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Written by Basil Clarke    Category: Council Services

The Palmers Green ward forum on 22nd May discussed many issues raised by residents. The Safer Neighbourhoods Team answered questions and there were briefings by the Young Mayors and the chair of the Ward Panel.

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Monday 19th September will be a bank holiday to mark the Queen's state funeral. Waste collections during the week will be put back by one day.

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A three-month open-air exhibition at town centre locations around the borough will reveal how the Dugdale Centre will look when it reopens in the winter.

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Written by Basil Clarke    Category: Council Services

Enfield Council has revealed that the future location of its well respected archives and local studies centre will be the ground floor of the Civic Centre, where there will also be exhibition spaces for art and archive artifacts. The news was revealed at a cabinet meeting last week which reviewed the council's ongoing programme to streamline and improve services. The move of these and other services out of Thomas Hardy House (better known as the Dugdale Centre) has provoked controversy.

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The borough's four hub libraries, including Palmers Green, have reopened but are offering restricted services. Shelf browsing is now available, subject to pre-booking up to two days in advance.

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Written by Basil Clarke    Category: Council Services

A petition calling on Enfield Council to 'save Paul Everitt and the Enfield cultural team from redundancy' has so far gathered around 800 signatures. Launched by Love Your Doorstep founder Emma Rigby, it alleges that the head of the council's culture team is being 'pushed out' because he is too outspoken. What are the facts behind the petition?

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Details of revised collection dates for rubbish and recycling are available on the council website. There are several ways you can dispose of real Christmas trees - you can put them in your green garden waste bin, take them to a park, book an appointment at Barrowell Green or book a kerbside collection in advance - booking is already open.

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Enfield Council are consulting on 'Fairer Enfield', their proposed equality, diversity and inclusion policy. The draft policy sets out the council's duty to comply with relevant legislation and statutory requirements and confirms its commitment to tackle inequality and improve equality, diversity and inclusion in Enfield. Furthermore, it outlines the behaviours and values that everyone working for the council must demonstrate and the actions they must take in order to make this a reality.

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Enfield Council has rejected the Enfield Society's alternative proposals for the future of the Dugdale Centre, claiming that the £20,000 that the Society was offering to donate will not offset the hundreds of thousands of pounds a year savings that the council's plans will provide.

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Written by Basil Clarke    Category: Council Services

In March, despite protests, Enfield's cabinet agreed to go ahead with a plan to set up a centralised children and families hub on the first and second floors, despite, it seems, not having identified a suitable new home for the borough's well regarded archives and local history library. Ever since local the Enfield Society and other civic sector organisations have been seeking in vain to enter into satisfactory dialogue with the council about this. They have now published an alternative plan which, they say, would not only allow the museum and archives to remain at the Dugdale, along with conference facilities and rooms for hire by community organisations, but would actually save more money than the council's proposal.

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Palmers Green Library is now open from 9am to 5pm on Monday to Friday. Special arrangements apply.

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Enfield Council is making changes to arrangements for collection of waste and recyclables. Aluminium foil and carrier bags can now be recycled, but from 5th October households will no longer be able to put out extra bags of general waste.