Displaying items by tag: Barnet Council
Saturday, 23 March 2019 13:37
Security to be withdrawn from some parks & gardens
Barnet Council’s latest cost-cutting proposal is to end the long-standing practice of locking up gates to parks, gardens and car parks at nightfall.
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Friday, 08 March 2019 16:18
Concerns re new academy school
Ark Pioneer Academy, High Barnet’s new secondary school opening in September, has started holding drop in sessions for potential parents and pupils – heightening the debate about its impact on other nearby schools.
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Saturday, 09 February 2019 08:49
Barnet Beyond Brexit
For our spring public forum, the Barnet Society has arranged for an expert panel to answer questions of local interest on key issues such as the future of education and training, prospects for local employment, plans for new housing and future safeguards for the Green Belt.
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Thursday, 10 January 2019 15:51
Barnet Councillors’ pledge to tackle rough sleepers and street drinkers
Chipping Barnet Residents Forum has been given an assurance that Barnet Council will take action to remove up to three homeless men who bed down each night in alcoves and under bay windows outside Chipping Barnet Library in Stapylton Road.
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Friday, 28 December 2018 16:48
Plans for houses and public parkland in Whalebones
A woodland walkway, a healing garden and children’s play area are among the latest proposals for inclusion in the fields and woods that make up the Whalebones estate in Wood Street, Barnet, where developers are proposing to build around 150 new homes.
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Saturday, 08 December 2018 18:37
Earthworks remodelling Barnet golf course
Earthworks remodelling Barnet golf course For some weeks past a constant stream of tipper lorries has been unloading top-soil and sub-soil at the northern end of the Old Fold Manor Golf Club, Hadley Green, where extensive landscaping of the golf course is about to start.
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Tuesday, 20 November 2018 19:48
Transforming playing field into multi-sports attraction
A major redevelopment of Barnet playing fields in Dollis Valley could include the provision of a skate board park, children’s play areas, an outdoor gym as well as a series of new football pitches and a new community centre with indoor sports facilities.
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Tuesday, 06 November 2018 12:43
Premier Inn approved: will it help town centre?
Plans for a 100-bed Premier Inn on the site of Barnet Market were approved by a clear majority at a meeting of Barnet Council’s planning committee despite the continued, forthright opposition of residents in the adjoining Chipping Close.
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Friday, 02 November 2018 16:41
Accolade for High Street campaigner
Gail Laser, founder of Love Barnet, has won national recognition for the decade she has spent working tirelessly to improve trading conditions in Barnet High Street.
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Monday, 08 October 2018 13:32
Care home to replace Barnet’s blot on the landscape
A planning application has now been submitted to Barnet Council for a large-scale private care home for the elderly on the Marie Foster site in the heart of the Wood Street conservation area.
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Saturday, 29 September 2018 13:18
Shopkeeper's victory in council tax row
Barnet Council has backed down from its decision to charge a High Street newsagent an extra £1,800 a year in council tax for having a free-to-use cash machine installed in the shop window.
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Wednesday, 26 September 2018 18:26
Town centre “rabbit hutch” rooms plan withdrawn
A highly-controversial plan to convert empty retail premises just off Barnet High Street into a house in multiple occupation with nine self-contained rooms has been withdrawn – at least for the moment.
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Monday, 17 September 2018 15:22
Premier Inn - Take Two
Premier Inns have submitted a new planning application. The design has been improved since its first scheme, rejected in July, and the Barnet Society is minded to support it.
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Tuesday, 04 September 2018 13:10
Hefty council tax bill for High Street cash machine
Offering High Barnet residents and shoppers a free-to-use cash machine is proving an expensive nightmare for the Paper Shop in the High Street.
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Monday, 27 August 2018 18:04
Shop closures and conversions changing town centre
High Barnet’s struggling High Street shopping centre is facing fresh challenges: another two national chains are pulling out just as plans are announced to convert empty retail premises on the corner with St Albans Road into a house in multiple occupation.
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Sunday, 19 August 2018 11:28
Premier Inn – market place confrontation
Residents of Chipping Close were out in force to express their continuing opposition to the construction of a 100-bed Premier Inn opposite their homes on the site of Barnet Market.
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Sunday, 17 June 2018 20:23
Medieval Festival treated “appallingly” by Barnet Council
Charging £3,000 to hang heraldic banners from 26 lamp standards in Barnet High Street was condemned as the latest example of the dysfunctional relationship between Barnet Council and its web of private contractors providing out-sourced services.
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Sunday, 27 May 2018 23:15
Barnet Market & Premier Inn - An opportunity slipping away
The Barnet Society supports the current planning applications for both a Premier Inn and relocation of the market to The Spires bandstand site – but only subject to several strict conditions. And we do so in the belief that a big opportunity could be lost.
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Tuesday, 22 May 2018 16:03
Wars of the Roses banners for Barnet High Street
If Barnet Council gives approval, 26 hand-painted heraldic banners are to be hung along Barnet High Street to promote the Barnet Medieval Festival – a weekend of medieval displays and re-enactments of scenes from the battles of St Albans (1461) and Barnet (1471) to be held at the Byng Road playing fields on Saturday and Sunday, June 9 and 10.
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Monday, 21 May 2018 14:29
Barnet’s royal wedding street parties
Old Fold View was one of several roads in and around High Barnet that was closed off to traffic so that residents could hold a street party to celebrate the Windsor wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
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