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News, comment and features
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Ringway Jacobs have sent the following letter to Palmers Green residents and business owners.
Dear Resident / Business Owner,
This letter is to inform you of work in your area as part of the Cycle Enfield project and the associated complimentary measures.Work to increase the number of parking bays within the Lodge Drive car park is due to take place from Monday the 6th of March until the end of April 2017. Work will take place primarily between 7am and 6pm Monday to Friday.Once the work.......
A105 Scheme
Green Dragon Lane to York Road – Most substantive work on this section is complete. A zebra crossing will be commissioned next week. Borden Avenue to Walnut Grove – We have removed and replaced a bus shelter and completed the drainage. Some additional surfacing and lining work will take place during daytime hours.
Work is expected to be complete by the end of March.
Sainsbury’s Junction – We will be working on the traffic signals at the junction.
Work.......
Enfield Council has relaunched its Quieter Neighbourhoods (QNs) project, an important element of its Mini Holland bid which has been on hold since early 2015. Leaflets will soon be posted through doors of people living in the first areas to be surveyed and it is already possible to fill in an online Residents' Perception Survey.
The thinking behind the QNs schemes is summed up on the Cycle Enfield website:
We're working with residents to make their streets quieter and safer. By.......
It may have escaped your attention, but we are already nearly a third of the way through a "public consultation" about rationing NHS knee, hernia and other operations and medical procedures for Enfield residents.
The consultation period - outrageously short for such an important question - began on 1st March at a poorly advertised public meeting and finishes on 31st March. Between now and then there will be only two more public meetings, both during the working day, one on the 22nd and.......
Enfield Council has published the following information about parking along the A105 for disabled people.
Disabled parking on the A105 scheme
We are aware concerns were raised over the cycle lane reducing the availability of parking spaces and preventing people with disabilities transported by private vehicles gaining access in certain areas. We also understand the concerns that the cycle lane could restrict the dial-a-ride from operating at locations such as the Ruth Winston Centre.
We.......
Healthy Streets for London, published last month by Transport for London, is an important document which outlines in broad terms the strategy that will be adopted by the Mayor of London and his Walking and Cycling Commissioner in order to increase "active travel" by people living and working in London.
The health benefits of daily activity are shown in the diagram. Conversely, the disbenefits stemming from current inadequate amounts of activity among the general population are.......
Palmers Green's longest running Play Street was in the news again this week, though for the wrong reason. An ugly incident when a non-resident drove "at some speed" past barriers in Devonshire Road designed to protect children from cars was picked up in this week's Enfield Gazette. The aggressive driver even returned later and the police were called.
However, the organisers of the play street say that this is only the second time that anything similar has happened in the three years.......
Two more "primary care access hubs" are now operating in Enfield, including one on Green Lanes in the Palmers Green/Winchmore Hill borders. Appointments, including at weekends and on public holidays, will be available to all patients registered with a GP in the borough.
The announcement below appeared on the Enfield CCG website.
Evening and weekend GP appointments for Enfield patients
27 February 2017
Enfield CCG is pleased to announce that a further two primary care access hubs.......
Business and energy secretary Greg Clark has given the go-ahead to a new energy-from-waste plant at the Edmonton EcoPark. The plans were approved following an examination by the Planning Inspectorate which began in February 2016. It will replace Edmonton’s existing energy-from-waste facility (easily seen from the North Circular and many local spots with an easterly viewpoint) with a new plant which, unlike the old one, will produce heat as well as power. Site preparations are currently.......
Ousmane Sembène, the father of African cinema, is one of the key directors of the 20th century and yet his works - still relevant today - remain unknown to many. The Sembène season at the Bernie Grant Centre will help plug this gap in public knowledge.
Sembène, born in Senegal in 1923, was both a film director and a writer, whose novels were written in French. His directorial career ran from 1963 until 2004 and his final film addressed the subject of female genital.......
The latest addition to the PGC Community Directory is a hockey club in Southgate which offers free weekly training sessions to members and non-members alike and is on the lookout for more members.
Southgate Adelaide is a men's club, but shares its facilities with a ladies' club, Hendon and Mill Hill Hockey Club
It runs three/four teams playing on the astroturf pitch at Ashmole Academy (Southgate, N14 5RJ) and does its socialising just down the road at the Walker Ground Clubhouse.......
Local volunteer Darius Hazelwood Horner, a member of the Southgate Green Association, has restored the Southgate Village Gates to their former glory.
Southgate originated as the "south gate" to Enfield Chase, the King's Hnting grounds.
A timber lynch gate marks the southern entrance to Southgate.
The Gates stand at the corner of Cannon Hill and Aldermans Hill N14 and had fallen into a state of disrepair.
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