11 August 2014
A Resident's Questions about Car Parking for the new Flatsbehind the Town Hall
Why are there only six parking spaces allocated to the 19 “Affordable Housing” properties at the rear of Southgate Town Hall? As a resident also living in an “Affordable Housing” development, I know that everyone owns at least one vehicle. So it is inevitable, there will be more cars than parking spaces for properties at the rear of STH.
15 spaces which are council owned are "offered" these.......
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and forum comments
07 May 2014
Both the discussions on the mini-Holland scheme and the consultation on the future of Palmers Green raise issues about the shopping environment. One of the most significant influences on the street scene, whether in a Conservation Area (as along parts of Aldermans Hill) or more generally, is the appearance of shop fronts themselves.
This can be as subtle as the colouring and lettering on shop fronts or as “in your face” as the spread of the solid shop front security shutters which.......
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26 April 2014
A planning application pertaining to a new Sainsbury's Local store in Green Lanes was submitted to Enfield Council this week. As expected, it will occupy the premises previously belonging to the Turkish food shop 1001 Supermarket and the adjacent Palmers Green News paper shop. However, it does not include the former Coffee Culture cafe, which last week reopened as Kiva Coffee House and Brasserie (see this Enfield Independent report.).
Sainsbury's are planning to open the new store.......
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19 March 2014
Enfield Council has published a draft document outlining how it intends to manage the various town centres within the Borough and is asking for feedback from town centre users - retailers, people running other businesses, shoppers and those using town centres for leisure activities.
Enfield's Town Centres: Places for Everyone is officially described as a Draft Town Centres Management Framework, and the Council is inviting feedback via this page on its website. The deadline for comments.......
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24 February 2014
London residents have until 10 April to respond to a consultation by the Mayor of London on a number of proposed changes to the London Plan. The document being consulted on is referred to formally as the Draft Further Alterations to the London Plan.
The London Plan sets the context for local planning in relation to London's places, people, transport, response to climate change and economy and all its chapters are of great interest. However, from a community perspective, perhaps the most.......
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17 January 2014
Enfield Council is consulting residents about its proposal to introduce compulsory licensing of private landlords throughout the Borough. The private rented sector now accounts for about a fifth of homes in the Borough and is associated with increased levels of anti-social behaviour, such as noise nuisance, dumping of rubbish, pest infestations and unsightly front gardens. In some cases, landlords are failing to control the activities of their tenants, in others the landlords themselves are.......
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18 November 2013
Enfield Council has this week issued a document in which it expresses a concern that poor property and tenancy management by private landlords is a factor behind the increasing frequency of anti-social behaviour. It sees the problem as being so serious that "if the Council does not take decisive action, the indications are that the situation will continue to get worse, with parts of the Borough deteriorating in a negative spiral of poorer conditions - both for private tenants and their.......
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12 October 2013
The deadline is approaching for comments on an application to convert a disused 3-storey office building in Fox Lane into 21 flats.
The deadline for public comments on planning application P13-02624PRJ is Tuesday 15 October. The building in question is Dumayne House, which is situated on the southern side of Fox Lane, immediately to the West of the railway bridge........
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and forum comments
08 October 2013
At the Bowes, Palmers Green and Southgate Area Forum held on 25 July 2013 an update on relaxation of the rules regarding permitted development allowances was provided, as requested at the preceding Area Forum meeting. The text of the update was included in the published Minutes, from which the following text has been extracted.
Andy Higham (Head of Development Management) provided the following update on the latest changes/relaxation of the permitted development allowances for residential and.......
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20 August 2013
Enfield Council is currently inviting comments from the public on a document that will play an important role in future decisions on planning applications. The "Proposed Submission" version of the Development Management Document is due to be submitted to a government-appointed Planning Inspector later in the year, and residents have until 27 September to send in their comments.
The document, which can be downloaded from this page lays down policy for the following areas:
Housing (including.......
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22 July 2013
The agenda has now been published online for the meeting of the Bowes, Palmers Green and Southgate Green Area Forum on Thursday 25 July.
Attached to the minutes of the last meeting is a brief written update on the status of various planning applications submitted by the Notting Hill Housing Trust relating to the property it owns along the North Circular Road. This reads as follows:
Site 15abc (located at Pevensey Avenue/ Hastings Road) has been granted permission with.......
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24 June 2013
Broomfield Homeowners and Residents' Association (BHORA) are appealing for support from members of the public for their campaign to change plans for new flats which Notting Hill Housing Trust is set to build along the North Circular Road. BHORA want as many individuals as possible to send in separate objections to the planned construction on "Site 6" - for details of the plans, see this earlier report.
Caroline Chenier, Chairman of BHORA, has sent the following message to.......
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10 June 2013
The Green Lanes Business Association (GLBA) is urging Enfield Council to continue its opposition to the conversion of shops in Palmers Green Town Centre into other types of business, such as restaurants, cafes and fast-food outlets.
The GLBA recently raised the case of an application to convert the use category of the ground floor of 290 Green Lanes from A1 (shops) to mixed A1 and A3 (restaurants and cafes). In a letter to the Council's Planning Department, it suggests that the same arguments.......
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08 June 2013
Enfield Council in its role as a local housing authority is obliged to periodically review homelessness in the Borough and use it as the basis for revising its Homelessness Strategy, which is designed to prevent homelessness and provide advice to people who are in danger of, or are already, homeless.
The Council is inviting residents to contribute to the process by filling in an online survey.
In an introductory page on its website, the Council identifies the biggest challenges to.......
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26 April 2013
Despite vigorous opposition from existing local residents, at its meeting on 23rd April Enfield Council's Planning Committee approved applications from the Notting Hill Housing Trust to build new flats on two locations ("Site 11" and "Site 14") near the junction of Bowes Road and Telford Road on the North Circular. Among the concerns raised by opponents of the scheme are fears that the planned residential density is too high for the location and that there will be insufficient car parking space........
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17 March 2013
Enfield Council has now published the minutes of the Planning Panel meeting held on 28 February to discuss Notting Hill Housing Trust's planning applications for land near the Bowes Road/Telford Road intersection. The minutes record questions and comments made by local residents and councillors, along with the answers provided by the developers. As we reported earlier, the meeting was very well attended - the minutes estimate that 200 members of the public were present - which is indicative of.......
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11 January 2013
A group of local residents have raised concerns about an application by the Notting Hill Housing Association to demolish houses in Bowes Road between Powys Lane and Pymmes Close and build a total of 225 new dwellings. The concerns are outlined in some detail in a forum post on the Bowes & Bounds Connected website and relate the a planning application that can be accessed on the Enfield Council.......
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20 July 2020
The owners of the borough's two biggest shopping centres are asking customers about their views on planned changes to Palace Gardens and Palace Exhange (in Enfield Town) and the Edmonton Green shopping centre.
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