Palmers Green Town Centre Improvement Project 2012: Survey responses

Question 1.  What do think is good about the area?

Good – parks, assortment of shops and eating places. Generally a pleasant place to live

Question 2.  What do you think is less good about the area?

Less good  - general lack of respect and consideration by residents and those passing through (particularly motorists) for others in the community.

Question 3. What would you like to see to improve the area?

Improve  - penalties for those who leave their bins on the pavement over 24 hrs, eh Borne Hill N13. Motorists who drive over grass kerbs, ruining the grass and spreading ??? over the pavements. Landlords of rented properties who A) extend without planning permission B) don’t ensure their tenants decent behaviour

Question 4a. Specific aspects – traffic

Traffic – much too fast, particularly in side roads

Question 4b. Specific aspects – parking

Parking – free or cheaper parking fees might benefit shops .double yellow lines on green lanes outside st Monica’s church seem unnecessary as that part of green lanes doesn’t suffer traffic congestion. Parishioners attending the 930 mass on weekdays and who arrive even a few minutes before 930 have been issued with fines. Quite unnecessary.

Question 4c. Specific aspects – clutter

Look of shops – sorry to see the old original frontages being done away with

Question 4d. Specific aspects – look of the shops/architecture

Type of shops – free or cheaper parking may help shoppers linger longer, thereby encouraging other shops to open up

Question 4e. Specific aspacts – type and range of shops

Pavement –OK

Question 4g. Specific aspects – the Triangle public space

Triangle – buskers ?

Question 4h. Specific aspects – Greenery

Greenery  -excellent

Any other comments

Other –

1. I would like to see restrictions on paved front gardens which are often cemented before being bricked
2. also  on number of dropped kerbs and their width – where are visitors to park?
3.  Regular pruning of street trees, cracks are appearing in the front of all houses and although the Council have been informed that surveyors have shown concern only “routine” letters are sent out. No’s 69, 75 and 77 are displaying cracks and have coincidently trees outside.
4. A cluster of not very well supervised care in the community houses in the area of Burford gardens
5. Unregulated destruction / construction of properties. Why aren’t developers who flaunt the law penalised severely? Eg if they demolish properties without permission they should not be allowed to build on the land for at least 12 months. Unregulated extensions should be demolished.

We need to return to being a decent society, where, as Barak Obama once said self-interest should be inextricably linked with the interests of others