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Barnet Council’s new four-year strategy aimed at improving the lives of children and young people in the borough was launched at the Full Council Meeting at Hendon Town Hall, on Tuesday 11 July 2023. The event was attended by young people from Barnet Youth Assembly, who opened the meeting and helped announce the Children and Young People Plan.

The Mayor of Barnet marked the start of South Asian Heritage Month by hosting a flag-raising event, that was attended by Cllrs, council officers and members of Barnet’s South Asian community. The event, held at Hendon Town Hall today, Tuesday 18 July, was the start of a month-long calendar of events celebrating South Asian heritage and culture. Opening the event, the worshipful Mayor of Barnet, Cllr Nagus Narenthira, said:

A further £8million will be spent on road maintenance over the next two years to help deal with potholes and the maintenance of highways, as Cllrs voted it through at Barnet Council’s Cabinet meeting last night, 18 July 2023. The new investment is in response to the 2022/23 winter period when the number of potholes reported jumped almost 95% to 3699 compared to the previous winter period which saw 1896 reported for repair.

Barnet Council is inviting residents to join the celebrations and be part of this year's Car Free Day by hosting a one-off play street event over the weekend of Friday, 22 September to Sunday, 24 September 2023.

Barnet Council is inviting residents to participate in shaping the future of Burnt Oak Town Centre with a consultation on how best to enhance the public space. The consultation builds on the community’s extensive engagement in the Burnt Oak Town Centre Strategy through the Burnt Oak Partnership Board.

Barnet Council is today launching a campaign to become London’s 2027 Borough of Culture – and we need your help to make it happen. Despite being a fantastic place to live and work and with hidden gems generally known only to local people, Barnet is not recognised as a hotbed of culture.

Barnet Council has launched its interactive tree portal, a significant marker in the council’s ambition to become a net zero council by 2030 and a net zero borough by 2042. The portal, which is now live, has an interactive map, allowing unprecedented access to information about all the trees in Barnet on public land. The map also allows residents to submit a tree enquiry for the council to investigate.

In June, the council’s Cabinet Members voted unanimously to make the purchase, which forms one-quarter of the council’s commitment to deliver 1,000 new affordable homes by 2026. Most of the new homes will be made available for rent starting in October 2023 with the remainder following in January 2024.

Barnet students celebrated their A-level and vocational results today (17 August), with many schools across the borough having reported achieving their best ever results. This was the first official set of exams this cohort of students sat, after GCSE examinations were cancelled in the 2019/20 and 2020/21 academic years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Barnet Council supports the recent statements released by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and London Tobacco Alliance, who are tackling misinformation about vaping by calling for responsible media coverage and sharing clinically proven and accurate information. Dr Tamara Djuretic, Joint Director of Public Health and Prevention, Barnet Council and The Royal Free London Group, and Cllr Alison Moore, Chair of the Health & Wellbeing Board at Barnet Council, say: