Highlands Garden sign

Highlands Gardens is a beautiful little park in Leicester Road New Barnet. It’s a park that over the years has been sadly neglected. There is a small friends group that have managed to raise enough money to re-instate the pumps for the water features and is working on getting the ponds relined so that there is enough water to operate the waterfalls that make this park so special.

A few weeks ago Barnet Council installed new signage. A cause for celebration? Well take a look at the photo. As far as I’m concerned these signs are ugly and inappropriate for the style of the park and unfortunately the Friends of Highlands Gardens were not consulted about the design. If they had been then we could have suggested better ways to spend the money. For example the Friends have developed a tree trail for the park that could have been implemented instead.