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ENFIELD DISPATCH No.35 THE BOROUGH’S FREE COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER AUG 2021 FEATURES Meet the people behind London’s only commercial vineyard P . 5 LOCAL PLAN Residents and businesses in Crews Hill share their views on Green Belt plans P . 10 SPORT Blind football wonderkid meets Gareth Southgate P . 19 A M E E Become a Mmember of Enfield M Dispatch and get O the paper delivered to B your door each month E C – find out more R E on Page 20 B Two murals were unveiled at Enfield Chase Station to mark 150 years of the Hertford Loop line. One depicts the original station building, demolished in 1984, while another shows the old windmill that stood on Windmill Hill until 1904. Michael Robinson-Taylor and sister Pauline unveiled the second mural (pictured) as descendants of the Robinson family who last owned the windmill. Both mosaics were enfielddispatch.co.uk made by artist Debbie Dean and commissioned by The Enfield Society, with funding from Great Northern. Credit The Enfield Society enfielddispatch@ Council pledges fly-tipping crackdown socialspider.com Reports of illegal dumping rise seven-fold since 2016 @EnfieldDispatch were 1,226 reports made, while Another demand from opposition “We are committed to making BY JAMES CRACKNELL in 2020/21, there were 8,719 – a groups is for the council to reinstate Enfield the cleanest borough in @EnfieldDispatch rise of more than 600%. On aver- weekly bin collections, but this is not London. We want residents to play eports of fly-tipping in age last year it means fly-tipping thought to be under consideration. their part by reporting all fly-tips the borough have risen reports were being made almost Cllr Jewell said: “I am passionate and giving us any information they /EnfieldDispatch seven-fold in just four every single hour. about keeping our streets clean and I have on the criminals who dump years, new data show, The cost of dealing with fly- cannot accept the levels of fly-tipping rubbish on our streets. Ras Enfield Council pledges to do tipping incidents has also risen and dumping currently being expe- “If we work together to dispose of more to tackle the problem. significantly. In 2016/17 the rienced – there is work to be done. our own rubbish responsibly, we can The council has come under council spent £694,000 clearing “Residents continually tell us continue to build an Enfield that increasing pressure to clamp down up dumped waste, but in 2020/21 that their main concern is the everyone is proud to call home. That on illegal fly-tipping incidents that this rose to £1.25million. condition of our streets and they is why we’re looking at scrapping have become a common sight in Last month Conservative group want us to do more about it. fees for bulky waste collections to Enfield. But while the pandemic leader Joanne Laban called for the “We’ve listened to what they’ve help everyone do the right thing.” has been blamed for exacerbating council to reinstate free bulky waste said and we’re going to find ways The council maintains that the problem nationwide, figures collections for residents. The new to improve the street cleaning ser- although fly-tipping rates have CHAMBERLAINS ESTATES obtained by the Dispatch via the cabinet member for environment, vice and make it more responsive. risen in Enfield, they still remain Freedom of Information Act reveal Rick Jewell, has since pledged to do “Despite the challenges of the comparable to other parts of Lon- 020 8366 3551 the problem locally has been wors- exactly that, while also ordering a pandemic we have remained pru- don. In 2019/20 – before both the chamberlainsestates.com ening for several years. review of street cleaning in Enfield dent in our spending over the last pandemic and the start of fort- Reports of fly-tipping in Enfield “having listened to residents’ views 18 months, enabling us to invest nightly bin collections – Enfield have risen every year for the on the increase in levels of dump- in tackling this resident priority, ranked below the London average The Dispatch is supported by Chamberlains Estates – turn to page 3 last four years. In 2016/17, there ing and fly-tipping”. which is a blight on Enfield. for fly-tipping incidents. 2 NEWS No 35 AUGUST 2021 ENFIELD DISPATCH Low-traffic trial extended Killer jailed drunk man who mur- with disabilities, claiming their Two ward councillors for dered a neighbour in a BY SIMON ALLIN, LOCAL ED. DEMOCRACY REPORTER rights had not been considered Bowes, Labour’s Yasemin Brett A random knife attack has and engagement with blue badge and Achilleas Georgiou, voiced been sentenced to more than 23 low-traffic neigh- holders had been a “tick-box exer- concerns about elements of the years in jail. o bourhood (LTN) trial cise”. A survey revealed more scheme, with Cllr Brett criticis- Abdi Osman, 43, fatally stabbed N .35 in the south of the than three quarters of those with ing the government’s short time- 26-year-old Nahid Ahmed outside borough will con- a disability thought the trial had line for rolling out the trial and a Forty Hill tower block. Osman Atinue after a bid to force a rethink had a negative impact on them. Cllr Georgiou saying he thought pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to AUG 2021 of the scheme failed. Cllr Barnes, who also chairs the there had been insufficient murder and possession of a knife Conservative councillors called council’s climate change task force, engagement with people living and was sentenced in July to 23.5 Enfield Dispatch is on Enfield Council to reconsider told the meeting he had asked cab- on the North Circular, which is years in jail. the borough's free the Bowes Area Quieter Neigh- inet for the trial to be extended to on the boundary of the scheme. The attack happened in the early community newspaper. bourhood scheme, claiming it had allow the authority to collect more Richard Eason said the council hours of Sunday, 13th September We publish monthly pushed traffic on to surrounding data about typical traffic patterns. would consider carrying out more outside Purcell House in Holbrook and distribute 10,000 roads and increased air pollution He said the trial had been accom- engagement with those dispropor- Close. Nahid was in his car talking free copies of each issue since it was installed a year ago. panied by a six-month consulta- tionately impacted. to his girlfriend when a neighbour But council officers and mem- tion period, and the council had Meanwhile, an anti-LTN cam- saw Osman kick Nahid’s BMW, Publisher bers of the Labour administration followed government guidelines paign group has threatened legal with a confrontation ensuing. David Floyd defended the trial and claimed on the scheme’s roll-out. action against the council because Later, Nahid’s girlfriend heard his Editor more data was needed to judge The deputy leader added that the it claimed the consultation on the car door opening and her boyfriend James Cracknell whether it was a success. It came council had carried out a special borough’s other LTN trial, in the wheezing. Nahid had been stabbed after the council cabinet’s deci- survey for people with disabilities Fox Lane area of Palmers Green, in the chest and was pronounced Designer sion to extend the LTN trial was and held focus groups with them was flawed. One Community dead by paramedics at 1.25am. Jonathan Duncan called in for debate at an over- to find out what issues they were accused the council of trying to Rushanara Ahmed, his mother, Local Democracy view and scrutiny committee experiencing and what could be mislead the public by not pub- said: “Nahid was a good person, Reporter by Tory councillors, forcing a done to help them. lishing a key document until two very well-liked and respected, Simon Allin debate on the issue. Under questioning from Tory months after the trial had begun. hard-working, devoted to family, Maria Alexandrou, shadow cab- committee member James Hock- The council confirmed it had caring and kind. I couldn’t have Head of Advertising inet member for climate change, ney, healthy streets programme received an objection letter from been prouder of the child he was, Klaudia Kiss told the meeting LTNs had director Richard Eason confirmed the group and that a full report or the adult he became.” Engagement Manager “forced traffic into other areas the council was not using air on the consultation, which Penny Dampier and divided the community in quality monitors to gauge the closed in July, would “provide order to create a few quiet roads”. trial’s impact on pollution levels. a response to any objections Sales Representative Charity grant She said there had been a lack Instead, it is collecting traffic data raised”. A decision is now due to Xavier Duchen of community engagement on and inputting it into a model to be made on whether to make the n Enfield charity that pro- Contributors the scheme and also raised con- get an indication of the LTN’s Fox Lane Quieter Neighbourhood vides support for people Liz Sorton, Nicole Brown, cerns over the impact on people impact on air quality. scheme permanent. A with learning difficulties Mary Tsenti, Ayten has been awarded a £38,000 grant. Guzel, Suzanne Kelly, One-to-One Enfield encour- Andrew Warshaw ages people to integrate and live Whitewebbs decision due independent lives through peer support and social activities. CONTACT landscape and wildflower mead- thought it would be here for future It was awarded £38,024 by People’s BY JAMES CRACKNELL Call 020 8367 2975 ows, informed by the layout of the generations – how wrong we were! Health Trust, using money raised Email EnfieldDispatch@ nfield Council is due original 19th Century parkland “This park was sold to the by The Health Lottery.