27 March 2015
The Friends of Firs Farm Park are celebrating the success of their campaign to revitalise this large green space on the Winchmore Hill/Edmonton borders. The Firs Farm Wetlands scheme gathered the highest number of votes from members of the public among the projects shortlisted for money from the Mayor of London's Big Green Fund II.
As the result of a vigorous campaign by the Friends , the project received more than 2000 votes and has been awarded the highest amount available - £175,000........
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26 January 2015
Friends of Broomfield Park are looking for volunteers to help them launch their latest project - creating a Community Growing Space on an area next to Broomfield Community Orchard.
A typical growing space
The Friends recently reached agreement with Enfield Council to take over an area of the Park measuring.......
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09 January 2015
A project to create an attractive wetlands habitat from a previously underused green space has been shortlisted for support from the Mayor of London's Big Green Fund.
Firs Farm, the open space to the south of Firs Lane on the Winchmore Hill/Edmonton border, has up to now been associated mainly with football pitches and dog walking (though earlier in its history it was used as a shelter for prisoners of war). However, its transformation is already under way, thanks to collaboration.......
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07 December 2014
The website Changing London has published the fifth in a series of publications which set out "a vision for London's next Mayor".
A Healthy City - a city that does no harm and tackles sickness at source can be downloaded from the Changing London website. The website's introductory page (reproduced below) concludes by pointing out the remarkable success of New York's Mayor Bloomberg in increasing life expectancy in his city through a series of measures to improve public health.
London is.......
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29 September 2014
Despite being part of a big city, we're certainly not short of green space in Palmers Green and around. Broomfield Park, Arnos Park and Grovelands Park immediately spring to mind, but the smaller patches of green are also very important. Firs Farm Playing Fields is an excellent example of a smaller, but very attractive "green lung". Like the bigger parks, it now has its own "Friends", a group being set up by local resident Toni Guiver. The Friends of Firs Farm have their.......
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26 September 2014
The latest addition to our Community Directory is the Enfield Veg Co, whose mission is to provide us with locally grown, super-fresh organic vegetables, which it delivers once a weed to four pick-up points, one of which is in Palmers Green - Baskerville's Tea Shop. We'll let them introduce themselves.
Introducing the Enfield Veg Co.
Enfield Veg Co. is a local, organic veg bag delivery scheme run by Forty Hall Farm in north Enfield. The Farm is part of Capel Manor College. When you sign.......
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11 April 2013
On 11 April Enfield Council announced that it was launching the Cleaner Streets Campaign, aimed at reducing littering, dog fouling, fly tipping and untidy front gardens. At present details are sketchy, but it would appear from the announcement on the Council's website and from an earlier message from the Council Leader that the campaign involves:
cutting the cost of street cleaning by encouraging residents to "clean up after themselves" - to be achieved both by encouraging people to join.......
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02 November 2022
The Big Issue Group has launched a campaign demanding long-term solutions to protect future generations and break the cycle of poverty. An open letter to the government has been signed by politicians from across the political spectrum as well as by other people from all walks of life.
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17 October 2020
Biodiversity is declining globally but one option for helping to reverse this issue is to improve natural spaces in cities for wildlife. This research project is exploring ways in which people perceive nature-based solutions to urban planning problems so that we can better enhance cities for people and nature.
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06 April 2022
Tired of seeing and smelling pollution from your local river? Join the Thames21 WATERBLITZ across the Pymmes, Salmons and Turkey Brooks.
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27 April 2022
Watch a recording of Tuesday evening's EnCAF Environmental Hustings, where candidates from three political parties were questioned about their policies.
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14 July 2020
Overnight on Sunday/Monday this week a thousand posters popped up around London and other parts of the country, encouraging people to ditch the car and walk, scoot or cycle instead when schools resume in September. The posters had been sent out in secret to supporters by the clean air campaign group Mums for Lungs, which was established in 2017 when a group of parents walking around South London with small babies became aware of the toxic levels of air pollution on London's streets.
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29 October 2025
A public consultation on automatic penalties for water companies that breach regulations runs until 3rd December.
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09 September 2021
This week's Palmers Green Community Newsletter showed the wrong date for the Enfield Society's tree-based walk from Chase Farm to Trent Park. The correct date is 18th September.
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11 February 2022
Ahead of May's council elections, London clean air campaigners Mums for Lungs have published their list of four 'asks' that they will be putting to all parties who will be standing candidates.
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09 March 2023
Ahead of a meeting of Enfield Council's Environment and Climate Change Scrutiny Panel, members of Enfield Climate Action Forum's air pollution working group have written to all councillors who are members of the Forum to draw attention to a document which the working group submitted during a consultation last year, setting out actions that they consider important for incorporation in the borough's next Air Quality Action Plan.
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01 May 2024
A couple of months ago PGC published an invitation to join in work to clear floating pennywort from the Lee Navigation. Pippa Rowlinson has been back in touch with a new date, Sunday 26th May. This time the work will be carried out in the vicinity of Springfield Marina in Clapton
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