Fears that Palmers Green was losing another of its small number of pubs were dispelled this week when an upmarket chain that now owns the Woodman announced that it is to be extensively refurbished and will reopen next year.
In 2021 a campaign to prevent a 24-hour gambling establishment opening in Palmers Green was unsuccessful. Reports in the Observer newspaper uncover the severe social and personal problems that can be caused by seemingly harmless slot machines hidden behind the opaque windows of branches of Merkur Slots and other arcade operators. They also reveal that the previous government was preparing to ease already lax restrictions on such establishments. Will the new government take a different approach?
Five gorgeous models, all from the local community, strutted their stuff last weekend on a catwalk set up in Palmers Green's new space, Devonshire Square.
Enfield Council is recruiting an officer whose role will be to engage with the public during the development phase of a project to 'memorialise' Broomfield House and 'conserve and enhance' Broomfield Park.
The announcement of two events scheduled for 23rd and 24th July at 101 Myddleton Road signals the reopening of a popular local cafe/bar after it was purchased by the community. The former Step, now rechristened Hillbilly Social at 101, will play host on Tuesday to Bowes Park Folk Club and on Wednesday to Homebrew Poetry.
The organisers of the big annual music event at Forty Hall Farm had to cancel this year or risk its entire future, but instead they're putting on an alternative that is Not the Livestock Festival. It's restricted to 500 attendees and tickets are going fast!
Rabbit Hole, a Pulitzer Prize winning drama by David Lindsay Abaire, charts a couple's bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day. All this week at Incognito Theatre in Friern Barnet.
Local people who identify as disabled are invited to enrol in workshops being held this month at Arbeit Studios ahead of an art exhibition to be held at Arbeit in August.
The latest issue of the guide to volunteering opportunities in the borough and further afield has been published and can be downloaded from the Enfield Voluntary Action (EVA) website.
