- Written by Nick Jones
A go ahead has finally been given by the office of the Mayor of London to the redevelopment of farmland on either side of a lane leading to the privately-owned Whalebones house in Wood Street, Barnet.
- Written by Nick Jones
Imaginatively dressed scarecrows sitting and standing among the pews added colour and a sense of fun to a weekend of events at St Mark's Church, Barnet Vale, to celebrate harvest festival.
- Written by Nick Jones
After a decade of discussion and debate about building houses and flats on 14 acres of fields and woods at Whalebones, in Wood Street, Barnet, a final decision is about to be made by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, along with his planning advisers.
- Written by Nick Jones
A fund-raising appeal has been launched to see if there is sufficient support for a campaign to restore to working order a waterfall and pond in the centre of Highlands Gardens, a small but much-loved public park tucked away in New Barnet at the corner of Leicester Road and Abbotts Road.
- Written by Nick Jones
Bar staff at the appropriately named Builders Arms in New Barnet are having to endure what they say is a living nightmare -- the pub is now surrounded by a building site which is preventing access for daytime customers.
- Written by Nick Jones
With the loss of a central clearing point to support Barnet's foodbanks, organisers say there is added urgency behind the need for a day-long event in November to consider how to strengthen the distribution of supplies to needy families.
