News, comment and features

A coroner has concluded that a driver turning into Compton Road from Green Lanes could not have avoided hitting a boy who ran into the road. The boy died from a brain injury. But was it the size of the vehicle - a Land Rover - that made a low-speed collision fatal?

British Red Cross are recruiting a manager for their bookshop in Palmers Green.

Colin Younger, chair of of the Broomfield House Trust, explains the background to the recent decision to close the Trust and urges readers to take the opportunity on 25th October to comment on the draft concept for memorialising the House.

Phase 2 of the planned public realm improvements to Enfield Town has been broken up into subphases. Funding has been found for the first of them and work to implement the changes, benefiting primarily pedestrians, is due to start on 20th October and last around three months.

Following the preliminary engagement earlier this year regarding the introduction of more 20mph streets in the borough, Enfield Council has now launched a statutory consultation about its plans for three town centres: Palmers Green, Southgate and Edmonton.

Is the proposal for a 'new town' in the north of Enfield borough 'a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us to change lives and help families grow and thrive', as council leader Ergin Erbil describes it, or 'a cause for great alarm', the view taken by the Enfield Society?

Local teens are the stars of a new video filmed in Broomfield Park with the aim of raising funds for the campaign to Make Space for Girls. All donations made between 8th and 15th October will be doubled by sponsors.

At 2pm on Friday 17th October a ceremony in Broomfield Park will mark United Nations Day.

This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Palmers Green ward is now available.

Friends of Oakwood Park are asking visitors to the park what they would like the disused pond turned into.

'Lazy', 'entitled', 'unreliable', 'snowflakes' - just some of the unflattering terms frequently used to describe 'Gen Z'. But are these descriptions fair and accurate, or completely wide of the mark? In a newly published book, Palmers Green-based educationalist Alex Atherton draws on his career-long experience to reassess this much maligned generation and to suggest that if older generations want to draw on Gen Z's strengths, they need to change their approach.

The wonderful work done by our local children's hospice is highlighted by a new film made in support of its annual fundraising campaign. Donate to the hospice before 12th October and your donation will be doubled!