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A message from the Friends of the Lakes Estate Conservation Area
The character appraisal for the conservation area was reviewed in 2015Do you live in the Lakes Estate Conservation Area? Are you interested in helping preserve its character?
We are a group of residents who assist Council officers in safeguarding the Estate's unique character as described in the Conservation Area Appraisal.
One of the roles of the group is to comment on planning applications in the area. Another role.......
Park Lodge Medical Centre in Old Park Road is to close and its services will be transferred to the Winchmore Hill Practice (located at 808 Green Lanes and also known as the Green Lanes Surgery). Patients registered at Park Lodge can be seen at Green Lanes or opt to transfer to a different practice.
The closure date is not yet known, but patients (and carers) at both practices are being invited to "stakeholder meetings", to be held at Green Lanes on Thursday 29th June at 7pm and at Park Lodge on.......
No way out. The newly installed gate at Palmers Green station is a serious impediment to anyone with a heavy load or who has difficulty climbing stairs
On the Sunday before last I arrived at Palmers Green station after a couple of weeks away. I had with me a very heavy suitcase, but was easily able to pull it up the three small steps between Platform 2 and the car park and then wheel it home. If I had returned one day later, I would have been in trouble, because the gate to the car.......
The Friends of Firs Farm are using the crowdfunding website Spacehive to raise money to set up a Community Hub and Dementia Cafe. The cafe would act as a space where the community, including people with dementia or autism, could come together in an inviting and welcoming environment - a welcome safe space, with memory stimulation, and somewhere to, in the words of Alzheimer's Café founder, Dr. Bere Miesen, "just be".
The project would cost £66.232. Some council funding.......
This year the Palmers Green Festival organisers are planning to use the former bowling green in Broomfield Park to stage "Classics on the Green" - an afternoon of local musicians playing classical music.
This innovation will depend on finding a local volunteer who would put together a line-up of locally based musicians. They would be supported by the Festival Team, but would be responsible for administering and stage managing on the day.
If you are local, have a few hours a month and are.......
With the new Chase Farm Hospital on the horizon, children’s services on the site will be changing following a consultation and evaluation about how and when they are used. This work has been led by Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and will see changes to the way paediatric urgent care is delivered to best meet the needs of local children.
A document leaked to the Guardian newspaper has revealed the "devastating" scale of cuts that are being proposed for NHS services in the five North Central London boroughs - Enfield, Barnet, Haringey, Camden and Islington.
The Festival is Coming !
We just wanted to let you know a little about what you can look forward to at the
N21 Festival Fancy FairWinchmore Hill GreenSaturday 8th July10:00am to 7:00pm
We have spent a year - a year ? How can it take that long ?! Planning this day .
We are nearly ready to put on the best, most varied and exciting event in Winchmore Hill history !
Live music all day on The Tessa Stevens Stage
Dance Stage
60 eclectic Stalls
Over 40 Artists, crafters and designers
The.......
The three companies involved with planned redevelopment of the Fox have begun posting invitations to an exhibition and ocnsultation event through letterboxes.
The exhibition will be held in the function room at the back of the Fox from 2pm to 8pm on Tuesday 4th July.
If you have not received a card, it is available online at thefoxconsultation.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/0517_The-Fox-invite.pdf.
The text below is taken from the consultation website at thefoxconsultation.co.uk........
A group set up last year to defend NHS services in Enfield is calling on members of the public to sign a petition demanding that health secretary Jeremy Hunt reveals the plans that are being drawn up to slash expenditure on the NHS in Enfield and throughout north London.
Defend Enfield NHS (DENHS) point out that "North Central London" is among the areas selected to be first to implement a "capped expenditure process". At present clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in this area,.......
The latest Palmers Green Tales video looks at the activities of volunteers in Broomfield Conservatory - how they tend to the collection of subtropical plants, open it up to the public twice a week and run special events such as plant sales and activities for children.
On 4th July from 2pm to 8pm the developers HardHat will be holding an event in the function room at the rear of the Fox to inform and consult local residents about their proposals for redeveloping the site of the Fox pub.
The proposal is to restore the exterior of the existing building, improve the interior of the pub while reducing its size and using some of the current pub as retail space. The plans include converting upper storeys into flats and building new flats above the car park........