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Members of the council’s licensing sub-committee considered evidence from police and the council’s trading standards team before determining an outcome for the ‘Crazy Corner Shop’, in High Road, East Finchley. At a hearing on 30 August, committee members heard that the shop had been the subject of three separate test purchasing operations organised by police and trading standards officers, in response to information provided by the public. Each time, it had failed.

M Dream Property, of 29 Finchley Lane, was prosecuted after complaints about noise, overcrowding and anti-social behaviour at the property on the A41, Watford Way, Hendon. Legal action was launched against the firm by the Environmental Health team at Re, the joint venture between Capita and Barnet Council.

Date and time Venue Thursday 20 September, 11am-5pm Friends in Need Community Centre, East Barnet Baptist Church, Crescent Road, East Barnet, EN4 8PS Friday 21 September,

The result of yesterday’s by-election in Golders Green ward has been declared at Barnet Council Headquarters, in Colindale. The seat was won by Conservative Party Candidate, Peter John Louis Zinkin and the turnout was 27.2 per cent. This means the political composition of the Council is now 40 Labour, 22 Conservative and one independent.

A total of 3,071* households in Barnet made use of the council’s free Community Skips service through the first three months since it was launched in November 2022. The service, which is managed by Barnet Council’s Street Scene team, allows households in the borough to dispose of up to three large items at no charge, and is available to each household in the borough once every three months.

Barnet councillors unanimously passed a motion to work towards becoming an accredited Borough of Sanctuary at the last full council meeting (January 24). In recent years, the council has helped support the resettlement of 50 individuals through the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme and hosted almost 1,000 Ukrainian refugees through Barnet’s Homes for Ukraine scheme.

Barnet-based community groups have been awarded grants from the £240,000 Community Innovation Fund (CIF), to help support and fund projects that tackle the cost-of-living crisis and its impact on residents’ health. Following the success of the first two rounds, the Fund’s third round opened for innovative local projects that would particularly benefit communities with poorer health outcomes.

Councillors voted to pass the council’s 'Our Plan for Barnet' 2023-2026 and vision for the future at the full council meeting at Hendon Town Hall last night (28 Feb). The council now has the mandate to transform how it will tackle issues that affect residents and community groups by giving them a say and more power to get involved. This will include fighting inequality and poverty, through to establishing Barnet as a ‘borough of fun’.

Every Barnet parent who applied on time for a secondary school place for their child has received an offer of a place. This is the fourth year in a row that this has been achieved. This year, the council received 7,864 on time applications. 4,406 were from Barnet residents, and 3,458 were from residents in other boroughs.

Barnet Council has launched a new awards scheme to celebrate the borough’s inspirational women and girls of the past, present and future on International Women’s Day (IWD) yesterday (Wednesday 8 March). The ‘InspirationAll awards’ which were launched at a special event at StoneX stadium will annually recognise the inspiring work and accomplishments of women and girls in Barnet.