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For over 20 years, all 31 London Boroughs as well as the City of Westminster, have been invited to enter the Parade. Each borough will entertain the crowd with some form of performance based on the annual Parade theme which also demonstrates the diversity of London. This year, the Parade theme was Showtime.  Barnet Council’s entry was a group from the Susi Earnshaw Theatre School, supported by Incognito Theatre.

Patrick Cusack, 51, of Pentland Close, Golders Green, was jailed for two months after repeatedly ignoring action being taken by the council’s Planning Enforcement team requiring him to clear the front and back gardens of his semi-detached home. The land surrounding the house was left strewn with builder’s waste and materials, and even a van left parked in the driveway was used as a place to store further rubbish.

Kelly Communications Ltd was ordered to pay the fine, £4,398 in costs and £120 victim surcharge after pleading guilty to four offences of contravening Tree Preservation Orders (TPOs) during a hearing at Willesden Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 6 December. The prosecution was brought by Barnet Council’s Planning, Trees and Enforcement Team. In March this year workers were digging a service trench for telecommunications cables when they damaged the root networks of two mature Oak trees, a Thorn tree and a Chestnut tree in and around Field Mead, Mill Hill.

The multi-billion pound Brent Cross Cricklewood scheme will create a new town centre, incorporating 7,500 homes, 27,000 jobs, three re-built schools, redevelopment of Brent Cross shopping centre, new parks and community facilities, an additional Thameslink train station as well as major road and public transport improvements.

The signing will take place between Thursday 6 October until Wednesday 12 October from 10am-3pm, on weekdays only. The book will be in a private room on the ground floor of Hendon Town Hall. Mr Peres was the ninth President of Israel, as well as a Nobel peace prize laureate, and served from 2007 to 2014. Leader of Barnet Council, Councillor Richard Cornelius, said: “We know many of our residents will want to sign our Book of Condolences for Shimon Peres after his sad passing away on September 28.

The Entrepreneurial Barnet Competition, organised by Middlesex University, Barnet Council and Barnet and Southgate College, gives the chance for local entrepreneurs to showcase their ideas to win one of four prizes worth £500 each.  The competition runs from 18 January until 19 February with prize money provided by Hammerson, one of the developers of the Brent Cross regeneration scheme.

Volunteering Barnet – the organisation set up in partnership between Groundwork London and Barnet Council to provide a volunteering brokerage service for the borough - is proud to announce that they have officially been awarded the Volunteer Centre Quality Accreditation (VCQA).  The accreditation assures the public and others in the charity, faith and voluntary sector that the organisation is providing a high quality volunteering service, according to the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO)*. 

Having revolutionised retail when it opened 40 years ago, the proposed plans to transform the centre form the main element of Brent Cross London, ahead of submitting a detailed planning application. The scheme is part of a larger £4.5bn regeneration plan for Brent Cross and Cricklewood, for which Hammerson and Standard Life Investments already has outline planning consent, granted in 2010.

The Burnt Oak Opportunity Support Team (BOOST) and the National Careers Service will be promoting work and apprenticeship options at Brent Cross Shopping Centre this Friday. This will be one of the main events Barnet Council is hosting this week as it celebrates the achievements of apprentices, as part of National Apprenticeship Week. Apprenticeships are available for anyone over the age of 16. People who are already working can also use an apprenticeship to upskill, for example, when a worker wants to gain promotion to become a manager.

However, following consultation, the council will apply a three per cent social care precept to bills in 2018/19. This will be spent exclusively on helping to provide support and take care of elderly and vulnerable adult residents. Barnet has the largest population of any London borough and is home to a higher population of older people compared to the rest of London, many of whom require care. The precept will generate an additional £4.9m per year, adding £2.89 per month to Council Tax bills for a band D property.