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  • Train operator launches poetry competition to get kids' imaginations back on track

    Train operator launches poetry competition to get kids' imaginations back on track

    27 Mar 2024 The railway company whose trains serve Palmers Green has launched a poetry competition in partnership with Children's Laureate, Joseph Coelho.

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  • Safer roads campaigners ask: Where's the Plan for Pedestrians?

    Safer roads campaigners ask: Where's the Plan for Pedestrians?

    23 Mar 2024 The 20's Plenty for Us campaign has published its response to recently issued government guidance on setting local speed limits, accusing the Department for Transport of misrepresenting data on pedestrian fatalities when hit by a vehicle travelling at speeds between 20 and 30mph. The 'Plan for Drivers', it says, will discriminate against pedestrians, cyclists, children, the elderly and the disabled.

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  • The Local Plan Debate Of Missed Opportunities. - posted by Darren Edgar

    21 Mar 2024 Labour being Labour. Tories being Tories. All wrapped around the perma-objection NIMBYism or more accurately BANANA - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything. Wish the nonsense around Sainsbury's getting developed would die a death. Local Tories and Lib Dems lying enough for people to have fully bought into the idea now. And as for the alternate plans, the first hypocrisy[…]

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  • The Local Plan Debate Of Missed Opportunities. - posted by Karl Brown

    21 Mar 2024 Like Francis I watched for a period and felt disappointed that after 6 years work and countless text there was still a huge void in the political grey. The plan covers much which will impact but the headline is undoubtedly housing / green belt.  My thinking has long gone like this: here’s a new housing target (34000 in this case,[…]

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  • The Local Plan Debate Of Missed Opportunities.

    The Local Plan Debate Of Missed Opportunities.

    20 Mar 2024 Enfield Dispatch editor James Cracknell was also watching the debate and has written it up in a report that opens with the words "Tensions were high during a three-hour debate at Enfield Civic Centre as Conservatives slammed plans to build thousands of homes on the Green Belt while Labour councillors blamed government for the housing crisis."

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  • The Local Plan Debate Of Missed Opportunities. - posted by Francis Sealey

    20 Mar 2024 I was unable to attend the Local Plan Debate on March 19th but did watch some of it online and had a snapshot of what took place. Sadly it seemed a mixture of deflection and delusion with a touch of the theatre of the absurd. There were moments of humour when one Councillor got up and addressed “this House” rather[…]

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  • Southgate urban realm enhancement discussions at the Southgate Club

    Southgate urban realm enhancement discussions at the Southgate Club

    19 Mar 2024 The final stop on the Southgate Launches itinerary on Saturday 9th March, after admiring Dan Maier's window art at the library and the two new parklets on Ashfield Parade, was the Southgate Club on Chase Side, where visitors were able to meet the designers who will be creating the Portrait of Southgate mosaics, as well as finding out about plans[…]

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  • Show some love for the Wolves Lane Centre

    Show some love for the Wolves Lane Centre

    19 Mar 2024 Wolves Lane Centre isn't in Palmers Green, but it's not far away. This remarkable community and environmental project is raising money for improvements and expansion of its food growing and educational capacity - and you can have your donation doubled.

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  • Volunteers - Introducing children to local wildlife and nature - posted by Richard McKeever

    Volunteers - Introducing children to local wildlife and nature - posted by Richard McKeever

    19 Mar 2024 It's vital for children to explore and understand the natural world and experience their local environment and wildlife , so the  Friends of Broomfield Park  welcomes local schools to the park with activities aimed at Year 1-2 children (five and six year olds). The school visits project is  detailed on the FoBP website  We have a small team of  volunteers[…]

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  • Safer Neighbourhood Board (SNB) - posted by Karl Brown

    15 Mar 2024 This “borough level CAPE” met on the 13th March. Members are made up of the borough’s CAPE chairs and groups such as racial equality and disabled plus (non-voting) interested party attendees from the police, councillors, council officers and several other areas. It seems to have run for at least a decade but unknown to me until my requested first attendance[…]

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  • Inauguration of new Southgate parklets incorporating design ideas from young people - posted by Darren Edgar

    14 Mar 2024 Is this all voluntary? If not I wonder if anyone has FOI'd how much she is getting paid to be artist in residence for Enfield?

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  • Inauguration of new Southgate parklets incorporating design ideas from young people

    Inauguration of new Southgate parklets incorporating design ideas from young people

    13 Mar 2024 Following the inauguration of the window art at Southgate Library, the second location on last Saturday's Launch Southgate itinerary was Ashfield Parade, where two new parklets were installed last month.

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  • Full council debates Enfield Local Plan next Tuesday

    13 Mar 2024 Full council will debate the Enfield Local Plan on Tuesday 19th March at 7pm. There will be overspill accommodation at the Civic Centre to watch the debate, which will also be accessible online.

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  • Southgate Library blooms with new window art

    Southgate Library blooms with new window art

    12 Mar 2024 First stop on last Saturday's Southgate Launches event was the library, where artist Dan Maier recently completed her third building transformation in the town centre, adorning the windows with a vibrant artwork showcasing Southgate's rich horticultural heritage.

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  • Interested in environmentally sustainable fashion?

    Interested in environmentally sustainable fashion?

    12 Mar 2024 Enfield Climate Action Forum members are looking to set up an 'Eco Fashion' working group to research ways of reducing the impact of the clothes we buy on climate change and other environmental issues. To find out more you can join a webinar (online meeting) at 7pm on Wednesday 20th March.

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  • Designing Devonshire Square

    Designing Devonshire Square

    12 Mar 2024 At the Palmers Green Spring Fair in Devonshire Square four ideas for redesigning the square, now that it is to be made permanent, were displayed by the design firm Hayatsu. Visitors were able to discuss the ideas with the designers and write comments on postit labels stuck to the displays. Summing up the feedback they received from visitors, the council's[…]

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  • LTN’s – Love them or hate them, or let your newspaper decide - posted by Karl Brown

    10 Mar 2024 Late summer / early Autumn last year and PM Sunak commissioned a study into LTN’s. Along with 20mph limits, bus lanes and “overzealous” parking enforcement this was highlighted as the beginning of the end of the war on the motorist. Expected in January, nothing was heard.  Last week the study was leaked to the Guardian which said that the report[…]

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  • NHS in North Central London recruiting volunteers to help oversee the 'joining up' of patient data

    NHS in North Central London recruiting volunteers to help oversee the 'joining up' of patient data

    7 Mar 2024 The NHS in north London is preparing to begin combining patient data with the aim of improving services. An opt out is available and volunteers are being recruited to the committee which will oversee use of the data.

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  • Fox to reopen this week - posted by Simon Broughton

    7 Mar 2024 I was disappointed with Whelans. The beer was poor and the food not great either but it looks as though the new lessees are exactly what's required. If they have the approval of CAMRA members then that sounds great!

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  • Fox to reopen this week - posted by Darren Edgar

    7 Mar 2024 Stakes is a great pub. Used to do really good comedy nights too.

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  • Council leader postpones debate on Enfield Local Plan

    Council leader postpones debate on Enfield Local Plan

    7 Mar 2024 Discussion by Full Council of the Enfield Local Plan has been postponed until 19th March so that data supporting the plan can be read by councillors.

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  • Fox to reopen this week

    Fox to reopen this week

    6 Mar 2024 The Fox is due to re-open on Friday 8th March after a closure lasting exactly one week. The new operators run two north London pubs, the Victoria Stakes in Hornsey and the Gipsy Queen in Kentish Town.

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  • Southgate launches on Saturday!

    Southgate launches on Saturday!

    6 Mar 2024 On Saturday 9th March, between 10am and 3pm, Enfield Council's Journeys & Places team launch recent urban realm projects in Southgate town centre and talk about future plans.

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  • Bounds Green Window Show

    Bounds Green Window Show

    6 Mar 2024 Three of the houses that took part in this year's Bounds Green Window Show. Not sure why it's the Bounds Green Window Show as it's mostly in Bowes Park - for historical reasons perhaps? www.bowespark.org.uk/window-show

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  • Women cyclists call for freedom to ride without fear of injury or abuse

    Women cyclists call for freedom to ride without fear of injury or abuse

    5 Mar 2024 Women from Palmers Green were among more than a thousand participants in last Sunday's Women's Freedom Ride, organised by the London Cycling Campaign as part of a campaign calling on the Mayor of London, Metropolitan Police and London boroughs to take stronger measures so that women can cycle on London's road without facing the levels of danger and abuse that[…]

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  • Young people's mental health: Chickenshed say 'we hear you'

    Young people's mental health: Chickenshed say 'we hear you'

    5 Mar 2024 Chickenshed's March fundraising campaign, 'we hear you', is in support of their mentoring and counselling service for young people, which helps tackle the mental health problems that are today one of the biggest challenges facing them.

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