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  Category: Arts, Crafts, Music and Culture

Enfield Poets have announced their 2023 Poetry Competition, with a first prize of £500. It will be judged by David Constantine, a winner of the Queen's Medal for Poetry.

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  Category: Arts, Crafts, Music and Culture

WEA Enfield & Southgate courses resume towards the end of September, either online or at Enfield Baptist Church.

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  Category: Community Groups and Events

Ruth Winston Community Centre is looking for a front office manager.

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  Category: Community Groups and Events

Today, between 10am and 8pm, there will be fun for the whole family in the borough's 'hinterlands' - along the Lea Navigation towpath. Explore an area that was once an important part of London's industry and a transport artery. It's still both of these to an extent, but it's also taken on a vital role in providing a cooling and calming strip bisecting the capital's ever hotter 'heat island'. All free, courtesy of the Canal and Rivers Trust and Enfield Climate Action Forum.

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  Category: Environment & Sustainability

Environmental campaigners say that a survey of north London residents, designed to find out their views about managing waste in seven boroughs, is a 'box-ticking exercise' that fails to mention and ignores the negative economic and environmental consequences of building a large new incinerator in Edmonton. They accuse the waste authority of using flawed data to justify the project and instead call for advanced pre-sorting of waste to greatly reduce the need for incineration.

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  Category: Arts, Crafts, Music and Culture

Enfield in Song are looking for new members. This friendly choir sings show tunes and popular melodies, and puts on concerts locally.

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  Category: Community Groups and Events

The already hugely impressive Friends of Broomfield Park have ambitions to 'move up to the next level'. They're looking for new people to help them do so. Might you, or anyone you know, help shape the Friends' future?

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  Category: Palmers Green Town Centre

Following the issuing of a licence allowing use of a former bank building in the centre of Palmers Green as an adult gaming centre, Bambos Charalambous MP has written to the culture secretary urging her to speed up legislation to help reduce the proliferation of gambling premises on the country's high streets.

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  Category: News

Ruth Winston Community Centre is looking for French and Italian language teachers to run weekly beginners' courses for its members.

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  Category: Local History

Ahead of the opening of a museum in part of the historic mansion at its heart, projects to carry out further in-depth research into Trent Park's vital World War 2 intelligence-gathering role are already yielding results. In parallel, an interactive project to teach local children about the activities of the 'secret listeners' is being readied for roll-out across Enfield schools.

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Written by Basil Clarke    Category: Planning & Development

Analysis of recently published inputs to the 2021 public consultation on the next Enfield Local Plan has revealed the scale of the ambitions of housing developers to build on extensive areas of land in the borough currently classified as Metropolitan Green Belt - but also among the submissions from developers there were some calling on the council to give preference to building on 'brownfield land', including sites in Palmers Green.

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  Category: Traffic, Roads & Parking

Enfield Council is inviting people to apply to be members of a group being set up to ensure that the views of deaf and disabled people are heard throughout the design phases of projects designed to enable and encourage people to use environmentally sustainable means to make daily journeys, such as school streets, quieter neighbourhoods and walking and cycling routes.

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