Poundland is about to open its new store in The Spires shopping centre — at 9am on Saturday 28 January — an event for some Barnet shoppers that will be up there with the opening of a branch of the fashion chain H&M in 2017.
A much-troubled plan to build flats on the former gas works site in New Barnet has joined The Spires shopping centre as one of those projects where developers might have no alternative but to respond to the views of local community groups if they are to have any chance of gaining planning approval.
A High Barnet centenarian who is often seen out and about on his four-wheel mobility scooter shopping in the High Street is still receiving congratulations weeks after celebrating his birthday.
Property company BYM, owners of The Spires, have supplied Barnet Council with more details of their plans to redevelop the shopping centre to include blocks of flats of up to six storeys in height.
Motorists who took a short cut across Monken Hadley Common to avoid road closure notices have turned much of the grass into a muddy morass and left deep tyre marks — even damaging the much loved cricket pitch.
Millie the Waitrose cat — this time in bronze — has resumed her role as High Barnet’s most popular feline character, checking out customers at The Spires shopping centre.
Barnet Choral Society has started rehearsals under its new musical director Rory McCleery — and his choice for their first concert of 2023 plays to the choir’s great tradition of performing baroque music.
Despite an ongoing planning dispute about building over 500 homes on the former gas works site in New Barnet, developers Citystyle Fairview are seeking the go ahead for the construction of two blocks of flats on land fronting onto Victoria Road.
Continue reading Redevelopment finally seems likely alongside vacant New Barnet gas works site
Recent monitoring of water quality has renewed concern about the risk of sewage pollution in Pymmes Brook — seen here on its way through Oak Hill Park, East Barnet.
BYM Capital, owners of The Spires shopping centre, are drawing up plans for a major redevelopment to rebuild much of the existing precinct to provide blocks of flats above shops and cafes and also to construct new homes on adjoining land.
A new book exploring the history of Queen Elizabeth’s School — or QE Boys as it is affectionately known — is to be published in March next year.
Squatters have taken over empty offices in Barnet High Street — just weeks after a group departed from a similar squat in a former restaurant.
Chipping Barnet’s foodbank is experiencing a surge in demand: the number of households dependent on food parcels has almost doubled since the summer and an appeal has gone out to Christmas shoppers to donate what they can.
A scheme which is being proposed by Barnet Homes could transform the top end of Moxon Street be creating a car-free mews with two rows of terraced houses to provide a total of 21 new homes.
An evening session for designing and making Christmas wreaths brought a festive spirit to a community pop-up event at the Chipping Work Shop in Barnet High Street.
Local authorities will have greater freedom about implementing government housing targets following a Conservative revolt in the House of Commons led by the Chipping Barnet MP Theresa Villiers.
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.
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