24 January 2014
Introduction to the Lakes Estate Conservation Area pages on the Palmers Green Community website
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06 January 2014
Why you should join the Friends of the Lakes Estate Conservation Area
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07 October 2013
Two local community groups are continuing their efforts to save a mature oak following an appeal against a Council rejection of an application to fell it.
The tree (see photograph) is located close to Lady Shaw Court, a modern development near the intersection of Fox Lane and St Georges Road, and is one of only a few trees on the Lakes Estate which are subject to a Tree Preservation Order. When an application to fell the tree was submitted to Enfield Council in April this year, both the.......
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28 September 2013
A conservation group has expressed concern about Network Rail's planned tree removals alongside the railway in Palmers Green, which is due to begin on Monday 30th September (this this earlier report).
Colin Younger, Chair of the Lakes Estate Conservation Area Study Group, has written to Network Rail to express the Group's worries that the "attention" to "more sycamore trees" which the rail company say is needed might lead to wholesale removal of tree cover, as has happened along other sections.......
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25 September 2013
Network Rail are to carry out work on trees on railway land in Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill. The work, to be carried out between 30th September and 11th October, will affect "approximately 10-12 trees" which have been identified by an arboricultural survey as dead, diseased or dying.
The approximate locations of the trees affected are shown on the maps.
Network Rail have stated that the work is necessary to maintain a reliable and safe railway and have pointed out that last year a.......
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