Bowes Meadow, showing the play space
Palmers Green has a new park! Not large, but very welcome nonetheless, and fitted out with a modern multi-use games area and play space, paid for by Fairview Homes at a cost of £140,000.
Bowes Meadow is just south of the North Circular, at the end of Cherry Blossom Close and Millicent Grove and occupies the field that you walk past before crossing the Pymmes Brook if you use the footpath that runs parallel with Melville Gardens between the North Circular and Tottenhall Road.
A couple of years ago it looked as if preparations were underway to build houses on the field, but then it was just left undeveloped. So it could be that the Council had to persuade the developers to provide a park on what was until now private land. According to a tweet by Councillor Alan Sitkin, the credit should go to Cllr Achilleas Georgiou, his fellow Bowes councillor and deputy leader of Enfield Council, who "fought for this for years".
Site of Bowes Meadow (imagery and map data (c) Google 2016)
