Barry Rawlings, Labour leader of Barnet Council, is increasingly hopeful of a breakthrough in the campaign to the get the restoration of the 84-bus service between Barnet and Potters Bar.
Despite a cold, grey day the Mayor of Barnet Councillor Alison Moore got the annual Barnet Christmas Fayre off to a flying start by cutting the ribbon in the middle of the High Street.
Continue reading Barnet’s Christmas Fayre “bigger and better” than ever says Mayor of Barnet
Two vacant retail unts in The Spires, Barnet, are to be taken over as the site for one of the revamped Poundland stores which are being opened in shopping malls and town centres across the country.
Continue reading New Year opening for new Poundland store in The Spires shopping centre, Barnet
Four key roads serving High Barnet — which are just within the borough boundary — have been excluded from the new vehicle emissions zone for the whole of Greater London.
A children’s competition which is being organised with the help of shops along the High Street is part of the promotional build-up for this year’s Barnet Christmas Fayre on Sunday 4 December.
Householders in roads in Mill Hill, Arkley, High Barnet, and Hadley Wood are being offered a free connection if they sign up to a Swedish company which is installing a new fibre broadband service.
Planning approval has been refused for opening an adult gaming centre in the former TSB bank building on Barnet High Street.
A one-woman road safety campaign to persuade Barnet Council to consider introducing 20 mph speed limits on all residential roads in the borough was going nowhere until the issue was raised at a Living Streets event organised by the Barnet Society.
With public houses said to be closing at the rate of one a day across the country, licensed premises along Barnet High Street are doing what they can to buck the trend, each with a distinctive offer to potential customers.
As more of Barnet Council’s services are withdrawn from outsourcing contractors Capita, New Barnet community activist John Dix feels increasingly vindicated that his “sniff test” was correct: that the Capita deal was a costly mistake for the council taxpayers of Barnet.
An application to build 13 blocks of flats on the former gas works site in New Barnet has ended in another embarrassing defeat.
Theresa Villiers blames government house building targets for putting pressure on local councils to accept “entirely inappropriate” high-rise developments in suburban neighbourhoods like Barnet.
Squatters who have taken over a former restaurant in Barnet High Street might soon be having to contend with a new owner of the property. The three-storey building is in the process of being sold with a guide price of £875,000.
A fourteen-year dispute about redeveloping the former gas works site in New Barnet is about to kick off again in the High Court when housebuilders Citystyle Fairview will try to overturn the decision of a planning inspector.
There has been widespread support from within the film and television industry for a planning application to almost double the size of the Sky Studios Elstree complex which is currently nearing completion at Borehamwood.
A bingo premises licence has been approved for a former bank building in Barnet — but the key decision has yet to be taken on whether Barnet Council will give planning permission for an adult gaming centre in the High Street.
Clearing years of accumulated rubbish and litter from derelict farmland off Mays Lane, Barnet, is another step towards establishing a new equine therapy centre for troubled youngsters.
Britannia Parking has taken over from NCP as the operator of the multi-storey car park at The Spires shopping centre in High Barnet.
After violent incidents on two successive Saturday afternoons — an imitation firearm was brandished in the High Street and a stabbing in the nearby recreation ground — there could hardly have been a more opportune moment for some reassuring words from High Barnet’s Safer Neighbourhood Team.
A crowdfunding campaign has been started to help meet extra expenditure involved in plans to restore Hadley Green’s pink marble drinking fountain which has been out of order for the last 50 years.
Barnet’s former town hall, which is now the North London Coroner’s Court, has been a backdrop for television news reports and press photographs that have gone round the world.
Julian Stewart, the longest serving independent trader in Barnet High Street, is about to retire after 43 years in business.
Barnet Environment Centre is celebrating the official opening of its newly installed fully accessible paths around the perimeter of its seven-and-a-half-acre nature reserve off Byng Road.
After lying empty and unused for the last four years, the former site of Barnet Market has been purchased by BYM Capital, the property investment company which owns The Spires, the adjoining shopping centre.
Honey bees in the Barnet locality are among the many beneficiaries of the numerous parks, open spaces and the fields and woods in the Green Belt land that encircles much of the town.
Volunteers picking fruit for foodbanks were delighted on a return visit to the gardens of three houses in Sebright Road, Barnet, to find an extra fine crop of apples — all thanks to the way the trees had been pruned earlier in the year.
Continue reading Apple tree pruning in Sebright Road produces bumper crop for Barnet food banks
A book of condolence for the death of Queen Elizabeth II has been opened at Barnet Parish Church and will be available for signing until the state funeral on Monday 19 September.
Continue reading An invitation to remember and celebrate the life of Queen Elizabeth II
Having a wash down after a rugby match in Barnet can be quite a spectacle to behold. Mud-splattered players are still having to jump into one of two huge communal baths inside their dilapidated clubhouse at the Byng Road playing fields.
There could hardly have been a more poignant moment at Queen Elizabeth’s Girls’ School, Barnet. Within less than half an hour of the official announcement of the Queen’s death, headteacher Violet Walker had to preside at the annual prize giving at a school which had an especially close association with her reign.
Ponies and traps with their owners and admirers assembled on Hadley Green in an attempt to maintain the spirit of the historic Barnet Horse Fair which by tradition is held early in September but which is without a regular site.
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Council services will be running on a revised schedule over Christmas and New Year.
This includes: recycling and refuse bin collection days, library and leisure centre opening dates and hours, and our customer contact centre.
Find out more: https://www.barnet.gov.uk/news/council-services-over-christmas-and-new-year-1
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