Displaying items by tag: Barnet Council
Saturday, 07 December 2019 21:24
High Barnet Station - our response to the revised proposals
Plans for the station land have been scaled back, as Nick Jones reported on 7 November. But unless more radical improvements are made, the Barnet Society will oppose them.
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Tuesday, 12 November 2019 16:23
Order to curb street drinkers in High Barnet
A ban on the anti-social drinking of alcohol in Barnet High Street and other public spaces around the town centre took effect at the beginning of November.
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Thursday, 07 November 2019 19:36
Scaled back plans for Barnet station development
Mature trees are to be kept and the multi-storey blocks of flats to be built around High Barnet tube station have been reduced in height, but there is still to be a drastic reduction in the number of car parking spaces.
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Wednesday, 30 October 2019 11:40
Halt of High Street clutter
Applications to install another three super-size phone boxes with illuminated advertising panels in Barnet High Street have been turned down by Barnet Council on the grounds they would be detrimental to the character of the town centre and a potential danger to pedestrians and road users.
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Tuesday, 22 October 2019 17:03
Charges planned for green garden waste bins
Barnet Council is asking for the views of residents on plans to introduce an annual charge for the fortnightly collection of household garden waste.
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Tuesday, 22 October 2019 16:49
Two blocks of flats abandoned and instead trees to be preserved
Transport for London and developers Taylor Wimpey have reduced significantly their original plans to redevelop land in and around High Barnet station with five-storey blocks of flats.
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Sunday, 20 October 2019 17:22
Petition to fight cuts to Barnet nursery schools
Parents at three nursery schools in the Barnet Early Years Alliance have joined a campaign to try to get secure and adequate funding in the face of further cuts being imposed as a result of pressure on Barnet Council to reduce spending on schools.
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Friday, 11 October 2019 15:33
Residents’ anger over loss of pedestrian walkway
Barnet Council is investigating complaints by local residents that the newly opened Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice has extended its car park to include a pedestrian grass verge along the road leading to the Byng Road environment centre, playing fields and allotments.
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Monday, 09 September 2019 20:04
New centre for swimming and keep fit
New Barnet’s new leisure centre and library – complete with a 25 metre six-lane swimming pool and a state-of-the-art gym – was opened by the Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Caroline Stock
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Wednesday, 04 September 2019 19:23
School farm at Totteridge Academy
A school and community farm in a six-acre field next to Totteridge Academy is a step closer to being established after the success of a fund-raising appeal.
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Sunday, 14 July 2019 08:52
Proposed Playing Fields Hubs are serious threat to green belt
The Council’s proposed master plan for Barnet and King George V Playing Fields, and especially its building on Barnet Playing Fields, would be a gross intrusion into the Green Belt.
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Saturday, 06 July 2019 11:04
Stop Barnet Council From Gagging Residents
The Barnet Society invites you to sign the Change.org petition below. Although the subject may seem outside our normal area of interest, it is important that we should be able to voice our concerns fully to the Council when necessary.
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Thursday, 04 July 2019 16:31
Kick starting High Barnet’s budding entrepreneurs
Business advice, digital training, even possible mentoring, were all on offer at the first Barnet Business Expo which attracted a wide range of potential entrepreneurs anxious for guidance on how to start up on their own.
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Thursday, 20 June 2019 11:58
Residents oppose tube station flats
Well over 100 residents attended a meeting at St Mark’s Church to launch a campaign to oppose Transport for London’s plans to build up to seven blocks of flats providing 450 new homes on land around High Barnet tube station.
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Thursday, 13 June 2019 17:08
New housing planned for High Barnet tube station
Transport for London has commissioned plans for the construction of over 450 new homes on land around High Barnet underground station.
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Monday, 03 June 2019 19:40
High density housing for High Barnet station?
According to a circular being distributed around Chipping Barnet, proposals are being developed to ‘improve’ the area around High Barnet station. These will include new public space and new homes, including affordable homes.
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Wednesday, 10 April 2019 10:25
Months more traffic disruption at Monken Hadley
Thames Water are warning that it will probably be the end of July before there is a final end to the roadworks that have led to road closures and restrictions on traffic passing through the historic village of Monken Hadley.
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Friday, 05 April 2019 10:43
Granite sculpture divides opinion
An alcove in front of Chipping Barnet library has been chosen as the potential site of a large granite sculpture, depicting a family of four, by Finchley sculptor Drew Edwards.
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Thursday, 04 April 2019 15:17
When I Grow Up idea wins business award
A business plan for opening a combined space for a children’s play area and community activities in Barnet High Street has won this year’s Entrepreneurial Barnet Competition.
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Saturday, 23 March 2019 13:52
Anti-litter spring clean-up
Plans for a spring clean-up of litter has attracted hundreds of promises of support after mother-of-three Nanna Blomquist launched a Green Beings High Barnet community organisation to campaign for greater environmental awareness.
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