The council's Emergency On-Call Response Team has been managing a major fire incident throughout the night, affecting properties at 418-430 Watford Way. Consequently, the A1 Watford Way (Barnet By-Pass) was closed in both directions due to fire service activities from Fiveways Corner to A5100 The Broadway (Mill Hill Circus). The roads have now been reopened.

Interim Chief Executive Cath Shaw is to become Barnet Council’s permanent new Chief Executive, subject to ratification by Council on 4 March.

Cath’s appointment as Chief Executive was recommended by the cross-party Employment Sub-Committee (26 February) and followed an extensive recruitment process. She is the first woman to have held the post in the council’s 60-year history.

The new Local Plan sets our vision for growth and development in Barnet over a 15 year period (2021-2036).

Barnet Council is to receive £55.7m in government support as part of its financial plans to close the council’s budget gap for the next year.

The Leader of the Council, Cllr Barry Rawlings, received notice on Thursday afternoon (20 February) of the decision by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government that the council’s application for ‘exceptional financial support’ was granted.

A landlord has been ordered to pay £37,000 in fines and costs after Barnet Council inspectors found 18 tenants including children and infants, sharing a house in Edgware.

The home, in Fairmead Crescent, Edgware, originally built as a three-bedroom linked terraced house had been converted into eight bedsits and was being operated without a licence.