12 February 2016
Mike McClean has sent a final message to supporters of the Save the Green Dragon Campaign:
It's all over. Planning permission has been granted for the development of The Green Dragon site. We made our final representations at the planning hearing last night but were unsuccessful.
Many thanks to everybody who supported the campaign in any way over the past year, we did our very best and it was heartwarming to see so many people standing together to try to save our beloved pub. The final total.......
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18 November 2015
Southgate District Civic Trust is hoping to enlist the support of local MP David Burrowes for a new Parliamentary grouping that will be seeking to ensure that the views of local communities are taken into account in the planning process.
The new All Party Parliamentary Group for Civic Societies has been set up in conjunction with Civic Voice, a national charity to which Southgate District Civic Trust (SDCT) is affliated. Its initial focus will be on the historic environment, in which.......
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09 November 2015
Subjects on the agenda for this Wednesday's meeting of the full Enfield Council include protection of Green Belt land within the borough, gambling policy and progress on prevention of child sexual exploitation.
The Green Belt is the subject of two items:
presentation of a petition from Enfield RoadWatch in opposition to proposals to build housing and a school on land to the south of Enfield Road (between Oakwood and Enfield Town), followed by discussion of the subject matter
discussion of a.......
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06 November 2015
Enfield RoadWatch Action Group - formed to campaign against a proposal to build on Green Belt land between Enfield Town and Oakwood - have launched a photograph and slogan competition designed to publicise their campaign.
So far the nearly 4000 people have signed the online petition against building on the land.
For the background to the campaign, see this earlier report.
Enfield RoadWatch Action Group is delighted to announce the first
'Our Green Belt Enfield'
Photograph.......
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11 October 2015
The Pinkham Way Alliance has now published the response it submitted to the consultation about the North London Waste Plan. Following a fundraising campaign, the Alliance was able to employ a planning consultancy, Turley, to present arguments against the allocation of Pinkham Wood as a potential site for waste processing, and, more generally, to question the draft Waste Plan's assumptions about future waste volumes and required processing throughput.
The Response and associated.......
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04 October 2015
If you're not a regular visitor to Palmers Green Jewel in the North (and if not, why not?) you may have missed Sue Beard's series of reports on work done by her and others to identify "built heritage" that merits Local Listing (see this earlier report).
Part of The Market shopping parade in Green Lanes, built by Arthur SykesAs part of this grand effort to document interesting buildings, Sue has been allocated a pretty large area to survey - east of the railway line, including central Palmers.......
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26 September 2015
An application for planning permission submitted by the owners of the former Green Dragon pub in Winchmore Hill envisages some alterations to the existing building and the construction of "town houses" on the car park. Mike and Sharon McClean, who set up the Save the Green Dragon campaign, are unhappy about the proposed changes and intend to submit formal objections.
The planning application details are available online at this link (NB the link in the McCleans's original email does not.......
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11 September 2015
The developer Fairview Homes is inviting the public to an exhibition of its plans to build around 300 dwellings and a new school on Green Belt land between Oakwood and Enfield Town.
The site is a large field on the south side of Enfield Road, extending downhill as far as Boxers Lake. The proposal has already run into considerable opposition both from people living in the vicinity and from others who are opposed to inpinging on Green Belt land.
At this stage Fairview have not.......
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12 August 2015
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.......
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22 July 2015
The project to indentify and record local "built heritage" that we have reported on previously (on 6th June and 13th June) is now well under way, but there is still time for new volunteer surveyors to come forward and for anyone to suggest buildings or other objects that they think might be suitable for "local listing".
The project involves many local societies and other groups, but the three main bodies involved are Enfield Council, the Enfield Society and Urban Vision. Urban Vision are.......
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15 July 2015
These are the new shopfronts in original style that were recently installed in Myddleton Road, Bowes Park, replacing the unattractive frontages that had been fitted to these shops.
The restoration work cost more than £200,000, the funds coming from Haringey Council, Historic England and the shopkeepers. As well as the work on the shopfronts, new sash windows have been fitted to upper storeys.
An official opening ceremony was held on 7th July, organised by We Love Myddleton.......
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07 July 2015
The organisers of the Save the Green Dragon campaign have reported that their email account has been attacked by hackers and are asking supporters to resend messages. It is unclear whether this is an example of the "normal" type of Internet crime or a deliberate attempt to sabotage the campaign.
During June hackers broke into the email account and diverted messages sent to the campaign to another email address that the hackers control. As a consequence, the Campaign did not receive.......
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19 June 2015
Following statement appeared was posted on the Enfield Council websitewebsite and dated 17th June.
Enfield Council sets up Trent Park Mansion Working Group
The Council has set up a cross party councillor Working Group to work with the Receiver tasked with finding a buyer for the Trent Park Mansion building. The Group will be meeting the Receiver shortly to emphasise that the views of the local community should be taken into account in any development proposals that come forward in the future........
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17 June 2015
Mike McClean, organiser of the Save the Green Dragon campaign, is asking supporters to reply to a survey being run by the pub's new owners, Green Lanes Investments. Mike's message is reproduced below.
Friends,
The developers who currently own the Green Dragon pub have, via their PR Company, started to distribute promotional material around the local area which is intended to try and gain some support for their plan to end 300 years of Winchmore Hill history for their own.......
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13 June 2015
As we reported last week, Enfield Council in conjunction with the Enfield Society and Historic England are planning to recruit and train local community groups and individuals to help with a project to create a comprehensive new local list of heritage assets in the borough. The training will enable volunteers to identify buildings and structures that are worthy of listing.
An example of our local built heritage: the King's Head in Enfield Town (photograph courtesy of the Enfield Society).......
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06 June 2015
The Enfield Society and Enfield Council are planning a project to review Enfield’s local heritage list and are looking for volunteers to help. The local listing replaced the old Grade III listing which ceased to be continued in 1974.
Enfield has a list of buildings and features of special architectural or historic interest on its website. However, this is out of date and needs complete revision. The Enfield Society is working with Enfield Council to help to do this. Consultants are.......
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02 June 2015
Southgate District Civic Trust's application to register the Fox pub as an Asset of Community Value has been successful. Enfield Council notified the Trust last week that the application had satisfied the rigorous requirements set down in the legislation - the first ACV application to do so anywhere in the borough.
An important factor was undoubtedly the fact that important community events are held in the large function room at the rear of the Fox. Recently the room has been used.......
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20 May 2015
Efforts are continuing to obtain the funds needed to restore Broomfield House. In preparation for a probable public consultation exercise later in the year, a model of the house dating from 1951 (the model, that is - the house is rather older!) is to go on show. It is hoped that a Conservation Management Plan for the whole of Broomfield Park, currently in development, will enable the Broomfield House Trust and Enfield Council to make a second, successful, bid for Heritage Lottery.......
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19 May 2015
We've written before about how North London Samaritans would like to restore the "Tin Tabernacle" at Bowes Park and use it to run their live-saving services. Now the insurance company Aviva has included it in the Aviva Community Fund. You can register with the Community Fund and will be given ten votes to distribute as you choose between the 3000+ projects.
Depending on how many votes it collects, the Shaftesbury Hall Refurbishment Project (to use its official title) could receive.......
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14 May 2015
The Save the Green Dragon Campaign is reporting that its demonstration outside the Civic Centre on Wednesday went well - they estimate that about 150 protesters turned out. They were able to deliver an open letter (see below) to the new Mayor, Councillor Patricia Ekechi, and to the many councillors who were there to witness her induction into office. Two local MPs were among the supporters - David Burrowes (Enfield Southgate) and Joan Ryan (Enfield North). As a result of their.......
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