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The Council is currently responding to incidents of flooding across the borough following the recent heavy and persistent rainfall from Wednesday 2 November overnight and into the morning of Thursday 3 November 2022. Indications are that London experienced the equivalent of half a months’ worth of rainfall during this period.   The Council has mobilised its highways and street scene services to clear fallen debris, empty flooded gullies and aid the removal of water from carriageways

Community groups and teams from Barnet Council were joined by the Worshipful Mayor of Barnet, Cllr Alison Moore, on Thursday 3 November to officially open Barnet Memorial Woodland to the public.

During planned general utility upgrade works at the junction of the A5 and Station Road, Edgware, a void under the road was discovered. For safety reasons, the Southbound carriageway was shut after the junction – introducing a contraflow system on the Northbound carriageway to minimise disruption in the area.

Barnet Council has launched its Warm Spaces scheme and is appealing to local organisations and businesses that have free space to sign up to the borough-wide initiative and help people stay warm through winter. Libraries across the borough are already welcoming residents, and the scheme aims to create spaces people can use and visit wherever they are in the borough.

As part of the Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration programme, we are pleased to announce that Sheffield Hallam University will, in future, open its first satellite campus in Barnet.

Barnet has been recognised as a community that is committed to becoming ‘dementia-friendly’ by the Alzheimer’s Society, which will help over 5,000 residents living with dementia in the borough. A ‘Dementia Friendly Community’ is a place that creates an environment where people living with dementia will be confident that they can contribute to community life.

Council counter-fraud officers will once again be taking part in a week of action during International Fraud Awareness Week (13 - 19 November). Throughout the week, officers from the council’s Corporate Anti-Fraud Team (CAFT), and other council officers, will be carrying out a range of activities to raise awareness around the impact of fraud and other crime, what to look out for, and how to report it.

Barnet Council has committed to giving residents and community groups a greater say in designing its adult social care services, after councillors voted last night (14 November) for the Engagement & Co-Production Strategy and Charter for Adult Social Care.

The Leader of Barnet Council, Cllr Barry Rawlings, has called on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to use the Chancellor’s mini-budget tomorrow (17 November) to ‘save our services’ by addressing the cost of living crisis and tackle the £700m funding gap facing London’s councils. The full letter from Barnet Council Leader, Cllr Barry Rawlings: Dear Prime Minister,

Barnet will begin building 67 new council homes for rent in spring 2023 following a Housing and Growth committee meeting at Hendon Town Hall last night (16 November). The new homes will be built in Broadfields Estate in Edgware, Coppetts Rd in Muswell Hill and The Grange in East Finchley and will be set at the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) Affordable Rent levels.