Wood Street Conservation Area Archives

Posted on 27 December 201920 January 2025 by Nick Jones

Wood Street’s eyesore is no more

Going, going gone – Barnet’s blot on the landscape

A massive pile of rubble, beams and planks was all that was left of Barnet’s blot of the landscape – the derelict nurses’ home for the former Victoria Maternity Hospital in Wood Street.

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Posted on 22 August 20194 February 2025 by Nick Jones — 5 Comments

Design of quality proposed for Whalebones – so why does the Barnet Society oppose it?

Masterplan of Whalebones development (Architects: Pollard Thomas Edwards)

A planning application (19/3949/FUL) has been submitted to build 152 new homes and a replacement artists’ and bee-keepers’ studio on the Whalebones site.

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Posted on 28 December 201820 January 2025 by Nick Jones — 4 Comments

Plans for houses and public parkland in Whalebones

Well Cottage, at the top of Wellhouse Lane, which is the home of Whalebones tenant farmer Peter Mason, would retain sufficient land for rearing geese and poultry. Originally two cottages, dating back to around 1650, it was the home of well keepers who supplied water for the horses of the carters and drovers who stopped off in Barnet when taking hay and forage into London or when leaving with loads of horse manure and ash.

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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Posted on 1 May 20144 February 2025 by Nick Jones

Swiss chalet cladding off but saga goes on

Barnet Council has promised that a heritage officer will carry out an inspection in Church Passage in the “very near future” in an attempt to resolve continuing disagreement over cladding on the frontage of retail premises in the heart of the High Barnet conservation area.

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Posted on 15 January 20144 February 2025 by Nick Jones — 6 Comments

Church Passage Swiss Chalet to go

A planning inspector has ordered that unauthorised timber cladding must be removed from the frontage of retail premises in the heart of the High Barnet conservation area.

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Posted on 22 November 20134 February 2025 by Nick Jones — 9 Comments

Church Passage cladding: An inspector decides

A planning inspector has now been appointed to consider the objections made by the Barnet Society and other local groups to the installation of unauthorised timber cladding above retail premises in Church Passage, in the heart of the High Barnet conservation area.

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Posted on 15 August 20134 February 2025 by Nick Jones — 3 Comments

Council enforcement notice on ‘Swiss Chalet’

Swiss chalet or a fine addition to drab frontage?

After a rising chorus of protest from local community and residential groups, Barnet Council has finally issued an enforcement notice requiring the removal of timber cladding to the frontage of a former cafe and shop in Church Passage, just off the High Street.

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