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Campaign to 'save' Enfield Southgate constituency calls meeting for Monday
28 Nov 2022 A campaign has been launched in opposition to the proposal by the boundary commissioners for a radical reshaping of the parliamentary constituency in which Palmers Green is located. A public meeting will be held at St Peter's Church, Grange Park, at 8pm on Monday 28th November. Read more...
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Safer Neighbourhood News for Palmers Green ward - November 2022
27 Nov 2022 This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Palmers Green ward is now available. Read more...
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Help with a hamper this Christmas!
25 Nov 2022 Help for Hunger, set up by mother of four and PG resident Rosie Hurndall, is planning to provide 900 Christmas hampers of food and gifts for hungry local people this year. Rosie is appealing for donations of items for the hampers and of money. Read more...
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Green Lanes traders biting the hands that feed them! - Comment by Darren Edgar
24 Nov 2022 Not the first time this group have alienated local customers. Calling Lakes residents snobs etc. Read more...
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Green Lanes traders biting the hands that feed them! - Comment by Adrian Day
24 Nov 2022 It beggars belief - why would local businesses, want to deter people from visiting them by bus? Surely they need all the help they can get in a recession. Read more...
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Green Lanes traders biting the hands that feed them! - Comment by Basil Clarke
23 Nov 2022 Searching (in vain) for some information about tomorrow's Christmas lights event, I came across this on the Green Lanes Business Association website, which goes under the name Love Palmers Green. Since moving to PG in 2007, I long ago lost count of the amount that I have spent in shops on Green Lanes, both north and south of the A406.[…] Read more...
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Join in the joy and fun at the Fore Street Night Festival!
23 Nov 2022 On the afternoon and evening of Thursday 1st December Upper Edmonton's streets will be filled with joyous and fun activities. Visitors will be invited into brilliant spaces and shops on Fore Street for some creative, entertaining and thought-provoking experiences. There will be live music, performances, exhibitions, crafts, food and drink, silent discos, reindeers, a town crier, and more. Read more...
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Second award this year for local tennis club
22 Nov 2022 Members of a tennis club located between Palmers Green and Southgate are celebrating their second award this year and can now boast of having a coach who is now among the best qualified in the area. What's more, the quality of the coffee served in the club's café has received the ultimate accolade from one of its members. Read more...
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High Court judge dismisses legal challenges to Fox Lane LTN - Comment by Karl Brown
21 Nov 2022 Congestion is absolutely an issue, but it would be wrong to view it as other than a very longstanding problem affecting numerous areas. Locally we are not some unique outlier. The opposite, traffic-light roads, will frequently lead to the alternate complaint, best summed up in Grange Park’s Cllr Day’s motion seeking help from speeding traffic, which I recently highlighted. (LTN[…] Read more...
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High Court judge dismisses legal challenges to Fox Lane LTN - Comment by Peter Payne
20 Nov 2022 It was always the case that the judge could not rule on the benefits of the scheme versus the negative impacts as he could never overrule elected officials on their decision. It was always a case that the LTN could only be quashed because correct procedure was not followed. Although the judge agreed there were many deficiencies exposed in the[…] Read more...
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Christmas cooking sessions with Cooking Champions
17 Nov 2022 A chance for some hands-on Christmas cooking lessons at Cooking Champions' brand new kitchen in Ponders End. Suitable for kids and adults. Profits help fund Cooking Champions' invaluable work to feed the hungry. Read more...
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High Court judge dismisses legal challenges to Fox Lane LTN - Comment by Adrian Day
17 Nov 2022 Great news - hopefully the Council will now kick on by ending high traffic neighbourhoods throughout the borough. Every area in Enfield should benefit from the treatment given to the Fox Lane and Bowes areas. Read more...
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Putting a plaza in place - Comment by Adrian Day
17 Nov 2022 I guess the Council can only answer if asked and suggest emailing healthystreets [AT] enfield [DOT] gov [DOT] uk and if you're not happy with response then talk to one of your councillors (who were elected to represent you). And same with the crossing refuges - chat with your councillors. I always try and remember the people working in councils[…] Read more...
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High Court judge dismisses legal challenges to Fox Lane LTN - Comment by Darren Edgar
17 Nov 2022 Brutal dismissal. Some people should be hanging their heads in shame (and putting their hands deeply in their pockets for cajoling Sophia in to being the named claimant now with a costs exposure). Do people learn nothing........??! Read more...
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Paperwork published for call-in of Fox Lanes and Bowes LTN decision
17 Nov 2022 The overview and scrutiny committee will be debating the call-in of the leader's decision re the Fox Lane and Bowes LTNs on Thursday 24th November at 7pm. Click here to read the documentation. Read more...
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Broomfield Park's many friends at hand
16 Nov 2022 In 2021/22 Friends of Broomfield Park volunteers put in more than nine thousand hours of unpaid work to improve the park and help local communities. Read more...
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Broomfield School seeking community input into its future direction
16 Nov 2022 A message to prospective families and community partners from the headteacher of Broomfield School, inviting them to join a focus group to discuss the school's future. Read more...
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High Court judge dismisses legal challenges to Fox Lane LTN - Comment by Karl Brown
16 Nov 2022 Thanks, consolidating a very good, easy to follow set of articles. If I was to add any weight it would be to mention that in the round determining bodies will also be cognisant of policies, strategies and plans of various levels of their respective hierarchies, ie there may be an even bigger influencing picture additionally at play beyond those more[…] Read more...
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High Court judge dismisses legal challenges to Fox Lane LTN - Comment by Basil Clarke
16 Nov 2022 What to make of the judgement? First, that the law is applied using common sense rather than strictly "legalistically". While Enfield Council clearly failed to follow all the procedures properly, the judge's sole interest was in assessing whether or not these failures had materially affected the claimant's ability to learn about about the proposals, experience how they affected her during[…] Read more...
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High Court judge dismisses legal challenges to Fox Lane LTN
15 Nov 2022 In a written judgement issued on 9th November, a High Court judge has dismissed legal challenges against the traffic orders issued by Enfield Council to implement the low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN) scheme in the Fox Lane quieter neighbourhood. Read more...
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Could you help to gift someone a little bit of dignity this Christmas?
13 Nov 2022 For the past two years a group of volunteers have collected bags of toiletries for Cooking Champions and other food banks in Enfield. Could you make up a bag of essential toiletries, plus a few little extras (if you can) to add to the food hampers and make Christmas just that little bit extra special? Read more...
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LTN - is there an alternative? - Comment by Karl Brown
11 Nov 2022 Interesting motion to next Wednesday’s Council meeting (16/11/22), copied below. It highlights traffic (velocity) linked problems in Grange Park where impacted residents seek other than an LTN solution. It thus appears that here is an ideal “clean sheet” opportunity for those not in favour of LTN’s, Grange Park based and beyond, to work up and test the impact and viability[…] Read more...
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Putting a plaza in place - Comment by Karl Brown
11 Nov 2022 Can I try and sweep up a few strands up here. If there’s a wish to ask the Council something, approach your councilor. That’s their role. Who and where to sit? Well, the UK doesn’t do, “you can do” notices, that’s all too Napoleonic – as well as inevitably enormously complex. But you do find, “don’t” notices. I’m not aware[…] Read more...
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Putting a plaza in place - Comment by Darren Edgar
11 Nov 2022 Maybe because nobody else is making such a big issue of this, Ann? Go ask yourself if it is important to you. You obviously have a direct line in to someone given your earlier post re the parklet relocation. And how is Bourne Hill now unsafe to cross?! There's two zebra crossings in the stretch from The Woodman to Southgate[…] Read more...
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Putting a plaza in place - Comment by Ann Jones
11 Nov 2022 Who is responsible for it at the Council? It’s strange that our community groups haven’t been given an answer to this fairly basic question. The Council should be more transparent for £100k+ of public money. They were sadly very quick to tell me that funding is unlikely in the short term when I asked about putting a pedestrian refuge on[…] Read more...
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Putting a plaza in place - Comment by Adrian Day
10 Nov 2022 Why not ask the Council? Read more...
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Our new constituency - long, thin and misshapen? - Comment by Roger Blows
10 Nov 2022 This weird jigsaw is a creature bred by the bean-counters of the Boundary Commission, notionally in the interests of fairness. More correctly, it’s the product of years of bad government of the right and of the left, unable/unwilling to get real about Parliamentary reform. The perpetual spurious defence of First Past the Post is that it protects the sacred bond[…] Read more...
