This update has just been received from Pinkham Way Alliance.....

The bad news first. As predicted, the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) are making it clear that they will push straight ahead with their plans to choose a bidder to develop Pinkham Way, who will then put in a detailed planning application for the site.

We did formally suggest to the waste authority that, with the North London Waste Plan (NLWP) derailed, now was the ideal time to take stock, and work together on a sensible and sustainable plan for north London’s waste.

However, they have taken no notice; they're going to forget the waste plan, and get on with their procurement anyway.  If this sounds outrageous and ominous, that’s because it is both.

It hardly needs saying, but collective action and fundraising are more vital than ever to our chances of stopping them. News on responding to the current Haringey consultation will follow very soon, and we must push for as many responses as possible.

Palmers Green Festival is organised by local volunteers.  They are now looking for people to sign up for Festival 2013 in various forms: interest, volunteers, stallholders, so if you would like to get involved please register on their website www.palmersgreenfestival.org.uk 

The Broomfield House Community Working Group, which consists of Friends of Broomfield Park and Trustees of the Broomfield House Trust, believe that they have turned a corner and are now working closely with the Council on a joint proposal to restore the House, Baroque Water gardens and Stable Yard. Here is a statement from the team....

We are embarking on two main funding applications from the Heritage Lottery Fund - one for the House and one for the Stable yard and Gardens.  The first one is due for submission on the 22nd of October and focuses on the House.  In support of this activity, we have put together an online survey to enable people to review the outline plan (attached) and comment on what they would like to see in the project. 

No doubt you are aware of the plans to build a waste management site along the A406 and the huge campaign mounted to stop the scheme. Here is the latest update from the Pinkham Way Alliance.  For more details or to get involved visit their website (http://www.pinkhamwayalliance.org/).

North London Waste Plan (NLWP).  The NLWP, which fixes a waste strategy for the seven north London boroughs for the next 15 years, has been more than five years in the making.  Nevertheless, as he suggested in June, the NLWP inspector has found the submitted plan to be legally unsound. The north London councils have failed to cooperate with their adjacent boroughs outside the capital, who receive a proportion of their waste. The councils must now withdraw the whole plan and start again, or try to  fix this problem in order to resubmit the existing version. Even if it gets fixed, the plan will inevitably be delayed by months, and we still believe that it’s fundamentally flawed in many ways besides this failure to cooperate.

Statement on London Borough of Enfield Invitation for Expressions of Interest

5th September 2012

Plans for the Palmers Greenery - a not-for-profit, volunteer led Community Café for Broomfield Park - moved a step closer to reality today as the London Borough of Enfield (LBE) issued an invitation for expressions of interest in the provision of a community facility in a disused park building......

Dear BHORA members

Your interest in and overwhelmingly positive response to our volunteer-led, not-for-profit Community Cafe project when we presented at your AGM was much appreciated. Since we met, we have been busy:

• We have secured £35,000 from the Enfield Residents Priority Fund to finance our start-up: Refurbishment, stock, volunteer training etc.