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Barnet Council opens £200k playpark and £75k outdoor gym

Barnet Council has officially opened a £200,000 play area in Totteridge’s Brook Farm Open Space, and a £75,000 state-of-the-art outdoor gym in Victoria Recreation Ground in New Barnet.

Shake Up Your Summer!

Barnet Council urges Government to deliver on its promise to fund nurseries

Mayor awards young Barnet resident after she raised hundreds swimming for a local charity

Young Barnet residents win award for film on impacts on mental health from social media

Council’s licensing scheme renewed to improve property standards

Barnet Council is pushing ahead with plans to reintroduce a Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) licensing scheme, which will help improve property standards.

Barnet Council passes motion to fund local organisations and communities ahead of Black History Month

Design contest launched for council’s £18.8million park transformation

Barnet Council and the Landscape Institute have launched a design contest to support the development of plans for an £18.8million investment in West Hendon Playing Fields.

Barnet Council starts work on 217 new affordable homes

Barnet Council Leader, Cllr Barry Rawlings, led a ground-breaking ceremony for 217 new affordable homes including 75 extra care homes in Hendon last week, Tuesday 12 July.

Barnet Councillors vote to end the ‘easy-council’ mass-outsourcing of services by 2026