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Following two highly successful annual Southgate and Palmers Green Open Studios and Art Fairs, local designer Dan Maier has set up a new organisation, Creative Exchange, which she describes as a "collective of designers, craftspeople and artists". Creative Exchange is centered on Southgate, Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill but welcomes members from elsewhere in Enfield, Barnet and surrounding areas.
Creative Exchange's next major event will be a Designer Craft and Art Fair, to be.......
The agenda has now been published online for the meeting of the Bowes, Palmers Green and Southgate Green Area Forum on Thursday 25 July.
Attached to the minutes of the last meeting is a brief written update on the status of various planning applications submitted by the Notting Hill Housing Trust relating to the property it owns along the North Circular Road. This reads as follows:
Site 15abc (located at Pevensey Avenue/ Hastings Road) has been granted permission with.......
Photograph by Craig Boulton
A North London community brass band is looking for new members - both experienced musicians for their public performances and non-players who would like to learn a brass instrument.
Fortismere Community Brass was set up in March 2013 in association with Fortismere Music Centre to provide a quality community-focused, not-for-profit brass band in the local community in Muswell Hill, Fortis Green and the surrounding area.
The band rehearses on Friday evenings at.......
If you have a child aged between six and nine who enjoys outdoor play, crafts, games, making friends and camping, then Palmers Green Woodcraft Folk might be just what you're looking for.
The local group currently has vacancies for Sunshine Elfins, the youngest category of Woodcraft Folk. They meet on Wednesday evenings between 6pm and 7.15pm at Hazelwood School in Hazelwood Lane.
The Woodcraft Folk are a national educational movement which promotes a cooperative approach to life........
Enfield Council are consulting residents about a proposed new zebra crossing on Aldermans Hill. The proposal is for a crossing just to the west of the junction with Old Park Road - situated approximately where the small black car is on the photograph. There would be a pedestrian refuge in the middle of the road.
Residents have until 23 August to respond to the survey. The Council's website has links to a leaflet, a detailed plan and an online questionnaire........
The public meeting on Thursday afternoon (18 July) at which London Borough of Enfield (LBE) officers outlined ideas for building a new school on part of the historic parkland of the former Grovelands House revealed considerable hostility to the idea among the packed audience. In actual fact, the concepts described would largely use land which does not form part of the current Grovelands Park, would seek to make any new buildings inconspicuous, and in any case would require approval from.......
Campaigners wishing to retain and enhance Enfield Borough's green spaces have expressed alarm at suggestions that a new primary school might be built on Grovelands Park. The Federation of Enfield Residents and Allied Associations (FERAA) and Enfield Green Party are both concerned about the wording in a letter from Gary Barnes, Assistant Director for Regeneration, Leisure and Libraries at Enfield Council, which states that the Council is to appoint external consultants to help it "develop.......
As part of this year's Black History Month, Enfield Council is planning two special events at the Dugdale Centre in Enfield Town, to be held on the evenings of Monday 14th and Tuesday 29th October. This will be an opportunity of residents of the Borough to perform - whether it be singing, dancing, poetry, comedy or public speaking - and help celebrate the diversity of the London Borough of Enfield.
If you would like to perform on one of those two evenings, you should.......
Enfield Volunteer Action (EVA) has issued a new edition of its quarterly bulletin Volunteering in Enfield, covering the period July to September 2013 and listing opportunities for volunteers in 15 different categories.
EVA is supported by Enfield Council and its aims are to promote volunteering, assist potential volunteers to find fulfilling and approriate volunteering roles, support local charities and organisations which involve volunteers in their work, and promote good.......
Members of the public have been invited to let Transport for London (TfL) know which of two options for a new underground line they would prefer. Both options for the Crossrail 2 line would provide new links from Alexandra Palace and Turnpike Lane stations to central London, Clapham Junction and Wimbledon.
The cheaper of the two proposals, the Metro Option, would be for a light rail system with four-carriage trains similar to those running on the Docklands Light Railway, but running in a tunnel.......
The recorded memories of residents who visited Broomfield House before the disastrous fires in the 1980s will form a central part of a film which is currently being made about the House. Film maker Christine Lalla has interviewed a number of local people about their reminiscences and the recordings will feature in the soundtrack of the film, which will be used to publicise the work of the Broomfield House Working Party to rebuild and reopen the historic building for community use.
With.......
North London residents are being asked to sign and promulgate a petition calling for a complete rethink about planning for the future of waste processing and disposal across the area. The petition, organised by the Pinkham Way Alliance (PWA), calls on the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) to abandon its current plans to let out a 30-year contract for the handling of waste from seven North London boroughs and instead develop a completely revised waste plan which would not bind the.......