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    • Bowes Park community plea to save pub from develop...
    • "A campaign to rescue a Bowes Park cafe, bar and community space has raised more than £150,000 of investment from the local community in just three weeks. "The Save the Step campaign aims to prevent developers from repurposing The Step on Myddleton Road, close to Wood Green and Palmers Green, instead buying and reopening it as a community pub. If the campaign raises £250,000 of investment by Sunday, 19th March, the current owner is willing to sell the N22 venue back to the community."
    • In Other Subjects / Community Groups and Community Events
    • Author PGC Webmaster
    • 15 Mar 2023 17:17
    • Ward Panel, its not the Ward Forum, or the CAPE.
    • “We will have the strongest ever neighbourhood policing…. Community policing is the Met’s foundation and needs to be strengthened. This requires the involvement of London’s communities and our partners in decisions about how we keep London safe…. We will overhaul the current neighbourhood policing model. We will give London the strongest neighbourhood policing ever by investing in more local officers and additional PCSOs to create stronger, more capable teams. These teams really know what matters to their own communities; and, can reduce local crime, and build strong and trusted partnerships to fix local problems.” Which sounds splendid and is lifted from the Mets draft turnaround plan. The full draft version is attached while the link will take you to a brief consultation survey (which closes 17th March, so be quick). The final plan will be published next month. www.met.police.uk/notices/met/the-turnaround-plan-more-trust-less-crime-and-high-standards/ The PG Ward Panel meets next week to assess and set local priorities for our own local team. I’ll post how that decides and looking further ahead, how this whole adventure unfolds for PG.
    • In Other Subjects / Community Groups and Community Events
    • Author Karl Brown
    • 13 Mar 2023 09:38
    • Picking up in PG on the way to the Women's Freedom...
    • There’ll be no surprise to me if something along the lines of a “Lineker Window” emerges in the very near term (albeit informally) framing what is and is not seen as acceptable use in public discussion in a new-world which has evolved at breakneck speed. High profile politicians feeding bases with terms such as “swarms” and “invasions” will find themselves on the outside looking into this new landscape. I have an inkling that references to sacrificing daughters may go the same way.
    • In Planning and Development / Traffic, Roads and Parking
    • Author Karl Brown
    • 13 Mar 2023 09:36
    • A British Mafia?
    • Not so long since fly-tipping was a borough political hot potato – Tories vs Labour - the latter apparently being to blame, and the implication that this was a near uniquely Enfield problem. Well, with an apparent one million plus UK incidents pa, it is evidently a tad broader. Why? Well, the chief executive of the Environment Agency says the rewards are as high or higher than robbery, drug dealing or contract killing. Dump a mattress of kill a rival? The balancing decisions must be tough in such circles, particularly since the former is low risk. There’s more on our waste problem in a short explanatory article. theconversation.com/dirty-gold-the-fly-tipping-gangs-costing-councils-millions-and-how-you-can-help-198343 What can we do to help? The author suggests: Produce less waste aka buy less stuff and find second generation uses for what you do buy and are finished with; Report fly tipping, or clean it up yourself if practicable. (Person who dumps their vegetable waste on the Fox Lane bridge most weeks, we’re looking at you) Use the council for larger items, not the scrap men who often circulate our estates in vans. I personally take note of this one. More on what we don’t know about our waste at a later date
    • In Planning and Development / North London Waste Plan
    • Author Karl Brown
    • 10 Mar 2023 14:38
    • Simon says: You have a voice!
    • Please note the amendments to the article about Simon Gilbert's classes at Ruth Winston. The statement in the original version that the classes were free was incorrect. There is a charge of £4 per session, to cover the cost of hiring the room. Please note also that since the article was written I've been informed that the days and times of the sessions are likely to change, but that the session at 11.45 on 17th March will go ahead. For more information contact Simon as above.
    • In Other Subjects / Miscellaneous
    • Author PGC Webmaster
    • 08 Mar 2023 23:11
    • Join the Women's Freedom Ride!
    • More than a thousand women joined in this afternoon's Freedom Ride around central London, campaigning for increased measures to reduce road danger for people of any gender riding bikes in the capital. A contingent gathered at Palmers Green Triangle just after 9am and reached Marble Arch safely thanks to marshalling by members of Enfield Cycling Campaign. The lead organiser of the event was PG resident Clare Rogers, seen in the TV news clip above and below at the start of the ride at Marble Arch.
    • In Other Subjects / Community Groups and Community Events
    • Author PGC Webmaster
    • 05 Mar 2023 20:56
    • Putting a plaza in place
    • Any doubts about the transformation powers of a road becoming a plaza will surely be eroded by a visit to the newly pedestrianised Strand outside Somerset House and fronting and surrounding St Mary Le Strand. Not so long ago this was a racetrack, with vehicle streams both sides of the church, proving an awful, noisy, place to cross. Now we have an oasis. Hard landscaping is complete and once the plants grow it will be fantastic. In countless years of passing I had never noticed the magnolias framing the church. Tables, early signs of food and an installation of roughly 50 seats forming the colours and shades of the rainbow to the north side are building interest and life. Fortunately as yet no Yodas nor amplified buskers. Outside of the immediate impact and benefit I would see this as a jigsaw piece helping form a (tourist) route from the South Bank, through Somerset House and ultimately on to Covent Garden. A bit grander than our own Devonshire Square but we do have more cafes, probably more than Covent Garden itself.
    • In Planning and Development / Palmers Green Town Centre
    • Author Karl Brown
    • 01 Mar 2023 17:23
    • The Canonbury Tower
    • The 23 Feb Weekly Newsletter contains a link under “Reported Elsewhere” entitled which comes from the “Ian Visits” series. This is interesting in itself, but, although it’s not made explicit, it describes events from the life of Sir John Spencer, Lord Mayor of London in 1594-95, “the richest man in England” and owner of Broomfield House from 1599 to his death in 1610. Ian visits contains one error, linking Sir John Spencer with another Spencer family. Although Broomfield House went to Sir John’s one-time apprentice Joseph Jackson, his fortune (and the tower) went via his only child, his daughter Elizabeth, to William Compton, 2nd Baron Compton who became the 1st Earl of Northampton in 1618.
    • In Conservation / Broomfield House restoration
    • Author Colin Younger
    • 25 Feb 2023 17:49

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