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One of many projects run by the Friends of Broomfield Park is beekeeping. The hives are tucked away in a corner of Broomfield Community Orchard. Jenny Bourke and Susan Mehmet of Palmers Green Tales recently visited the Broomfield hives and shot a short film about what beekeeping involves.
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Following three public consultations and discussions with Enfield planning officers, the planning application for the redevelopment of the former Middlesex University campus in Trent Park will go before the Planning Committee on Tuesday 18th July.
Berkeley Homes are applying to refurbish the mansion and some other historic buildings, demolish most of the more recent former university buildings and create a total of 262 residential units.
A notable inclusion in the plans is the reservation of.......
Hi - I am Surayya , one of Talkies' volunteers. I will be bringing you a short film on this website each month. Please let us know what you think of this month's film, and watch this space to see what we will bring you in the coming months!
Healthwatch Enfield has written to Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) recommending that the CCG suspend any decision making regarding increasing thresholds for access to certain medical procedures.
The letter, sent last week and published on the Healthwatch Enfield website, summarises the feedback gathered at the various consultation meetings that it organised to discuss the CCG's proposals concerning "Application of Evidence Based Medicine" (see earlier reporting on Palmers Green.......
Passengers using Great Northern and other rail services operated by Govia Thameslink Railway are being consulted about draft timetables due to come into effect from May 2018. The deadline for response is 27 July.
Artist's impression of Palmers Green Triangle after completion of Cycle Enfield works
Work to reconfigure the Palmers Green Triangle area in line with the Cycle Enfield project is due to start in five days time, when the clock will be removed and placed in storage. The actual roadworks will commence a week later, on 17th July. The bottom part of Aldermans Hill (between Devonshire Road and Green Lanes) will be closed to vehicles approximately three months.
Notice of the closure is.......
The Fox consultation has now started. The exhibition in the function room at the back of the Fox is on until 8pm today (Tuesday). There is now more information on the consultations website
Enfield Council is consulting residents about its proposals to reduce the number of children's centres. Like other council services, spending reductions are required because of severe reductions in central government funding. The council's budget for children's centres is reducing from £1.6m to £1.03m per year.
The proposal is to reduce the number of children's centres hubs from four to one. The single hub would have "satellites" at schools throughout the borough.
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The chairs of four out of five Healthwatch bodies in North Central London, including the chair of Healthwatch Enfield, have written a strongly worded letter to the Secretary of State for Health complaining about the scale of cuts to local NHS services being planned and the secrecy with which the planning work is being carried out. They say that they consider the proposed cuts a "threat to patient safety". In fact, they believe that patient safety in their boroughs is already being.......
Patients attending meetings at Park Lodge Medical Centre in Old Park Road have been briefed about plans to transfer all its services to a surgery in Winchmore Hill, probably in late 2017. The GP partners from Winchmore Hill Practice, who are now also the partners at Park Lodge, have provided PGC with a document giving answers to questions which they have received from patients at meetings (see the box at the end of this article)Winchmore Hill Practice is housed in modern purpose-built premises.......
I hope you will join us on Thursday July 6
Hi, I am Sophie Castell and I am chair of the Enfield Branch of the National Autistic Society. We are pleased to partner with Talkies for this special event. I will introduce the evening, highlighting some of the challenges of autism. The film shows one amazing young man's experience of autism.
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A heartwarming real life story about Owen Suskind, an autistic boy whose life was transformed through.......