Town have been hit hard by weeks of inaction caused by the second national lockdown, which once again decimated non-league teams both financially and in terms of fitness and […]
Revealing Enfield’s links to the slave trade
Palmers Green resident Sylvia Collicott describes the results of her independent research into the borough’s links with the Atlantic slave trade The British government finished paying a long-term loan in 2015. Two centuries ago, in 1833, the government of the day borrowed £20million (£2.4billion in today’s money) from the Rothschild and Montefiore banks, to finance […]
Value of volunteers
Frances Button meets some of the people who have helped Enfield charities keep going in a difficult year Meandering around Enfield Town nowadays, it becomes apparent how events since early March have impacted on businesses. It isn’t unusual to see empty shops. One sector that has been really hit hard is the charity and voluntary […]
Major Edmonton Green redevelopment revealed
Chance to have say before planning application is submitted, reports James Cracknell The owners of Edmonton Green Shopping Centre want to build 1,500 new homes – including a 30-storey tower block – as part of a sweeping redevelopment of the site. While the existing three tower blocks, ASDA, and the bus station would be retained, […]
Curtain’s up for historic theatre
Report by Simon Allin, Local Democracy Reporter The curtain looks set to fall on one of Enfield’s cultural landmarks after councillors gave the go-ahead for its demolition. The decision means the historic Intimate Theatre in Palmers Green can be knocked down to make way for a new church hall and six two-bedroom flats. Built in […]
Colourful crossings
Artists commissioned by Enfield Council to design new road markings Five pedestrian crossings in the borough have been brightened up by local artists. Enfield Council commissioned “colourful, playful designs” for crossings in Angel Edmonton, Edmonton Green, Enfield Town, Palmers Green and Southgate, as part of an initiative to see “how art can transform public spaces”. […]
Consultation on Enfield Town revamp
Chance for resident and businesses to have their say, reports James Cracknell A consultation is ending tomorrow on new plans to revamp Enfield Town, providing more pedestrian crossings, cycle lanes, public spaces, and introducing a 20mph speed limit. Enfield Council was awarded £6million by Transport for London last year as part of its ‘Liveable Neighbourhoods’ […]
No-one injured in police station ‘attack’
Incident at Edmonton Police Station ‘not terror related’, reports James Cracknell Edmonton Police Station was last night “attacked” by a man who rammed a vehicle into the main entrance and then set alight to petrol poured in the street. No-one was hurt in the incident in Fore Street on Wednesday just before 7pm and the […]

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Do you remember Colin Fisher?
We recently had an email from Bente Dalsbaek who is trying to trace members of her family from when they...
Temptation
We recently had an email from Bente Dalsbaek who is trying to trace members of her family from when they...
Improbably famous in Palmers Green #5: Jack Hargreaves
Its Sunday lunchtime. Probably in winter. From the kitchen, smells of roasting meat and potatoes, bubbling gravy, the windows steaming...
Intimate demolition plans: Just a minute says Nicholas Parsons
Nicholas Parsons and Steven Berkoff are among the latest stars who have trod the Intimate’s boards and are now calling...
‘Intimate’ destruction?
There may soon be one fewer historic building in Palmers Green following news this week of plans to demolish the...
Guest post: Palmers Green’s Cormac O’Duffy: the music of reconciliation
A memory of a talented Palmers Green family by journalist Frances Sealey. Visiting Dresden in the last week was quite...

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Robert Gordon Clark & Tony Travers: Change, churn and more to come in London’s councils

They say buses have a habit of coming either not at all or in groups, although right now, if they...
2020 Spending Review: Government infrastructure spending to ‘pivot away’ from London

National infrastructure spending will “significantly shift” away from London in the coming years and towards the “regions and nations” of...
Sadiq Khan has 21-point lead in new London Mayor opinion poll

The latest survey of Londoners’ voting intentions in advance of the rescheduled London Mayor election next spring has found Labour...
Sadiq Khan and business groups set out London economic recovery roadmap

Sadiq Khan and members of City Hall’s new London Covid Business Forum have set out a 12-month roadmap for economic...
Croydon: Council-funded housing company has ‘seriously underperformed’ says PwC report

A property developer set up by Croydon Council has “seriously underperformed” and put the authority at financial risk, an independent...
Transport for London figures present mixed picture of autumn cycling levels

Great hopes have been expressed for a big increase in cycling in London as a silver lining to the dark...
Does the Treasury’s Green Book really have an ‘anti-Northern bias’?

A core claim of today’s populist “north south divide” narrative, to which Boris Johnson’s government, Corbynite Labour and the Guardian...
Darren Rodwell: Give local government the powers it needs to ensure building fire safety

Last week, the Grenfell Inquiry heard a former employee of the company that supplied insulation used in the tower’s refurbishment...

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Sadiq unveils plan to build new social rent homes
The plan will run alongside his existing 2016-23 affordable homes programme which is being extended by one year due to...
Sadiq invests £10m in green projects and jobs
The funding has been allocated to ‘green’ projects which will help create up to 1,000 new jobs while cleaning up...
Mayor confirms City Hall’s move to Royal Docks will go ahead
Sadiq Khan’s office say proceeding with the move will act as a catalyst” for the regeneration of Royal Docks.
Ministers and City Hall agree new 6-month TfL funding package
A funding package worth up to £1.8bn will allow TfL to keep services running for the next 6 months.
Mayor rejects Goverment’s ‘unacceptable’ conditions for TfL funding
Sadiq Khan has rejected Government demands that he extend the Congestion Charge zone to the North and South circular roads.
Former City Hall aide Neale Coleman joins Govt’s National Infrastructure Commission
Neale Coleman has been appointed to the body which advises ministers on the UK’s major infrastructure needs.
City Hall unveils new heavy vehicle scrappage scheme
The new scrappage scheme follows an earlier scheme which saw 5,000 polluting vans taken off the roads.
TfL gets planning permission to build 460 new homes in Southall
The scheme will see 460 new 1, 2, and 3 bedroom properties built on land next to Southall station.
Mayor commissions research into future of central London’s economy
City Hall says the viability of the capital’s commercial and cultural centres is under "immediate threat".
Last year saw largest ever number of City Hall backed affordable homes get underway
The Assembly’s latest annual Affordable Housing Monitor shows 17,256 affordable starts got underway in 2019/20.