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Barnet Council has extended the Barnet Construction Supply Chain Support Programme for another year, funded through the Government's UK Shared Prosperity Fund.  Since its launch in 2022, the programme has helped retain nearly £10m in the local economy by supporting Barnet-based businesses to win work from developers operating in the borough, as well as from the council and Barnet Homes. 

Barnet Council launched London’s first 3x3 basketball court yesterday, Sunday 8 June, with an event at Barnet Playing Fields, Underhill. The court’s major upgrade was created in collaboration with the UK’s leading 3x3 basketball organisation, RISE 3x3, with new artwork designed by North London artist Darren John and his team at Absolutely Studio.

Barnet Council’s Trading Standards officers seized nearly £50,000 worth of illicit cigarettes, rolling tobacco, vapes and shisha during a single day’s worth of shop raids. The team targeted seven stores, with a variety of ‘hides’ for their illicit produce – including one where a sophisticated hydraulic lift had been installed beneath the flooring. The device, operated by small remote control, contained a series of shelves, packed full of illicit cigarettes.

Two neighbouring authorities in north London are using their ‘collective voice’ to call for urgent reform of the way councils are funded. Leaders of Haringey and Barnet have today (11 June 2025) published a letter to the Chancellor and Deputy Prime Minister ahead of the spending review to make the case for fairer funding after revealing they receive 15 per cent less per resident than the England average.

A landlord has been sentenced to 26 weeks suspended imprisonment and ordered to pay £20,000, after a judge found him guilty of harassing a tenant and leaving her ‘homeless’ after unlawfully evicting her. Qamil Cama, a building company owner from Brent, who was illegally renting out his property on Crescent Road, Finchley, was also found to be in breach of a planning enforcement notice issued by Barnet Council.

More than 1,000 Barnet residents have signed up for the council’s affordable tennis membership scheme, as part of a major transformation of the borough’s tennis facilities that has seen court bookings surge to over 60,000 annually. The success follows a £1.3 million investment – £700,000 from the Lawn Tennis Association and £600,000 match funding from Barnet Council – to refurbish 41 courts across 21 parks to a high standard.

The London Borough of Barnet has scored well on a new interactive map, showing how councils across England treat military compensation when administering means-tested benefits.

Barnet Council is sharing practical steps we can all take to breathe cleaner air and lead healthier lives ahead of this year’s Clean Air Day, the UK’s largest air pollution awareness campaign, on Thursday 19 June. As one of London’s largest boroughs – with a gigantic road network including major thoroughfares like the M1, A1, A406 and A41 – cars alone produce 431 tonnes of toxic emissions per year in Barnet.

The Met Office have issued a yellow heat-health alert for London from today until Sunday 22 June at 6pm, with temperatures expected to go over 30 degrees. What can we do to stay safe and well?

Barnet is proud of its status as a Borough of Sanctuary – awarded in 2024 – and to our heritage as a place where people from all over the world have been welcomed and been able to thrive over many decades. We were able to celebrate some of our newest arrivals at the Refugee Week events that ran throughout the last week.