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Following lobbying by friends of parks groups and submission of public petitions, Enfield Council has modified the decision it took in 2014 to cease locking all parks overnight. The new policy is to completely cease locking those parks where only some entrances have been locked, but to continue to completely lock parks where the practice has been to lock all entrances overnight.
Broomfield Park will be locked overnight (photo by Belinda Robinson from the FoBP Facebook page)Now that there.......
The Enfield Society and Enfield Council are planning a project to review Enfield’s local heritage list and are looking for volunteers to help. The local listing replaced the old Grade III listing which ceased to be continued in 1974.
Enfield has a list of buildings and features of special architectural or historic interest on its website. However, this is out of date and needs complete revision. The Enfield Society is working with Enfield Council to help to do this. Consultants are.......
The Healthy Enfield Young People Active programme aims to get more young people aged 13-24 to take part in active activities, as part of a group and of their own accord. The aim is to enhance and connect young people to activity opportunities in their local area, help them make use of local facilities and prepare them to be active independently - contributing to creating a sporting habit for life.
Please note that all participants will be required to have Height, Weight and BMI measured
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Among the events being organised by Enfield Council to mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of the present-day London boroughs is a series of free local history walks led by Joe Studman. They start on 16th June and run through to March 2016, criss-crossing the borough and taking in every part of Enfield, examining its rich, varied and fascinating history and characters..
For more information about the walks email .
Joe Studman is a born and bred Londoner. Born.......
The public have until 30th June to comment on proposals to build a new waste incinerator in Edmonton, considerably larger than the current incinerator, which it would replace. The new buildings would be on the northern side of the North Circular, to the north and south of the present plant, which would then be demolished, leaving a space in between. Public exhibitions will be held in Enfield, Edmonton, Northumberland Park and Chingford.
The scheme, which would cost £500 million.......
The mysterious "Palmers Scream" scroll, discovered in Southgate Town Hall, says that "Broomfield should be a happy place. All effort should be taken to bring joy and merriment to its grasses throughout the year, for each smile reduces the power of the witches as they sleep." One group of people who are rising to the challenge of "bringing joy and merriment to its grasses" are the Friends of Broomfield Park, who this year are extending the season of summer free musical events to take in.......
Southgate District Civic Trust's application to register the Fox pub as an Asset of Community Value has been successful. Enfield Council notified the Trust last week that the application had satisfied the rigorous requirements set down in the legislation - the first ACV application to do so anywhere in the borough.
An important factor was undoubtedly the fact that important community events are held in the large function room at the rear of the Fox. Recently the room has been used.......
A dozen dedicated volunteers braved the elements on Sunday morning to take part in the annual Ruth Winston sponsored walk. Here you can see them all spruce before starting and somewhat bedraggled afterwards.
And you won't see such an impressive daffodil even in Trent Park!.......
Yet more worrying data about the seriousness of the air pollution problem in London has recently been published, revealing the level of premature deaths that it leads to. The signs of catastrophic climate change are increasingly evident - polar ice caps melting, ice shelfs collapsing, heatwaves in India, drought in Australia and California, flooding... So the ideal time to relax regulations designed to discourage car use in London?
Absolutely not. But a proposal being.......
The Palmers Scream website has had a facelift and some interesting new material has appeared there, including a video of an interview with Palmers Green resident extraordinaire Ralph Hutchings. The story he tells is one he's kept under wraps for thirty years.
Ralph was one of the volunteers working with conservators after the first Broomfield House fire. He and others removed the famous Lanscroon Murals for preservation. Behind the murals, buried in the bricks of the wall, they.......
Transport for London are proposing to introduce additional night bus services from September, including some which would provide new east-west connectivity between locations in north London. The changes are planned so that travellers on Night Tube services will be able to travel on from tube stations to other destinations.
Routes 34 (Walthamstow-Edmonton-Palmers Green-Whetstone-Barnet) and 123 (Ilford-Walthamstow-Tottenham-Wood Green) would both run at half-hourly intervals throughout.......
The completion of work to restore and refurbish the Minchenden Oak Garden was celebrated on Sunday when the Bishop of London presided at a Redication Ceremony.
The Bishop of London and Rev. Hazel Miall listen to the Children's Voices of Enfield under the boughs of the Minchenden OakOver a hundred people attended the ceremony, at which the Rt Revd & Rt Hon.Richard Chartres KCVO DD FSA rededicated and blessed the garden. An oak sapling grown from a Minchenden acorn was planted by the.......