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The manor house, now the Sternberg Centre, was built in 1723 by the Allens. Bibbesworth, Finchley's original manor house (c1253), was destroyed by fire in the 15th and 16th centuries. Of the original building only a ditch, possibly a moat, remains.

The Edgware Road was originally a Roman road, which the Saxons called Watling Street. It may be that Burnt Oak was the location of a small settlement known to have been on the Edgware Road called Sulloniacis. In 1971 an excavation of Roman rubbish pits in the garden of a house in Thirlby Road found coins dating from the 3rd and 4th centuries. Unfortunately as the area was completely built over during the 1920s and 1930s it is unlikely that we will learn much more.

Delivering for Barnet will see a huge investment in improving homes and neighbourhoods, town centres, infrastructure and commun

The items that are collected together in your recycling bins are taken to a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). The different materials are separated both by hand and through mechanical processes. They are then transported to different re-processors both in the UK and abroad to be made into new materials such as newspapers, plastic packaging and cans.

The Chipping Barnet Town Centre Strategy goes beyond the adopted Spires Planning Framework  in focusing on the wider issues facing the town centre including:

Reusable nappies If you are a parent living in the London Borough of Barnet with children who are less than 18 months old, or are a parent-to-be, you can save money and help the environment by applying for a free reusable nappy voucher worth £70 through Real Nappies for London.

We have surveyed how people drive in Barnet, allowing us to identify  traffic hotspots. As a result, we will be monitoring them with CCTV to help improve safety, keep traffic moving and reduce air pollution on the borough’s roads. Here are three places in Barnet we will be monitoring for driving offences: Zigzags at Deansbrook Infants School

You may be able to claim benefits to help you if you if you are looking after a child with special support needs, including:

Partnership libraries are part of Barnet Council’s recently announced plans to reshape the library service that will, amongst other things, keep all 14 libraries open, while delivering the savings required by the Council. Out of these 14 libraries, four will be community managed as part of the overall library network.

Tragically, people sometimes die as a result of domestic abuse. When this happens, the law says that professionals involved in the case must conduct a multi-agency review of what happened so that we can identify what needs to be changed to reduce the risk of it happening again in the future.