Coming up: a summer full of festivals
One month until the festivals season starts in Broomfield Park. This year's Summer Festival follows the same successful formula as last year's - something for all ages and tastes: a mixture of live music, open-air theatre and musicals and fine dining under the apple trees. Then on 3rd September - the return of the Big One - the Palmers Green Festival itself!
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Eight-year-old dies after being hit by car in Winchmore Hill
An 8-year-old boy pedestrian was killed in a collision in Green Lanes, Winchmore Hill, on Friday 28th April.
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Fruit flies, the Caterpillar Club, a celebrity jackdaw and chocolate digestives...
If a prolific award-winning local children's author and TV scriptwriter hadn't run out of fruit flies, she might never have heard the fascinating true stories about a celebrity jackdaw and a prisoner-of-war in Nazi Germany, recounted by a former head keeper at London Zoo, that she retells in her new book, out this week.
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A cinema for PG? Back to the drawing board for campaigners
Six months ago PGC called on readers to help the Palmers Green Action Team and Arthouse Cinema's campaign to persuade landlords of large empty properties in PG to agree to let one to be used as a multiscreen cinema and community hub. Those efforts have come to nothing, but the ambition of bringing a picturehouse to PG has not been abandoned.
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Pinkham Way - even more valuable today
The management of waste in north London has long been an area of concern, all too often subject to seemingly unsatisfactory answers to reasonable questions. The new incinerator project at Edmonton Eco Park progresses but the land at Pinkham Way remains untouched. Its value and basis of valuation has long been a moot point – a Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC), part owned by Barnet Council, the remainder by the NLWA, subject to contamination in past years, making any clear-up extremely costly.
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Manager vacancy at recently opened studio in Palmers Green
Arbeit Studios is advertising to recruit a Community & Site Manager for its recently opened studio at 310c Green Lanes, Palmers Green.
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Out of work and keen to get into the creative industries?
Collage Arts are running the free Creative Re-Work programme plus some free weekly online events for people keen to work in the creative industries but currently out of work or needing to upskill.
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Also this week...
When nearly 3 million emergency food parcels are needed, it's time to Guarantee our Essentials - Forum comments
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Return of the child-friendly city? How social movements are changing European urban areas
Why are so many Londoners trapped in poverty, and what can we do about it?
As the climate crisis unfolds it will become more and more common for people to move this is the reality
Work to make Finsbury Park station completely step-free now complete
Recently uncovered Roman Wall in the City of London given heritage protection
London exhibitions to visit in May 2023
London Underground to close Kentish Town tube station for a year
Detailed maps of London's Superloop bus service released
More details of Superloop route through Enfield revealed
London's small arts and culture venues 'struggling to survive'
Call-out for Enfield artists to help brighten up town centres
Food charity expands Enfield depot to help meet growing demand
Lack of trust in Met Police handling of missing children cases, report warns
Council selling off homes at auction despite borough housing crisis
Capacity pressures' on emergency services could impact terror response
Hundreds of millions added to cost of incinerator project
New bus stops prompt anger on Worlds End 'road rage' street
What is the ULEZ row about and what's at stake?
Consultations and surveys
New Southgate Station to Palmers Green Station walking and cycling route (Enfield Council 7/5/2023)
Sport and physical activity facility provision (select 9/5/2023)
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