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The Cycle Enfield website includes the official responses to various criticisms of the A105 scheme. However, because people may not be aware of these, we are reproducing them here both to make them more widely known and to give readers an opportunity to comment and discuss them in our forums.
The following text is taken directly from Cycle Enfield without any amendment.
Impact on pedestrian crossings
There are many improvements proposed to improve crossings for pedestrians........
The Cycle Enfield website includes the official responses to various criticisms of the A105 scheme. However, because people may not be aware of these, we are reproducing them here both to make them more widely known and to give readers an opportunity to comment and discuss them in our forums.
The following text is taken directly from Cycle Enfield without any amendment.
Impact on parking
Enfield Council understand that car parking is an important component of our hight streets........
On the Cycle Enfield website the introductory page for the A105 consultation has been revised and now has a "visualisation" of how Palmers Green Triangle might look after implementation of the cycle lanes scheme. The option that is illustrated is the one that retains the Triangle traffic island.
As the Council has emphasised from the outset, the proposals include improvements not just for cyclists, but also for other road users. The Triangle proposals, for example, would provide.......
Starting this week, local people will be asked by Enfield Council to give their views about what should be done with the fire-damaged remains of Broomfield House. The consultation - oneline and by post - will also ask about options for the future of the historic Stableyard and of Broomfield Park as a whole.
This Sunday's Palmers Green Festival will provide an opportunity to find out more about the house and future options. Enfield Council will have a stall where you'll be able to.......
An 18th century stone boundary marker destroyed by council workmen years ago and left in ruins has been rebuilt by local conservation group Southgate Green Association. Local stonemasons Abacus Stone were awarded the task of piecing together the obelisk using methods adopted to restore the temple ruins at Karnak, Egypt. The obelisk is one of two remaining in Enfield.
The obelisk is located on Waterfall Road down the road from The Green, set back from the kerb on the bend and hidden from view.......
The redrafted version of the North London Waste Plan is currently out for consultation. The previous version of the Waste Plan was withdrawn because it had not been properly consulted with affected authorities outside London.
Any resident is able to comment, but clearly most people will not have the expertise to assess the validity of the data it is based on and the policies it proposes. The Pinkham Way Alliance, however, does have the required expertise and is currently formulating.......
Enfield Council are consulting residents about proposals for a controlled parking zone in Palmerston Crescent. There is current and likely future pressure on parking in this street because of the ongoing "Deadmans Bridge" sewer replacement work, the new flats being built on the site of the former Town Hall and in the grounds of Truro House and the planned increase in the number of buses based at Palmers Green bus garage.
For fuller information, see the Bowes & Bounds Connected.......
A resident of the Lakes Estate has contacted us with information about a notice posted outside the former Anthony Webb shop in Aldermans Hill.
I just wondered if residents on the Lakes Estate are aware of the new planning notice in the window of the premises on the corner of Lakeside Road and Aldermans Hall? Anthony Webb were there briefly, but the new owner (who has stated that it will be a coffee house) has now applied for a licence for alcohol, music and TV. I wonder if the.......
The photograph below was taken by David March in Waterfall Road on Tuesday morning.
Considering the speed at which many drivers descend the hill, a similar incident was probably inevitable sooner or later.
It's only a few weeks since a driver turned his car over in Park Avenue, which is an entirely residential side street, not a race track.
Incidents of dangerous driving by "boy racers" occur frequently, probably several times a day. Why do we let them get away with it?.......
The Pinkham Way Alliance, which is campaigning against industrial use of a nature conservation site adjacent to the North Circular Road, is participating in a London-wide study into air quality. If the monitoring confirms that the air near this stretch of the A406 is already very seriously polluted, this will help strengthen the campaigners' arguments against use of the site for processing household and industrial waste, which would inevitably result in even more lorry traffic along the.......