The discussion ideas Basil promotes look sound. This plan is important to all and so is worthy of reading and discussing. Doubtless the housing / green belt issue will take centre stage, but hyper local issues are also important as[…]
Read more...[Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click here Enfield Council has today published the draft version of its proposed Local Plan for the period 2024 to 2041. There now follows a 13-week period during which councillors will be able to[…]
Read more...For more about what Solace do, watch their charity video and visit www.solacewomensaid.org/watch-our-charity-film/
Read more...[Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click here Eastenders actor Milly Zero plays the main role in a video made by the domestic violence charity Solace to launch its Safe This Christmas fundraising campaign. The campaign aims to raise awareness[…]
Read more...Here's another charity participating in the Big Give Christmas Campaign: Living Streets (formerly the Pedestrians Association). They've been campaigning for a better deal for people on foot since the 1930s and it was their campaigning that led to the introduction[…]
Read more...Report, report and report. That was the key message for us all emerging from the latest PG CAPE. Without information crime statistics will be misleading and with many more eyes and ears across our community than the police can muster,[…]
Read more...Reporting and other helpful things to do. We can each have a role in protecting ourselves, our community and to help the police to do likewise. Here’s a list of things we can easily undertake. Reporting crime and also incidents[…]
Read more...In the spirit of the Radio 4 programme The Long View, local historian Joe Studman in an Enfield Dispatch article draws our attention to the negative public reaction to the enclosure (ie the transfer of publicly accessible land to private[…]
Read more...Ah, if only! One of the sad things about the history of Broomfield House since the 1984 fire is just how many similar, positive, schemes, have been proposed. The fundamental issue has been the inability to find the necessary funds[…]
Read more...Gentlemen, Re - Broomfield House, Broomfield Park, Palmers Green, London N13. Several public consultations since the 1980’s to determine a viable future for Broomfield House have proven unsuccessful, from which most, or all of the suggestions offered have proved inadequate[…]
Read more...There's a consultation event about this project on 2nd December at Green Towers, round the back of the Edmonton Green shopping centre. Find out about a new project for young people and the community being developed at the Charity School,[…]
Read more...Almost 45 acres. I can't say if it's correct, I'm quoting Spurs' consultant's own figure - see consultation board #4 from link in earlier posting. Maybe they have it wrong?
Read more..."Over 40 acres of currently open, wilding land will be lost to public access" - that's not correct, is it? I didn't think half the golf course measured 40 acres.
Read more...Hi, Thanks for the post. A bit of trivia, I think that Enfield has more surviving Edward VIII postboxes than anywhere else in the UK. About seven or eight in total. There were only about 100 of them because he[…]
Read more...[Original article] Article not displaying properly? Click here The Big Give Christmas Challenge runs for a week from next Tuesday. The Christmas Challenge utilises Big Give's ‘pledge’ model of match funding. The Pledge model offers supporters of participating charities the[…]
Read more...Darren Edgar has one view, the Enfield / Spurs case, and that’s fair enough. I’m a little late to this, although with a judge now accepting there is a case to answer, perhaps not too late. This is how I[…]
Read more...“Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've gotTill it's gone”So wrote the great Joni Mitchell, in Big Yellow Taxi.And it seems that so many are not familiar with Whitewebbs Park, so if you are in[…]
Read more...1. I don't think I've really disagreed with anything other than the proximity argument which still doesn't stack up as it would make the entire transaction pointless. Your argument also relies on a totally subjective assessment of "best". 2. Again,[…]
Read more...Answering - Quad are the (Spurs) “acting consultants” who managed and attended the public events – see the footer to the consultation boards in my earlier link. Best you take up several of the matters where you disagree with their[…]
Read more...From memory it was TfL that insisted on no ped phasing at that Hedge Lane junction when it was being redrawn for the cycle lanes (having had no phasing previously either). Only thing I would say is there are safe[…]
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