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It is a criminal offence to carry out work to protected trees without the necessary consent. Find out if trees are protected and how to apply to carry out work to them.

If you are privately renting and think your home is overcrowded you can report it to us. We may be able to act following an investigation. Barnet homes residents can report overcrowding on the Barnet homes website. How to report overcrowding You’ll need to tell us:

Food labels enable the consumer to make an informed choice when choosing their foods. The label cannot be inaccurate, misleading or make false claims. All food businesses must comply with the food labelling laws, which are enforced in Barnet by the Food Safety and Standards team. If you have concerns or queries about products sold in Barnet please contact us.

Festive Lights The council provides festive lights in main town centres but unfortunately does not have the resources to cover all of Barnet’s high streets. We are encouraging individuals, businesses and community groups to use the Barnet Together crowdfunding platform to fund their town centre festive light displays: https://barnettogether.org.uk/.

La Delivrance Finchley has two famous pieces of public art. La Delivrance is a 16-foot statue in bronze of a naked woman holding a sword aloft, and is the work of the French sculptor Emile Guillaume. It's at Henley's Corner, at the bottom of Regents Park Road. Because she has no clothes the statue has a number of local names including 'Dirty Gertie', 'The Wicked Woman', and most popularly (to the exclusion of its real name) 'The Naked Lady'.

Fortis Green was an opening made by an ancient lane which probably connected the manor of Finchley in East End Road with what was the north road out of London, predating the High Road. How it got its name is not clear. 'Fortis' suggests a place before something, but the 'something' is obscure. It appears in 1558 when it was considered part of Finchley Common. The green may simply have been a gap in woods and ran as far as where Muswell Hill Odeon is today.

Revaluation 2017 and transitional relief arrangements All rateable values are reassessed at a general revaluation typically every five years. The 2017 revaluation took effect on 1 April 2017. Revaluations make sure each ratepayer pays their fair contribution and no more, by ensuring that the share of the national rates bill paid by any one ratepayer reflects changes over time in the value of their property relative to others.