Readers' letters - Enfield Independent

No barriers for pollution

10:46am Friday 21st October 2011

On Friday, October 7, the Enfield Independent’s sister paper, the Haringey Independent, ran a story about house sales that should send a chill down the back of everybody who lives within a couple of miles of Pinkham Way. A couple planning to move to Berkshire have lost their buyer, who cited the proposed waste plant at Pinkham Way as the reason for withdrawing.

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Future does not look good

10:44am Friday 21st October 2011

I had a pain in my eye over the weekend and as there is an eye problem in my family I decided I should get it checked.

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A cause for concern

10:16am Friday 21st October 2011

How worried should us Enfield residents be?

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Health problems will get worse

10:12am Friday 21st October 2011

I was somewhat baffled by Andrew Lansley’s statement that he agreed with the Independent Reconfiguration Panel’s recommendations that appropriate primary care services should be in place and working before changes are made to services at Chase Farm, along with other actions that were required.

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The decision to sell was hard

9:59am Friday 21st October 2011

In response to Ms Bishop-Leggetts letter ‘Car Park Will Affect Many.’, Opinion, October 5. Enfield Council does not undertake selling its assets lightly and it is recognised that this car park is used, albeit only at weekends and only by users of the sports ground.

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Coffee effort raises silver

10:55am Friday 14th October 2011

Further to the report ‘MP puts the kettle on for charity’ (Enfield Independent, October 5), in another part of Edmonton the Silver Threads Over 50s Club was organizing a similar event.

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Travel plans are needed

10:53am Friday 14th October 2011

My first thought when I heard of the storm developing about plans to build accommodation on the Barrowell Green car park was “So what?”. As a society we really have to get out of the habit of getting into our cars as naturally as we slip on a pair of shoes. We are an overweight, under-exercised society living in a congested city with traffic-blighted communities and health-destroying poor air quality in many places.

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Welcome may not be warm

10:47am Friday 14th October 2011

What an insult for Mr Lansley, Secretary of State for Health to show up in Enfield to “open” the new build at the North Middlesex Hospital, having just wielded the axe over Chase Farm.

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Promise not been kept

10:45am Friday 14th October 2011

Having come back from Chase Farm Hospital Children’s A&E ward (October 6), following my baby daughter’s brief spell of being unwell, I can say that I am very worried by the decision of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to close Chase Farm’s maternity (where, incidentally, my daughter was born in June) and A&E department.

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Applications require scrutiny

10:43am Friday 14th October 2011

Having read your coverage of the bowls club application (‘Bowls club is safe for now’, Enfield Independent, October 5) I was moved to write.

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