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When designing and building property, providing adequate recycling and waste facilities is key to increasing recycling rates and ensuring the correct recycling and waste capacity is provided. It is council policy for communal bins to be at equal capacity for refuse and recycling.

This Dementia Needs Assessment aims to inform commissioning intentions by describing the local population in terms of dementia prevalence, diagnosis, risk factors and access to services. Information from a variety of sources, both local and national, has been analysed and presented to create a clear picture of dementia in the borough.

The SEN Team includes caseworkers and managers to process applications for an Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessment, produce and monitor EHC Plans through Annual reviews, and ensure that the Local authority is meeting its statutory duties and responsibilities as set out in the Children and Families Act (2014) in relation to the identification of pupils with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities, and appropriate provision to meet need.

There are two coats of arms representing Barnet. Barnet Urban District and East Barnet Valley Urban District (designed by Mr A. E. Kelsey and granted in September 1955). Both have elements which represent the Battle of Barnet.

Combatting Drugs Partnership Board The national drug strategy, ‘From Harm to Hope’ was published in December 2021. It sets out the government’s 10-year plan to tackle harm caused by illegal drug use and related crime. In keeping with prior drug strategies, From Harm to Hope sets out three strategic priorities:

Orange Hill Orange Hill Road is named after a house which was built around 1818 and which stood on Abbots Road. The house was rebuilt in 1912 and became the home of the famous aviator Claude Grahame-White, before becoming a Roman Catholic School, St. Roses Convent (Orange Hill House), in 1930. The land directly to the east of Orange Hill Road, including parts of Watling Park, was called Shevesfield, a series of what were called common fields.

The Old Bull and Bush was open in the 1720s. By 1762 North End had 17 houses, 3 cottages, as well as 2 inns.  Prime Minister William Pitt the elder (c1766) lived at Pitt House (demolished 1952). Hope Cottage was the home of a painter called John Linnell (1820s) where he was visited by Blake and Morland. The house was the childhood home of Wilkie Collins, the novelist.