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Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:33
Blot on landscape lives on
To the dismay of its owner, Barnet Council has refused planning permission for a semi-derelict shop in Union Street, High Barnet, to be demolished and replaced with either a two-bedroom house or two one-bedroom flats.
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Monday, 19 June 2017 14:41
Make-over for historic Union Street
Plans to replace a semi-derelict vacant shop that has blighted Union Street for many years will go a long way towards finishing off a make-over for one of High Barnet’s historic thoroughfares.
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Restoration & Rejuvenation
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Wednesday, 07 June 2017 14:59
Delay to High Street redevelopment
Barnet High Street’s historic Brake Shear House complex, which is boarded up ready for demolition, has gained a temporary reprieve, and former tenants of workshops and offices are being offered fresh short-term leases.
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High Street The Spires
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017 13:13
High Street - proposed improvements
CHIPPING BARNET HIGH STREET – PROPOSED PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS: BARNET COUNCIL PUBLIC CONSULTATION, 28 MARCH – 20 APRIL 2017
Comments by the Barnet Society, April 2017
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Tuesday, 18 April 2017 16:26
Brighter future for Barnet’s physic well
After years of neglect and decay, Historic England has commissioned a detailed survey of the work required to repair and conserve Barnet’s historic physic well, in Well Approach, just a short walk from Barnet Hospital.
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Wednesday, 05 April 2017 08:16
Playtime for “invisible” carers
A two-hour session of play and activities once a month at the Sense Touch Base, just off Barnet High Street, is a lifeline for children who are often isolated at home caring for sick or disabled parents.
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Friday, 24 March 2017 10:37
Graffiti artists’ head for heights
Graffiti daubed on walls and the sides of buildings in and around High Barnet has become an increasing eyesore in the opinion of residents who ask the Barnet Society why there has been no attempt in recent months to mount a clean-up.
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Wednesday, 15 March 2017 19:32
Library facing summer closure
Chipping Barnet library will operate on a partial self-service basis during April and May before closing again on Monday 5 June for extensive internal construction work over the summer months to convert some of the building into commercial office space.
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Thursday, 26 January 2017 18:28
Underhill super school rejected
Barnet Council’s planning committee has voted unanimously to reject plans to build a massive all-through academy school on the site of Barnet Football Club’s former stadium at Underhill.
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Friday, 16 December 2016 13:31
Barnet Museum’s future assured
After years of uncertainty about its future, Barnet Museum is finally being promised security of tenure – a 125-year lease at a peppercorn rent.
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Barnet History
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Tuesday, 06 December 2016 23:28
Outrage at library closure
Outraged Barnet book lovers staged a mass read-in outside the closed front doors of Chipping Barnet Library to demonstrate their dismay and anger at the downgrading of a much-loved community asset.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2016 17:12
Can planning objections save Chipping Barnet Library?
If residents are prepared to back a mass campaign of objection, the Barnet Society believes there might still be a chance to limit, if not prevent, the downgrading of Chipping Barnet Library.
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Tuesday, 22 November 2016 18:29
Chipping Barnet Library closure
Barnet Council is being urged by the Barnet Society to postpone the two-month temporary closure of Chipping Barnet Library planned to take effect as from Monday 5 December in order to allow time for further consultation on the building alterations and redundancies that have been proposed.
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Tuesday, 01 November 2016 09:48
Bats’ at risk in New Barnet
Bats, owls, wrens and hedgehogs are among the species that nearby residents fear might be disturbed or even lost because of the construction of a new, two-storey leisure centre in the Victoria Recreation Ground off Lawton Road, New Barnet.
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Thursday, 27 October 2016 12:47
Opposition to Ark Academy
The Barnet Society has joined other local organisations and groups – together with many nearby residents – in lodging an objection to the plans to build a school for 1,680 pupils on the site of the former Barnet Football Club stadium at Underhill.
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Tuesday, 06 September 2016 16:02
Residents revolt over super-size school
After facing a barrage of complaints and criticism over proposal to build a new school for almost 2,000 pupils on what was formerly the Barnet Football Club stadium, the Ark Academy network admitted its plans were “not yet a done deal”.
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Tuesday, 03 May 2016 10:21
Bench done. Now tackle the graffiti!
“The boys dun good” was the general consensus of passers-by as three High Barnet seniors spent 16 man hours giving the Church Passage bench a much-needed wash and brush-up.
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Friday, 22 April 2016 17:40
Community action spruces up Church Passage bench
Three volunteers spent the morning washing down and scrubbing clean the long, architecturally-designed teak bench that is beside the gardens in Church Passage, just off Barnet High Street.
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Monday, 11 April 2016 10:18
Environment centre red-scissor opening
Schools in and around Barnet are already queuing up for their pupils to visit the Byng Road nature reserve and its new eco-friendly environment centre after its official opening by leading benefactor Janet Hulme of the Hadley Trust.
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Wednesday, 28 October 2015 15:58
Barnet Society wins parking review
Barnet Council has finally agreed to review its parking charges along Barnet High Street following a campaign by the Barnet Society on behalf of local residents, shoppers and traders.
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