02 July 2017
Enfield Council is consulting residents about its proposals to reduce the number of children's centres. Like other council services, spending reductions are required because of severe reductions in central government funding. The council's budget for children's centres is reducing from £1.6m to £1.03m per year.
The proposal is to reduce the number of children's centres hubs from four to one. The single hub would have "satellites" at schools throughout the borough.
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22 February 2017
The "hub" libraries are Palmers Green, Enfield Town, Ordnance Unity Centre and Fore Street. For opening hours see.......
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16 February 2017
Enfield Council have introduced a scheme whereby residents with severely restricted mobility can pay to have a disabled bay close to where they live reserved for their use alone.
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28 January 2017
The change from weekly to fortnightly collection of "green" (food and garden waste) recycling will occur in March. Ahead of the change households will be sent a calendar showing which weeks the green bins will be collected.
The following information is taken from the Council website:
Changes to your green bin service
In March 2017 your green bin service will become fortnightly. This will not affect the collection of your other bins or, in the vast majority of cases, the day of your.......
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11 December 2016
Topics on the agenda for the meeting of Southgate Ward Forum on 14th December include complaints about the recently relocated Southgate Library, the status of the proposal to build a new primary school adjacent to Grovelands Park and planting of flower beds around Southgate Station.
More information about the specific concerns about these three topics (and others) can be found in the draft minutes of the September ward forum meeting.
Southgate Ward Forum
Wednesday, 14th December, 2016 7.30.......
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21 November 2016
Enfield Council have recently clarified what exactly is allowed in the blue recycling wheelie bins. The main change is that plastic bags (including carrier bags) and plastic wrapping are no longer allowed, because other materials were being caught up in them.
For obvious reasons, the Council are adamant that nappies, even if unused, must not go in the blue bins, and the same is true of sanitary products. The Council is taking a "Zero Tolerance" approach because of the problems such.......
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30 September 2016
Following the public consultation on the future of "green bin" collections, Enfield Council's Cabinet will be presented with a paper recommending that collection of food and garden waste be reduced from once a week to once a fortnight.
A brief item about the proposed changes was posted on the council website yesterday. It states that 87 per cent of respondents to the survey preferred a free fortnightly collection rather than an optional paid for weekly green bin collection (£60 a.......
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20 August 2016
Information from the weekly newletter issued by London Councils.
Consultation on HIV prevention drugs
London Councils is calling on Londoners to respond to the NHS England online consultation on HIV prevention drugs, known as PrEP. The drugs can be prescribed to people at greatest risk of contracting HIV.
NHS England announced earlier this year that it does not have the power to commission PrEP, but a judicial review brought by the National Aids Trust determined that it could. NHS.......
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05 August 2016
A petition has been launched in support of a cross-party campaign demanding "Fairer Funding for Enfield".
The petition has been organised by the Enfield Over 50s Forum and has the strong support of both political parties represented on Enfield Council. Enfield residents of all ages are invited to sign - the effects of underfunding are felt across the generations.
FAIRER FUNDING FOR ENFIELD
A cross-political party Petition addressed to the Secretary of State, Department of.......
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10 May 2016
Enfield Council has found partners for two "community libraries" in the east of the borough. The builders are currently in at Ponders End Library, making room for the charity Age UK Enfield, which will be moving its headquarters to the library. Work is also under way at Enfield Highway Library, which will be sharing with a "public health services department".
Ponders End Library - and the new HQ of Age UK EnfieldTransforming the majority of the its libraries into community libraries.......
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09 May 2016
A book published by the Fabian Society with support from Groundwork, Keep Britain Tidy, the RSPB and the Woodland Trust addresses the challenge of maintaining the UK's parks and other green spaces in an age of Austerity.
Ed Wallis, the author of Places to Be: Green Spaces for Active Citizenship, sees green spaces as providing a "crucial community ballast". He sees an "opportunity to manage our green space in such way that empowers citizens, bolsters people’s sense of place and.......
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03 May 2016
Following our successful MPs event in December, EDA will host a local Councillors Question Time.
Doug Taylor the Leader of the Council has confirmed his attendance. We’re still waiting for others to confirm.
This is your opportunity to put your questions about the issues which affect your life including, cuts to local services, your experience of living and working in Enfield as deaf and disabled people, people who experience mental distress and those with long term health conditions.......
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02 March 2016
The Friends of Broomfield Park have written to Enfield councillors to express serious concerns about the impact of budget cuts on the management and upkeep of parks in the borough and on Broomfield Park in particular - "one of the jewels in the borough's crown".
The letter from the Friends, sent ahead of last week's full meeting of the Council, listed some of the impacts which the proposed cuts would have: reductions in grass cutting in parks, use of volunteers to pick up litter after.......
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28 February 2016
A charity which helps promote good practice among organisations involved in managing and supporting London's parks and other green spaces is calling on everyone who values them to lobby candidates for the upcoming Mayoral and Greater London Assembly elections.
The London Parks and Green Spaces Forum has written to Friends of Parks groups throughout the capital suggesting points which should be made to candidates. The Forum is particularly concerned about cuts in expenditure on parks by.......
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27 February 2016
The budget approved by the full meeting of Enfield Council on 24th February includes an increase in Council Tax of 1.99 per cent. However, because of a reduction in the contribution to the Greater London Authority the effective increase will be smaller - 1.78 per cent.
The paperwork for the budget debate is available at this link. This describes the background to the budget and medium-term financial plan and the cuts which will be made to various council services. To access.......
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17 February 2016
Date: 24 Feb 2016 -
10:00 to 12:00
Location: Main Hall, Park Avenue Disability Resource Centre, 65C Park Avenue, Enfield, EN1 2HL
Enfield Council are currently developing their Health & Adult Social Care Market Position Statement.
The production of a Market Position Statement (MPS) is a requirement of the Care Act.
The purpose of the MPS is to:
set out the Council’s direction of travel in relation to Health & Adult Social Care Services including strategic and legislative.......
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06 February 2016
Documents published ahead of the meeting of Enfield's Cabinet contain a wealth of information about financial plans, the Cycle Enfield A105 scheme and other important business.
The Cabinet meet on Wednesday 10th December at 8.15pm in the Civic Centre. The Public Information Pack (522 pages!) includes detailed information about many topics, including the following;
Budget 2016/17 and Medium Term Financial Plan 2016/17 to 2019/20.
A recommendation to raise Council Tax for.......
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25 November 2015
Enfield Council has withdrawn its proposal to completely cease providing drop-in access to its Local Studies Centre at the Dugdale Centre and to drastically scale back the Enfield Museum, which is also located at the Dugdale Centre. There will, however, still be cutbacks, though their scope is unclear.
"Just Married" might have been the last special exhibition at the Enfield Museum under the original proposalsThis rethink, announced on the Council website earlier today, is a response to.......
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03 November 2015
"Enfield 229" has issued a second bulletin with information about its campaign against drastic reductions in Enfield Council's Museums and Archives Service (see this earlier article). The campaigners are now expecting a decision by the end of November, but say that there have been contradictory indications about the proposed scale of cuts to the service.
Despite reassurances that "nothing has been finalised yet", the campaigners claim to have learnt that plans are in place to delete all.......
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20 October 2015
The Care Act introduces the most significant changes over the last 60 years. If you are a carer, receiving attendance allowance, disability allowance, personal payments then you really need to come along to the Ruth Winston Centre and listen to Michael Sprosson, Health Housing and Adult Social Care Team at Enfield Council to find out how it affects you. There will be a Q&A session after his talk.
The talk starts at 11am at the Ruth Winston Centre in the Davies Room on Friday.......
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