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TOPIC: Ten years of PGC!
Ten years of PGC!
10 Jan 2023 00:58
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Basil Clarke  Topic Author |
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What was PGC reporting back in 2013?News reports came to PGC in January 2013. At first not very often, but the frequency of reporting soon gathered pace. The list below shows the first 25 stories that were reported on - the themes will be familiar today! Click on the titles to read the full reports. Almost all the news items reported on PGC over the last decade (more than 2700) are still on the website. To see them all, go to www.pgweb.uk/news. They're in reverse date order, so it you want to see the earliest, scroll to the bottom of the page and use the navigation bar to go to the last page. Concern over fall in number of shops in Palmers Green Town CentrePublished: 10 June 2013 Category: Palmers Green Town Centre Council seeking views on ways to tackle homelessnessWritten by Basil Clarke Published: 08 June 2013 Category: News Urgent call for community input to new waste planPublished: 04 June 2013 Category: North London Waste Plan Appeal to help block Pinkham Way tree clearance planPublished: 28 May 2013 Category: Pinkham Way Public consulted over North London Waste Plan relaunchPublished: 24 May 2013 Category: North London Waste Plan Primary school places campaign enters new phasePublished: 24 May 2013 Category: Schools Council consulting on 20mph zone proposalPublished: 21 May 2013 Category: PedestriansArea Forum minutes publishedPublished: 19 May 2013 Category: Planning & DevelopmentPark Friends disappointed by flower bed cutbacksPublished: 12 May 2013 Category: Parks & Open SpaceSouthgate May Fair to raise funds for Teenage Cancer TrustPublished: 02 May 2013 Category: NewsPlanning Committee go-ahead for controversial housing schemePublished: 26 April 2013 Category: Planning & DevelopmentgDemo planned to protest against betting shop applicationPublished: 17 April 2013 Category: Planning & DevelopmentNew betting shop proposed for Palmers Green TrianglePublished: 14 April 2013 Category: Planning & DevelopmentTemporary home planned for Palmers Green LibraryPublished: 12 April 2013 Category: Planning & DevelopmentCouncil consults over pedestrian crossing arrangementsPublished: 12 April 2013 Category: Pedestrians Council launches Cleaner Streets campaignPublished: 11 April 2013 Category: Council Services Concern about primary school provision to be voiced at public meeting with Enfield CouncilPublished: 02 April 2013 Category: Schools Enfield Council reducing street lighting to cut costsPublished: 22 March 2013 Category: Traffic, Roads & Parking Broomfield House campaigners considering next movePublished: 18 March 2013 Category: Broomfield House RestorationCouncil publishes minutes of controversial Planning Panel meetingPublished: 17 March 2013 Category: Planning & Development Residents asked to help spot diseased ash treesPublished: 05 March 2013 Category: Environment & Sustainability Petition launched to oppose North Circ housing plansPublished: 02 March 2013 Category: Planning & Development New islands will make it safer to cross Green LanesPublished: 25 February 2013 Category: Pedestrians Residents consulted over crime fighting prioritiesPublished: 23 February 2013 Category: Crime and Policing Grovelands Centenary organisers call for volunteer helpersPublished: 10 February 2013 Category: News Concern over North Circ housing plansPublished: 11 January 2013 Category: Planning & Development What was on?While nearly all news reports and forum discussions are still on the website, that isn't the case with historic What's On pages as the database entries will have been deleted. However, the British Library has preserved hundreds of events pages in the UK Web Archive. Finding them isn't terribly straightforward though. I recommend going to https://www.webarchive.org.uk/en/ukwa/ then typing into the search box. Among the results, find a page that's around the date of the event you're interested in, then use the menu at the top of the page, click on What's On and you should find the events that were current at the time. Some links will work, other won't, but it's an interesting way of looking back in time. Best to use a computer rather than a phone.
The future?I don't suppose the website and newsletter will still be around in another ten years, but who knows? It's been a pleasure and a privilege so far, so perhaps I'll still be typing away, or perhaps someone else will have taken over, in which case it will probably look very different. |
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Ten years of PGC!
12 Jan 2023 11:10
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Adrian Day  |
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Thanks for all you hard work!
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Ten years of PGC!
12 Jan 2023 12:10
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Colin Younger |
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It's amazing how quickly time seems to have passed. Given the problems we originally had in finding someone to set the site up and continue to support it, the development in the last 10 years is a tribute to Basil.
The site's origin was in the opposition to the way that the council handled the sale of the old Southgate town hall. Perhaps apocryphally, a Councillor was reported to have said that there was no need to bother about opposition because those little people in Palmers Green would never get their act together. In order to prove them wrong, we originally tried the traditional route of setting up a "Palmers Green" committee, but there were so many existing groups with well defined roles, adding an overarching Palmers Green one wasn't the answer. Instead, as a minimum, setting up a website to inform and mobilise residents and businesses seemed an alternative. Little did we know how hard it would be to find someone to carry this out, until Basil took this on. The rest, as they say, is 10 years' history. Keep well Basil! |
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Ten years of PGC!
12 Jan 2023 15:12
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Karl Brown |
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“Amazing how quickly time seems to have passed” highlights Colin yet looking at the decade old headlines: the waste plan ordered to be restarted, problems with the clock on the Triangle, controversy over a planned betting shop, 20mph, and worries about shops closing, it could almost be 10 days ago! But a lot has changed.
I would add a shout out to Winkworth for inputting £500 to the startup, sponsoring the site for years until Basil started to fund it all himself. Nor should Philip pass as “merely” the originator of the PG festival. A local hero who opened what is now The Yard, at the time the first station café on the complete rail line; our (then) brilliant farmers market; and an art gallery in the train station waiting room. Great things have continued in our area up to the present through for instance park improvements and related breakthroughs being worked on now by the FOBP leadership team, the Greenery stretching into new areas and the Action Team upping the high street, station and more. PGC highlights many other great works, both here and also spreading out from here. Some new neighbours from Crouch End way said they were staggered by the weight of volunteering activity in PG. What of the next ten years as Basil asks? The last decade and more was arguably guided by the attached manifesto. It’s a different community now with eg less public money and new minority populations of scale, some ongoing challenges such as retail and traffic plus new (?) ones such as climate, a wider aging population and how to bank those Brexit opportunities. I understand the intent for the first new PG ward Forum at the end of this month (see PGC site for detail) will be to look at any bigger themes we can all work towards in the medium term (say 3+ years) rather than debate a plethora of micro, more personal issues, plus of course, LTN’s. Let’s see what happens on the day. Attachments: |
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