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Previous projects that we have led on include making improvements to the Barnet Church Garden area and removal of excessive street furniture (with funds from the Mayor of London’s Olympic Fund). We have played a role in the creation of a number of pop-up shops in and just off the High Street. The collaboration between Love Barnet, Barnet College, the Town Team and other volunteers produced a retail unit that continues to succeed. We also played a role in the proposals for pavement build-out as a part of the development of the centre as a pedestrian-friendly area.

Members' Clubs such as working men's clubs and social clubs need a club premises certificate if they want to use the club premises for activities like the supply/sale of alcohol and regulated entertainment for members and their bona fide guests. This is under the Licensing Act 2003. Club premises certificate You may need a club premises certificate if you provide one or more of the following licensable activities:

February 2020 You can download a detailed construction schedule for the next three months below:

Hendon became a municipal borough with its own mayor in 1932 and included Mill Hill, Burnt Oak and Edgware. This allowed the borough to have its own 'armorial bearings', or coat of arms. The coat of arms has various elements that represent Hendon. The two mythical animals are called supporters. The Griffin on the left-hand side represents the Powis family, who were lords of Hendon Manor.

Nether Street was recognised by the mid-14th century as an old street, sometimes called 'Lower Street' in later periods. Essentially an access road to properties and land, the most important of which were Moss Hall (see North Finchley) and Brent Lodge.

Local factory owners Everett and Edgecumbe experimented at Colindale with a plane, nicknamed the Grasshopper, between 1908 and 1910. Sadly the plane never got airborne. In 1910 the Daily Mail newspaper staged a flying race to Manchester. Louis Paulhan, a Frenchman, flew from Colindale and succeeded in winning the competition. It was the first flight from Hendon.

At the very north western corner of the London Borough of Barnet north of Edgware on the A5 is Brockley Hill. 'Brock' is an old word for badger, and ley was used to describe an opening in the woods. Brockley Hill is well known as the site of a Roman settlement