13 December 2016
Enfield Council's Planning Committee will next week be asked to approve a change of use application which will permit the operation of a gymnasium in part of the Palmers Green Library that was previously earmarked for use as a GP surgery.
The application to be considered at the meeting on 20th December has the following heading:
LOCATION: Southgate Town Hall, 251 Green Lanes, N13 4XE
PROPOSAL: Change of use of part of ground floor and basement from health centre / doctors surgery (use class.......
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01 April 2015
People who were in the vicinity of the former Southgate Town Hall early this morning have mentioned that something unusual seemed to be happening - there was a distinct buzz of activity. One of our sources was told that when demolishing an internal wall workers came across some sort of old manuscript and that a Mr Goole got in contact with the Council to report the find. However, when we tried later this morning to talk to the people working on the building, they seemed very.......
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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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29 April 2014
Betty Wright was born in Southgate Town Hall in 1927 and grew up there. She would love to see its interior again before the developers get to work turning it into flats. Someone trying to help her achieve that ambition is Suzanne Beard of Palmers Green Jewel in the North, who recently wrote an open letter to a number of Enfield councillors asking them to try to arrange this, pointing out that she had earlier written to the then Mayor making the same request, but after a promising.......
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20 November 2013
The sale of the former Southgate Town Hall is proceeding. Contracts have now been exchanged for the transfer of the building in Green Lanes, Palmers Green, to the property developer Hollybrook Homes.
Hollybrook are planning to build between 30 and 40 one-, two- and three-bedroom flats within the shell of the Town Hall and in a new-build block to the rear. At least some of the flats will be "affordable".
The exterior of the building will not be altered, but the interior will be completely.......
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30 October 2013
Update on the project to sell off the former Southgate Town Hall in Palmers Greenand convert it into flats
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22 October 2013
Enfield Council have promised to update the public on the future of Southgate Town Hall at the Area Forum meeting this week, and it is hoped that more information will be made available about work currently under way to improve the appearance of Palmers Green Triangle........
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