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News, comment and features
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It looks pretty certain that the Co-op will be moving into the Palmers Green shop that was vacated by Waitrose last month.
The eagle-eyed Donald Smith has discovered a notice in the Enfield Independent - an application by Co-operative Food Limited for a new Premises Licence for the sale of alcohol for consumption off the premises between Monday-Sunday 07:00-23:00. "Address of Premises: Co-op 284 Green Lanes London N13 5TU".
So we will end up with two Co-op shops more or less.......
Star Pubs and Bars and the Lateral Property Group have now submitted a planning application for redevelopment of the Fox pub and car park. There appear to be only small changes to the plans that were on show at the public exhibition held this July.
The planning application
17/03634/FUL | Redevelopment of site involving partial demolition of existing buildings to provide refurbished public house (A4) and commercial unit (A1-A5, D2) on the ground floor together with erection of 44.......
Enfield Council is conducting two surveys on food poverty in Enfield - one for local residents and one for community groups.What is food poverty?“Food Poverty” is a contested term but the Department of Health state that it can be defined as the inability to afford or have access to the food needed for a healthy diet.Who does food poverty affect?Many factors determine what does or does not end up on our plate. Households with lower incomes, lower than average educational outcomes and in low.......
A meeting on 20th September will discuss the Mayor of London's consultation on changes to the way that the public can access and engage with the police.
As a result of Government funding cuts, since 2010, the Met Police have had to find £600m of savings and must save a further £400m by 2020.
Mayor Sadiq Khan is determined to protect the front line from cuts, and he has published draft plans to: close costly and underused police front.......
Enfield Youth Offending Unit (YOU)
YOU needs volunteers who:
are concerned about youth crime
are able to engage with young people
would like to be part of the restorative justice process
can work with young offenders to help challenge and change their behaviour
can help us to help them and make Enfield a better place to live and work
believe that young people should have to make reparation (community work to repair the harm caused by their crime) to society for the harm caused by.......
A nine-hour feast of poetry In Enfield aims to rescue a family from a Syrian refugee camp. The Enfield Poem-a-thon will raise money for Enfield Refugee Welcome, the first Community Sponsorship Group in the UK to have resettled a refugee family under the government's Vulnerable Children's Resettlement Scheme.
Enfield Poem-a-thon organizer Maggie Butt, herself one of the poets who will be taking part, explains: "I am so proud that Enfield has the first community sponsorship group in the country.......
The charity Thames 21 is recruiting volunteers to work in small teams to use computer modelling to help clean up three tributaries of the River Lea - the Pymmes Brook and Salmons Brook on our side of the Lea and the Ching Brook on the east side.
Love the Lea – Community Modelling
Communities to shape water quality solutions
Thames21 has begun a new initiative which aims to involve local communities in setting out future plans for their rivers. Using community modelling,.......
In an attempt to reduce certain forms of "anti-social behaviour" Enfield Council is proposing to introduce a borough-wide Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO). The proposed PSPO would prohibit a wide range of activities or behaviour considered to be "unacceptable". A public consultation is under way until 18 September 2017.
The Council is seeking views on reviewing the current street trading policy. Street trading can cover tables and chairs and the display of goods on the pavement. Currently, the policy only permits street trading licences for tables and chairs on the pavement outside restaurants, cafes and pubs in certain designated streets, and the sale of goods from seasonal and farmers markets and the sale of goods from a small number of very longstanding stalls.
In line with his support for Make London a National Park City, the Mayor of London is setting up a Greener City Fund to provide money for local groups to plant trees and improve green spaces. Groups have until 29 September to apply for Tree Planting Grants and until 20 October to apply for Community Green Spaces Grants.
Greener City Fund
Mayor Sadiq Khan’s new £9 million fund to create and improve green spaces and encourage more tree planting in London.
The Mayor wants.......
Talkies Community Cinema is partnering with Short Sighted Cinema once more to commission four filmmakers to produce a short film located in Palmers Green. Each maker will be will be awarded £500 towards the cost of their film. The winning films will be shown as part of the 2018 Here Suburban Film Festival.HERE Suburban Film FestivalEach year, Talkies Community Cinema partners with Short Sighted Cinema to commission four new short films as part of the HERE Film Festival.The festival.......
Less than five months after opening its own Tap Room in Myddleton Road, Bowes Park's Bohem Brewery has had to install new brewing equipment to cope with demand for its authentic Czech lagers.
The brewery is located in a former shop in Whittington Road. The opening of the Tap Room in April and the resultant increase in sales meant that brewer Petr Skoček was able to give up his other job as a dustcart driver to concentrate on his real vocation.
Bohem beers are available not.......