Barnet planning applications: QE sports hall among 57 new

Barnet Council validated 57 planning applications in the week beginning 21 September. (Barnet Council, weekly list of validated applications, Public Access) Eighteen are tree works, nine are house extensions and eight are certificates confirming a loft or garage conversion is lawful. Six are worth a closer look, and two big schemes validated the week before are now open for comment.

The ones to know about

• A four-storey sports hall at Queen Elizabeth’s School. The Queens Road grammar wants to demolish its Annex and build a Sport England four-court hall with community use, ten classrooms, six Eton Fives courts and cricket nets. We have reported the application in full. Comments run to 5 November. (26/3400/FUL)
• A food hall of four units on Plantagenet Road. At 8 Plantagenet Road, in Barnet Vale ward, the ground-floor shop would be split into four food and drink units with a kitchen extraction flue and new shopfronts. Above, a hip-to-gable roof extension and side and rear extensions would turn the existing flat into three. A front hardstanding would give customer parking. (26/3362/FUL)
• Seven studio flats at 79 Friern Barnet Road. A certificate is sought to confirm the building’s use as seven self-contained studios is lawful, which usually means the owner argues the use has run long enough to be immune from enforcement. (26/3436/191)
• A new house at 129 Kenilworth Road, Edgware. A detached home would be built beside the existing house after the garage is demolished. (26/3428/FUL)
• Barnet Elizabethans RFC’s clubhouse. The Byng Road club has applied to vary the approved plans for its clubhouse redevelopment, permitted in June 2024. (26/3399/S73)
• A six-bed HMO on Cricklewood Lane. At number 45, a family house would become a six-person house in multiple occupation with a rear extension and a raised roof. (26/3469/FUL) A separate certificate is sought for a four-bed HMO at 39 Ravenshurst Avenue, Hendon. (26/3233/191)

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Still open from the week before

Two of the borough’s largest current applications were validated in the week beginning 14 September and are in their consultation periods now:

• The former Crown Post Office, 63-65 High Street: prior approval for nine flats behind a kept shop front, comments to 12 October. Our report. (26/3331/PNE)
• Grahame Park North East, phase one: reserved matters for 449 homes in blocks of up to 21 storeys, comments to 5 November. Our report. (26/3328/RMA)

Also from that week: the Canal and River Trust wants to build a bird hide in the North Marsh of the Welsh Harp reservoir, with a site notice running to 15 October (26/3340/FUL); an office at 11A Golders Green Road would become an eight-bed HMO (26/3316/FUL); and the Mill Hill eruv would be extended along The Ridgeway (26/3163/FUL).

The full list, by area

High Barnet and Arkley (EN5)

• Queen Elizabeth’s School, Queens Road: sports hall, classrooms, Fives courts and cricket nets (26/3400/FUL)
• 8 Plantagenet Road: four food units, three flats above (26/3362/FUL)
• Barnet Elizabethans RFC, Byng Road: variation of approved clubhouse plans (26/3399/S73)
• Barnet College, Wood Street: green roof details under this year’s permission (26/3421/CON)
• 5 Gloucester Road: house split into two, garage converted (26/3443/FUL)
• Old Fold Manor Golf Club, Old Fold Lane: crown lifting of protected trees (TCP/0582/26)
• Junction of Plantagenet Road and Leicester Road: a green telecoms cabinet on the pavement (26/3463/LIC)
• Barnet Way, Mill Hill: antenna swap on an existing mast (26/3452/LIC)

East Barnet and New Barnet (EN4)

• 48 Bohun Grove: single-storey rear extension (26/3438/HSE)
• Pavement by Church Farm and St Mary the Virgin, Church Hill Road: a 15-metre “shout pole” for telecoms (26/3461/LIC)

Whetstone, Totteridge, Friern Barnet and Brunswick Park (N20, N11, N14)

• 79 Friern Barnet Road: lawful use as seven studio flats (26/3436/191)
• 69 Southway: front hardstanding for off-street parking (26/3462/192)
• 24 Russell Road: first-floor rear extension (26/3283/HSE)
• 15 Cowper Road: rear extension, garage conversion and porch (26/3474/HSE)
• 57 Arlington Road: two-storey rear extension (26/3441/HSE)
• 63 Friars Walk: garage to utility room and study (26/3450/192)
• Land north of Brunswick Park, rear of 153-163 Osidge Lane: biodiversity gain plan under last year’s permission (26/3457/BNG)
• 4 Grange Avenue: felling of a dead protected beech (TPP/0568/26)

Finchley and East Finchley (N2, N3, N12)

• 22-24 Thurlestone Avenue: extension to a rear office outbuilding (26/3453/FUL)
• Rear of 114 Torrington Park: landscaping, boundary, biodiversity and cycle details under the 2024 appeal decision (26/3458/CON)
• 52 Lichfield Grove: side, rear and first-floor extensions (26/3429/HSE)
• 23B Gruneisen Road: new garage after demolition of a boiler house (26/3412/FUL)
• 81 Bedford Road: single-storey rear extension (26/3460/HSE)
• 90 Manor Park Road: loft conversion certificate, granted as lawful (26/3440/192)
• 10 Oakview Gardens: 3.8-metre rear extension by prior notification (26/3423/PNH)
• Tree works at Hammerson House, 50A The Bishops Avenue (an ash and a goat willow to be felled), 3 Winnington Road and 9 Harford Walk

Golders Green, Hampstead Garden Suburb and Childs Hill (NW11, NW3)

• 38 North End Road: replacement kitchen extraction system and flue (26/3451/FUL)
• 28 Brookside Road: retrospective consent for a rear outbuilding (26/3366/RCU)
• 14 Cranbourne Gardens: six-metre rear extension by prior notification (26/3475/PNH)
• 19 West Heath Gardens: tree protection and construction management details (26/3431/CON and 26/3432/CON)
• Tree works at 82 and 84 Northway (three applications, including removal of a birch and a deodar cedar), 29 Brookland Hill, 1 and 3 Meadway Close, 26 Wildwood Road, 61 West Heath Road and Oracle Apartments, 63 West Heath Road

Hendon and Mill Hill (NW4, NW7)

• 39 Ravenshurst Avenue: lawful use as a four-bed HMO (26/3233/191)
• 20 Dartmouth Road: single-storey rear extension (26/3435/HSE)
• 57 Tithe Walk: loft conversion certificate (26/3348/192)
• St Mary’s Church, Church End, Hendon: felling of an ash and a group of dead elms (TCP/0583/26)
• 109 Wise Lane: thinning of a protected ash (TPP/0578/26)

Edgware, Colindale and Burnt Oak (HA8, NW9)

• 129 Kenilworth Road: new detached house (26/3428/FUL)
• 99 Francklyn Gardens: wraparound extension and a loft certificate (26/3433/HSE and 26/3437/192)
• 13 Annesley Avenue: retrospective consent for a rear extension (26/3446/RCU)
• 64 Colin Park Road: loft conversion certificate (26/3118/HSE)
• 162 Abbots Road: removal of a dead apple tree (TCP/0414/26)

Cricklewood and Brent Cross (NW2)

• 45 Cricklewood Lane: six-bed HMO with extension (26/3469/FUL)
• 340 Cricklewood Lane: lawful development certificate for a rear extension linking to 1 Ridge Road (26/3312/191)
• Brent Cross Shopping Centre, Prince Charles Drive: deadwood removal from protected planes and ashes (TPP/0563/26)

How to comment on any of these

Every application above can be opened by typing its reference into the search box on the council’s Public Access register. Comments are made on the application’s own page while it shows a consultation end date. Tree applications and condition details do not usually take public comments. Our planning applications page explains the application types and how decisions are made, and our parking page covers the permit rules that often follow a conversion.

Sources

• Barnet Council, Public Access planning register, weekly list of validated applications, weeks beginning 14 and 21 September 2026, read 25 September 2026
• Individual application pages as linked above

Image: High Street, Chipping Barnet. Photo by Immanuel Giel, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons