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News, comment and features
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The dates have been announced for the first public consultations about the planned Cycle Enfield/Mini Holland cycle routes. These will be "exhibitions" running from the afternoon to mid-evening. Members of the public will be able to call in, examine the plans, ask questions and feed back their initial views about the schemes. Later in the year there will be a "full and extensive public consultation".
The Palmers Green/Winchmore Hill consultation will be held at the Fox from 3pm to 8pm on.......
Healthwatch Enfield are recommending A Practical Guide to Healthy Ageing, which has just been published jointly by NHS England and Age UK.
According to the introduction, "the advice in this booklet will help improve the health and general fitness of people of any age, but it is written to be particularly relevant for people who are about 70 years or older.
"People of this age, and sometimes younger, begin a ‘slowing-down’ process related to the effects of ageing on their body. This is a.......
Friends of Broomfield Park are hoping to find a new home for the decorative railings that until not long ago adorned the entrances to the subterranean Ladies and Gentlemen's toilets at Palmers Green Triangle.
The planned new location is in front of the beautiful restored Conservatory in Broomfield Park, replacing the functional, but not exactly pretty, chainlink fence that currently protects the vulnerable building from vandals. A suitable design has been devised, but more money is.......
A list of proposed bus service changes, several of which would affect Palmers Green, was presented to Transport for London a year ago, but to date there has been no indication that any of the proposals will be implemented. A public meeting on 22nd January may shed some light on the situation.
The Enfield Bus Review
In.......
The campaigning group 20's Plenty for Us has published a document describing the status of various 20mph schemes throughout Greater London and the policy decisions (mainly from the Mayor of London's office) that have been leading to their becoming increasingly widespread throughout the capital.
A factor affecting policy was the rise in pedestrian and bicycle rider fatalities and serious injuries which was noted in 2011, reversing a prolonged reduction. Reacting to this, the GLA Transport.......
Some information about an exciting funding opportunity to get people all over Enfield involved in growing their own food.
A £500 grant is open to all community, voluntary, resident and faith organisations to support any activity that gets groups in the community together around food growing, for example:
Setting up a community garden or grow boxes
Running sessions in existing gardens
An intergenerational or intercultural project
Cookery sessions for your produce
Training sessions for.......
Earlier this month Andy Barker, in his role as Chairman of Fox Lane and District Residents' Association (FLDRA), attended the one of the Partnership Board meetings that are being held as part of the consultation about the Cycle Enfield ("Mini-Holland") scheme. This meeting relates to the section of route between Green Dragon Lane in the north and Broomfield Lane in the south.
The yellow lines show an alternative to creating cycle lanes along Green Lanes. If this option is chosen, TfL will.......
“I never thought I would hear a passenger say to me bring back First Capital Connect." A quote from Anthony Smith, Chief Executive of the transport watchdog Passenger Focus, emphasizing how poor has been the performance of the Govia consortium since it took over the Great Northern and Thameslink routes last September.
Govia's bad start - three to four per cent of services failed to run in the first twelve weeks of the new franchise - proved to be only a prelude to its appalling.......
Caught up in train disruption to/from London Paddington or to/from London King's Cross on Saturday 27 December?
The rail industry must establish what went wrong and take steps to stop it happening again – that is a given. Passenger Focus, the independent watchdog, wants to know how well things were handled from a passenger perspective – in terms of information, of the alternative arrangements, of how you were looked after.
Passenger Focus will use this feedback to provide a.......
The Green Lanes Business Association (GLBA), which works on behalf of businesses in Palmers Green (mainly shops), has released the text of a letter which it sent to the Mayor of London's Cycling Commissioner in December.
The beginning of Mr Georgiou's letter to the Cycling Commissioner (click on the image to view the complete original letter)The letter from GLBA Chairman Costas Georgiou was sent to the Cycling Commissioner, Andrew Gilligan, and copied to a number of local and national.......
Maybe you used to play a brass instrument at school and would like to return to playing or have never played anything and would like to learn to play? Here's your opportunity!
London Metropolitan Brass set up a beginners band a year ago and since then have taught over 40 people to play, free-of-charge. We are very active within the local community, having played over recent weeks in East Finchley, Crouch End and Bounds Green Bowls Club.
If you'd like to come down and join in the fun, we.......
The Charity SpEC is looking for volunteers to help it set up Speaking English with Confidence clubs in Enfield. It has arranged five training sessions at the Civic Centre in Enfield Town (Silver Street EN1 3XA) during February. The sessions are at:
9.30am Tuesday 3rd February
9.30am Thursday 5th February
9.30am Monday 9th February
9.30am Thursday 12th February
9.30am Tuesday 17th February
It is essential to attend all five sessions.
Do you have a genuine commitment to.......