Two new hospitality ventures are hoping to boost evening trade in Barnet High Street – a cafe bar with a special line in cocktails and a pop-up bar offering locally brewed craft beers and real ale.
After months of negotiation and trial and error a site has finally been agreed for a small bronze statue commemorating High Barnet’s feline celebrity, Millie the Waitrose cat.
National Car Parks has refused to comment on speculation that its contract to operate the NCP car park at The Spires Shopping Centre in High Barnet is about to be relinquished or even terminated.
Theresa Villiers, MP for Chipping Barnet, has stepped in to support residents in a renewed attempt to stop the demolition of 33 Lyonsdown Road, New Barnet, a locally-listed Victorian villa which the Barnet Society and other heritage groups have been campaigning to save since 2017.
The Lord Nelson, tucked away off Wood Street, High Barnet, is the 2022 Runner Up Pub of the Year in the annual contest organised by the Enfield and Barnet Campaign for Real Ale.
Two stalwarts have stepped down after 20 years’ campaigning with the Barnet Society — High Street champion Gail Laser and long-standing committee member Andrew Hutchings.
After remaining empty and disused for the last four years, a buyer has finally been found for the abandoned car park that was once the home of Barnet Market — and what was for a brief time due to have become the site of a Premier Inn.
After 30 years in business the A1 Clay Shooting Ground just north of Arkley has closed — raising questions as to the future use of another large site in the Green Belt between Barnet and the M25 motorway.
After a two-week inquiry into the latest plans to redevelop the former gas works site in New Barnet, a planning inspector will have to decide whether developers Citystyle Fairview should be allowed to squeeze in 168 more flats than were originally agreed in 2017.
New Barnet’s Salvation Army Hall is about to be demolished a poignant reminder of the many local connections with the movement’s founder, General William Booth, who lived in Hadley Wood until his death in 1912.
Continue reading New Barnet to lose another link to the past when Salvation Army Hall is demolished
Converting the former Grasvenor Avenue Infant School to take pupils with special education needs will help meet the lack of places within the Borough of Barnet for children with learning difficulties.
Continue reading New lease of life for infant school which closed in July
Record temperatures and an unprecedented red alert heatwave warning are claimed to be further justification for opposition to a scheme to build high-rise blocks of flats on the former gas works site at New Barnet.
Record temperatures and an unprecedented red alert heatwave warning are claimed to be further justification for opposition to a scheme to build high-rise blocks of flats on the former gas works site at New Barnet.
For the first time in a decade Tudor Park Pavilion was brought back to life hosting a Picnic for the Pavilion for the residents of Barnet Vale…well almost! Supporters of the campaign to refurbish the dilapidated pavilion could still only look in from the outside at what used to be a much-loved focal point for the community.
Continue reading Abandoned Tudor Park pavilion a step nearer being repaired and re-opened
Barnet Council has intervened on planning and licensing grounds to ensure a full hearing of the views of local residents before a decision is made on whether to allow an adult gaming centre to open in Barnet High Street.
A concert by pupils at Queen Elizabeth’s Boys School was another first for the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival which is now in its second year.
A planning inspector has given the go ahead for Barnet House, the twelve-storey vacant office block in High Road, Whetstone, to be converted into 260 flats with affordable workspace on the ground floor.
Continue reading Developers win planning appeal to convert Barnet House tower block into flats
An artist’s impression illustrates how Green Belt fields off Mays Lane, Barnet, are to be transformed into London’s first purpose built equine therapy centre where challenged youngsters will be able to interact with specially trained horses.
Barnet parish church is to host the first concert of this year’s High Barnet Chamber Music Festival — and the two soloists on the opening night, French horn player Annemarie Federle and tenor Brenton Spiteri have been busy rehearsing.
Barnet Council, now under Labour control, is intent on building a new relationship with the borough’s residents to ensure improvements in key areas such as planning, public amenities, bus services and the protection of the Green Belt and open spaces.
London’s first purpose built equine therapy centre — where challenged youngsters interact with specially trained horses — is to be established at derelict stables in Mays Lane, Barnet.
Barnet Council has rejected plans for the installation of a 20-metre high 5G network telephone mast on the approach road to Barnet Hospital, close to the mini roundabout at the junction of Wellhouse Lane and Wood Street.
An application is being made under the Gambling Act to open a bingo hall on Barnet High Street in the historic building that was most recently a branch of the TSB bank and which was formerly the offices of the Barnet Press weekly newspaper.
Continue reading Bid to offer bingo games on Barnet High Street angers Town Team
Barnet Medieval Festival’s spectacular re-enactments, attracting ever-loyal audiences, are generating increased interest in the role played by the two Battles of St Albans, as well as the Battle of Barnet.
Displays by mounted knights in armour and men at arms were another first at the increasingly popular Barnet Medieval Festival, now in its fourth year.
Continue reading Plenty of action and lots to see at opening day of Barnet Medieval Festival
The Barnet Society is collecting photographs and stories that captured the fun and friendliness of the many street parties held over the four-day Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
A veteran High Barnet motorcycling enthusiast, 86-year-old Peter Biles — who bought his first motorbike just before the Coronation in 1953 — was one of the veterans taking pride of place in the pageant The Times of Our Lives on the final day of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations in Whitehall and The Mall.
With fine weather on bank holiday Friday, Platinum Jubilee street parties were the order of the day, and the party planners were delighted with the turn out.
Continue reading Platinum Jubilee street parties get celebrations off to a flying start
Objectors to a plan to install a 20-metre high 5G network phone mast on the main approach road to Barnet Hospital say it would have an overbearing impact on residents in nearby roads and perhaps become a potential health hazard.
Continue reading Plan for a 5G phone mast in High Barnet as high as the Angel of the North
With so few outlets available for small shopkeepers and with so little space for new businesses and shared working, Chipping Barnet Town Team has decided to take the initiative and open temporary accommodation for budding entrepreneurs in a prime location.
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