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Barnet Council and the Environment Agency have crushed a Ford Transit tipper truck that was used by flytippers to dump huge amounts of rubbish in the otherwise idyllic suburban village of Totteridge. The mountain of trash was discovered on private land. The vehicle used in the flytipping was seized by the Environment Agency on Thursday 8 August after a multi-agency operation that included the Met Police and Barnet Council. The land-owner was left to foot the bill to clear the rubbish that the flytippers had left behind.

Provisional results from the Department for Education show pupils in the borough performed extremely well when based on Progress 8 scores which gauge the progress made by each student during their time at secondary school, placing them top nationally out of 151 local authorities.

The Pensions Regulator issued an improvement notice to Barnet Council in July. The Regulatory Intervention Report was issued as a result of The Pensions Regulator’s ongoing engagement with Barnet Council.

This represents a considerable challenge in Barnet, a borough with over 30,000 street trees. The annual leaf fall from these trees is largely weather dependant and therefore unpredictable. As such a sustained effort is needed across many weeks to clear leaves from footways and highways during Autumn and Winter.

Together, we are Barnet will highlight some of our many groups and local projects, as well as individuals, who contribute so much to our community.

The council will be joining thousands of national and local organisations taking part in Giving Tuesday, which happens each year, just after the popular shopping days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

The owners of a former pub who demolished the building leaving a boarded-up, vacant site on a busy high street have been told to take action or face having to rebuild the demolished building.The former ‘After Office Hours’ pub, located on the busy High Street in High Barnet, was demolished shortly after receiving planning permission in 2017 to clear the way for a project to replace it with a three-storey building incorporating a bar and homes on the upper floors.

Celebrating the people who together make Barnet Together, we are Barnet will highlight some of our many groups and local projects, as well as individuals, who contribute so much to our community.

On Sunday 10 November, the Worshipful the Mayor of Barnet, Councillor Caroline Stock, will attend a service of remembrance due to be held at the Hendon War Memorial.

The borough won praise at the Good Food For London Awards 2018 for its work on sugar reduction, quality of food available for all residents, food security and healthy eating and healthy cooking education in schools. Councillor Caroline Stock, Chairman of Barnet Council’s Health & Wellbeing Board, said: “We are delighted to have earned this recognition for our hard work in the last year.