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News, comment and features
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A conservation group has expressed concern about Network Rail's planned tree removals alongside the railway in Palmers Green, which is due to begin on Monday 30th September (this this earlier report).
Colin Younger, Chair of the Lakes Estate Conservation Area Study Group, has written to Network Rail to express the Group's worries that the "attention" to "more sycamore trees" which the rail company say is needed might lead to wholesale removal of tree cover, as has happened along other sections.......
Network Rail are to carry out work on trees on railway land in Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill. The work, to be carried out between 30th September and 11th October, will affect "approximately 10-12 trees" which have been identified by an arboricultural survey as dead, diseased or dying.
The approximate locations of the trees affected are shown on the maps.
Network Rail have stated that the work is necessary to maintain a reliable and safe railway and have pointed out that last year a.......
Enfield Council will be holding a consultation meeting about its proposals to build a new primary school on land adjacent to Grovelands Park. The meeting will be at Southgate (The Bourne) Methodist Church at 7pm on Wednesday 25th September.
Reactions to the proposals, which came to light five months ago, have been mixed. The We Want Local Schools campaign welcomes the potential increase in primary school places within the area on which it is primarily focussed. In.......
Southgate-based Chickenshed Theatre is running a series of Adult Theatre Workshops which will be exclusively available to people aged 60 and above. As well as working with Chickenshed's highly experienced practitioners, participants will have an opportunity to meet other people who share their passion for the performing arts and theatre.
Participants must enroll for the entire six-session series, which starts this coming Monday, 9th September. More details are available on the Chickenshed.......
The second Palmers Green Community Festival, to be held in Broomfield Park this coming Sunday (1st September), will be even more ambitious than last year's resounding success, but entry will again be completely free........
When you visit the Palmers Green Community Festival on Sunday 1st September, be sure to visit the stand run by Noah's Ark Children's Hospice. This is a locally based charity with a difference: a hospice without its own building. Instead of patients coming to them, they come to the patients and care for them - and the other members of their families - in famliar home surroundings.
Noah's Ark estimate that there are 900 children in the boroughs they serve - Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and.......
Enfield Council is currently inviting comments from the public on a document that will play an important role in future decisions on planning applications. The "Proposed Submission" version of the Development Management Document is due to be submitted to a government-appointed Planning Inspector later in the year, and residents have until 27 September to send in their comments.
The document, which can be downloaded from this page lays down policy for the following areas:
Housing (including.......
At recent Area Forums members of the public have not received clear answers from Enfield Council representatives to questions about the future of the Palmers Green Triangle and possible environmental improvements in the surrounding streets. In an attempt to clarify the situation, the chairs of two local residents’ groups recently asked for a meeting with Council officers to find out what was happening and to ask about future consultation. A record of the meeting is now.......
In the face of a determined campaign led by the Pinkham Way Alliance, the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) remains set on building a large new waste processing facility at Pinkham Wood (between Friern Barnet and Bounds Green).
In late July the Haringey Independent reported that the NLWA Chairman had rebuked Hornsey and Wood Green MP Lynne Featherstone for signing a petition organised by the Pinkham Way Alliance and stated that "the Pinkham Way site remains central to NLWA’s future.......
Fox Lane and District Residents' Association have published a document provided by Enfield Council showng some of the initial concepts for a possible new primary school to be built in Grovelands Park (see this earlier report)........
Three locally based organisations are cooperating on an aural history project designed to discover how the arrival of rock'n'roll in the UK sixty years ago affected life in Palmers Green, Winchmore Hill, Southgate and Enfield. The question being posed by Joe Studman of Jaywalks, Sue Beard of Palmers Green Jewel in the North and Southgate District Civic Trust is:
Do you remember the first days of rock and roll? How did it impact on you and your family? What did you wear and where did.......
A new short film created by director Christine Lalla celebrates the history of Broomfield Park and its once magnificent centrepiece, Broomfield House. Christine has superimposed film footage from sixty years ago and from earlier this year, plus still photography from as far back as the 1880s, over a soundtrack of local residents speaking about their memories of the Park and of the House in its heyday - of times when Olympic sprinters would train on the running track, when crowds of.......