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A local businessman from Hendon has been ordered to pay £25,835, after pleading guilty to operating a used car yard, which was dubbed ‘unlawful’ and a ‘nuisance’ by residents. 

Barnet Council is inviting residents to host a street party to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. VE Day commemorates the end of World War II in Europe on 8 May 1945, and celebrations will be taking place across the country from 8 to 11 May 2025.

Faster and more reliable broadband is being installed throughout Barnet that will make the borough’s network among the speediest of any in Europe. Around 8,000 households managed by Barnet Council’s social housing provider Barnet Homes will be included in the installation, which will also cover many other households in the borough. The roll-out is part of Openreach’s £15billion commercial investment in upgrading the UK’s telecommunications network.

Barnet Council has been given a grant of more than £300,000 from the government to tackle the housing crisis and prevent homelessness and rough sleeping in the borough. The cash will help relieve pressure on the authority’s budget as it faces a perfect storm of lower revenue, higher costs and rising demand for services like temporary accommodation.

Schools in Barnet have achieved outstanding results in the 2023 – 2024 academic year, with many schools achieving well above the national averages. Schools across the early years provision (Birth to Five years old), all the way through to key stage (KS) 5 (16 – 18 years old), have performed significantly well, with achievement scores placing Barnet above national averages and much higher than in previous years.

Four businesses – based in Burnt Oak and Mill Hill – have been handed a total of 68 fixed penalty notices, totalling £18,480, for multiple fly tipping offences – breaching their duties to responsibly dispose of trade waste under the Environmental Protection Act.

Barnet Council, in partnership with environmental charity Earthwatch Europe and local tech firm Pure Data Centres, yesterday (March 26) brought together hundreds of volunteers to plant 1,800 trees, creating three new ‘Tiny Forests’ in Mutton Brook, East Finchley.

Barnet Council’s Cabinet (5 February) approved a £16.9 million investment for 2025/26, as part of the £97 million package announced in 2024 for improving the boroughs roads and pavements over the next few years. This year’s investment of £16.9 million includes:

Eighteen months into the borough’s ‘Clear, Hold, Build’ initiative to tackle organised crime and anti-social behaviour on Grahame Park Estate, Deputy Mayor of London for Crime and Police, Kaya Comer-Schwartz, has visited Grahame Park in Colindale to see the impressive progress that has been made.

A further £8million will be spent on road maintenance over the next two years to help deal with potholes and the maintenance of highways, as Cllrs voted it through at Barnet Council’s Cabinet meeting last night, 18 July 2023. The new investment is in response to the 2022/23 winter period when the number of potholes reported jumped almost 95% to 3699 compared to the previous winter period which saw 1896 reported for repair.