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Wanted: Volunteer Poppy Appeal collectors

The Royal British Legion is recruiting local Poppy Appeal collectors for the period running up to this year's Remembrance Day.

New exhibition at the Southgate gallery

Currently showing at the Southgate Gallery until mid October (in addition to the continuing mixed media exhibition of various local artists), Mary Horsfield, a member of the Enfield Art Circle, has several examples of her work on display. Mary's colourful and detailed acrylic paintings on canvas show a variety of flowers in Victorian planters plus recognisable scenes viewed through imaginary...

Thousands answer call to lobby landlords for a PG cinema and arts hub

Only three days after its launch, a petition designed to convince landlords of popular demand for a cinema and arts hub in Palmers Green is well on its way to accumulating 2500 signatures. Started by the Palmers Green Action Team, it expresses the frustration felt by the team's members and by a potential cinema operator at the unwillingness of landlords who own suitable properties in PG to lease...

Could a new market and community space create a more people-friendly Wood Green?

Four years ago Haringey Council dropped a plan to totally reshape the centre of Wood Green, demolishing the Mall, library and Morrisons, and many other buildings, and creating new squares and a boulevard, with views over to Alexandra Palace. So shoppers and diners continue to contend with some of the worst aspects of 1960s and 1970s town planning. What could be done, on smaller scale, to improve...

Pop into the patisserie for a second helping of PG children's author's thumb-sized adventures

A children's author whose plot ideas came to her while daydreaming when waiting for trains to Palmers Green will be signing copies of her books at the Holtwhites shop on Aldermans Hill on 14th October.

Safer Neighbourhood News for Palmers Green ward

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

PG author's second novel out in paperback next month

A Palmers Green author whose work has won critical acclaim will next month be launching the paperback edition of his second novel. This October will also mark ten years since he committed to being a writer.

Rogue traders warning: If in doubt, keep them out!

Palmers Green Safer Neighbourhoods Team are warning residents about the severe financial risks involved when dealing with rogue traders, in particular roofers. Accompanying their monthly email newsletter is information about how a Southgate resident was nearly persuaded to sign over their property to a rogue trader.

Call for public to attend rescheduled local plan council debate

The debate about a petition demanding adequate debate about the new Enfield Local Plan has been rescheduled and will now be held at 7pm on Wednesday 12th October at a newly convened meeting of Enfield Council. Campaigners are asking supporters to fill the public gallery and, if available, any overspill capacity in the Civic Centre.

Join Healthwatch Enfield as a community outreach volunteer

Healthwatch Enfield are recruiting community outreach volunteers. Their role is to be 'out there' talking and listening to patients, community members and/or people who use health and social care services. If you enjoy chatting to people, have good listening skills, a little bit of spare time and an interest in health and social care this could be the perfect role for you.

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First Meridian Water homes go on sale
One and two-bed flats are now available at the ex-industrial site in Edmonton for up to £512,000, reports James Cracknell After more than a decade of waiting, the first of the new homes being built at Meridian Water have gone on sale – with two-bed flats selling for over half-a-million pounds. A new sales website […]
Enfield’s first ‘community kitchen’ opens in Ponders End
Cooking Champions founder says some of the people they help can’t afford to turn on their oven, reports James Cracknell Enfield’s first dedicated community kitchen has opened in Ponders End after a successful fundraising appeal. Cooking Champions, a social enterprise that cooks and distributes hot meals and food parcels for vulnerable people, raised £15,000 to […]
London’s Air Ambulance launches appeal for new helicopters
Charity makes biggest-ever appeal to replace ageing helicopter fleet by 2024 London’s Air Ambulance Charity has launched an appeal to raise £15million and replace its helicopter fleet – with its current helicopters now “increasingly difficult to maintain”. As part of the launch, hundreds of volunteers, staff and off-duty crew from across the charity hit the […]
Cash to help Enfield charity offer cost-of-living advice
Citizens Advice Enfield has been granted £130,800 to help meet rising demand for advice amid cost-of-living crisis The local branch of a leading social advice charity has received a grant of £130,800 to help fund its vital work this winter – in anticipation of increased demand from local people during the worsening cost-of-living crisis. Citizens […]
School pupils help transform playground into wild haven
Rain gardens installed at Oakthorpe Primary School to reduce flood risk and boost wildlife Pupils at Oakthorpe Primary School in Bowes have helped reduce flood risk and boost wildlife through the creation of a unique sustainable drainage system (Suds) in their playground. The installation of the Suds has been led by Enfield Council to create […]
Record heatwave’s impact on high street ‘similar to pandemic’
New data show how high temperatures affected the economy, reports Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter Record high temperatures in London this summer had a similar impact on visitor footfall as the introduction of new pandemic restrictions in December 2021, according to City Hall. According to new figures from High Streets Data Service, the number of […]
Pubs in crisis as bills rise
Most independent pub owners spoken to by the Dispatch say they are at risk of going out of business this winter, reports James Cracknell Pubs across Enfield could go out of business within months as they face spiralling energy bills as well as lower sales from customers looking to save money amid rising inflation. Although […]
Khan forced to appear at City Hall hearing over Dick departure
Cressida Dick said to have been ‘intimidated’ into leaving role in charge of Met Police, reports Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter Sadiq Khan will be formally summonsed to appear in front of the London Assembly to answer questions about his role in Cressida Dick’s resignation as Metropolitan Police commissioner earlier this year. The mayor of […]

Palmers Green Jewel in the North

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 […]