Housing
Barnet House Prices Down 4.9% Despite Five Months of Rises
The average Barnet home sold for £600,560 in July, down £30,960 on a year. Flats fell 7.0%, and June's figure was revised down by £9,460.
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Crime
Finchley Shooting: Man Charged, Old Bailey Trial in 2027
A man arrested in Spain is charged with murder and three firearms counts over the fatal Dale Grove shooting. He is remanded until a trial next June.
Schools
St James' Catholic High Ofsted: Expected in All 7 Areas
Ofsted graded the Colindale school Expected standard in all seven areas. Its disadvantaged pupils outscored the national average for all pupils at GCSE.
Housing
Brent Cross Town: 82 Social Rent Homes, Ready From 2029
SNG has exchanged contracts for 82 social rent homes at Brent Cross Town, residents in from 2029. Barnet lets 650 social homes a year; Band 4 waits 34 years.
Barnet
Barnet Remembrance Sunday: 8 November, 16 Services
Remembrance Sunday falls on 8 November 2026. The RAF Museum has confirmed a free 11am service, and here is the borough's full list of local services and times.
Barnet
Barnet Half Term: Ghost Walks, Laser Tag, Dear Zoo
October half term runs 26 to 30 October. Four Halloween ghost walks leave High Barnet tube, the RAF Museum runs Jet and Space Week, artsdepot has four shows.
Business
Swimming Nature in Administration: Sister Firms Trade On
Administrators took charge of Swimming Nature UK on 19 August and its Finchley Road office has gone. Two sister companies at that address stay active.
Environment
Barnet Flood Alleviation: £1.5m Lyndhurst Park Works
Barnet tendered £1.5m of flood works at Lyndhurst Park and The Meads, with the contract estimated to end 6 October. No contractor is named on the public record.
Planning
Mill Hill 463 Homes: Mayor Takes Over, Comments to 27 Sep
Barnet refused 463 homes at Stoney Wood Quarter on eight grounds. The Mayor took the decision off the council, and comments are open until 27 September.
Hendon
Barnet Fireworks: Totteridge Confirmed for 6 November
Totteridge Millhillians has confirmed Friday 6 November and Hadley Wood has booked Sunday 1 November. Hendon's StoneX display, the biggest, has no date yet.
Barnet
Barnet Christmas Fayre 2026: Sunday 6 December, Free
The Barnet Christmas Fayre returns to the High Street on Sunday 6 December 2026, noon to 5pm, free to attend. What was on last year, what is still to come.
Barnet
Barnet Pantomime 2026: Aladdin at The Bull, 1-24 Dec
The Bull Theatre in High Barnet stages Aladdin from 1 to 24 December 2026. Times and prices are not out, but artsdepot's festive shows are on sale now.
North Finchley
artsdepot Autumn 2026: 46 Shows, Tickets From £9.50
North Finchley's theatre has 46 shows and 131 performances booked to New Year's Eve. Rapunzel runs 12 to 24 December and the cheapest seat is £9.50.
Barnet Live covers the whole borough, from High Barnet at the top of the Northern line down to Cricklewood, and from Hampstead Garden Suburb across to Finchley, Hendon, Edgware, Golders Green and Colindale. Different as those places are, they share one council, one planning register, and decisions that shape everybody’s week.
We read the records. Planning applications, police crime data, council spending, licensing notices: we go through them, write up what they actually say in plain English, and put a link to the source on every fact so you can check it yourself. We also look after the pages nobody would call journalism but everybody searches for, like which day your bin goes out in Finchley, what the car parks charge and which council tax band your street sits in.
Start with these
- Local Info: the practical pages, bin collection days, parking and council tax bands.
- News: what the public record shows, including planning applications.
- What’s On: things worth turning out for across the borough.
If we get something wrong, we would far rather hear it from you than leave it standing.