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Enfield Council is consulting residents, as well as "anybody with an interest in Enfield", about proposed changes to the Statement of Community Involvement. This document, which was originally issued in 2006, "seeks to ensure the active, meaningful and continued involvement of local communities and stakeholders in planning". It sets out how, when and who will be consulted throughout the preparation of Local Plan and other statutory planning documents prepared by the Council, and in.......
Bob Griffiths has kindly emailed copies of the key illustrations giving possible road layouts for Green Lanes. One is for stretches with little or no retail activity and one which might apply to Palmers Green where there are shops etc on both sides of the road. Each starts with an "as now" cross section, which is followed by possible layouts using the same overall shop frontage to shop frontage distance across the road so they are intended to be easily comparable.
Better quality versions of.......
Ahead of tomorrow's Cycle Enfield ("Mini-Holland") exhibition and consultation at the Fox (3pm to 8pm), Enfield Council have released a short video explaining the thinking behind the scheme.
The video also outlines further consultation stages.
To go to the YouTube pages, click on the picture above, or view the embedded video below........
The Southgate Green Association (SGA) is asking members of the public to object to an application to erect a 15 metre high mobile phone mast on the grass verge outside the Southgate Beaumont building in Cannon Hill. The following text is taken from the SGA website:
An application has been made for the installation of a telephone mast and four ancillary cabinets on the verge opposite the junction of Cannon Hill and Selborne Road, outside the Southgate Beaumont. Jan 2015
The mast.......
The owners of Palmers Green bus garage, Arriva London ("a DB Company" - ie owned by the German state railways), have applied for planning permission to demolish two buildings next to the garage (to its east) and use the land as an open-air bus park. However, there are no plans to expand the number of buses which are housed at the garage - the maximum number will remain at 69. This number of buses is in fact rather too many for the size of the building, meaning that manoeuvring of buses.......
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.......
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.......
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.......
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.......
The first meeting of the Cycle Enfield Partnership Board to consider plans for a "key cycling commuter route" linking Enfield Town with Palmers Green will take place in the second week in January.
At the meeting selected "stakeholders" will discuss the section of cycle route between Vicars Moor Lane (Winchmore Hill) and Broomfield Lane (Palmers Green). As well as looking at the proposal for segregated cycle lanes along Green Lanes, passing through Winchmore Hill and Palmers Green town.......