Whilst I’m on the subject of parks. The Friends of Ravenscroft Gardens in High Barnet are holding a Festive celebration on the Sunday 13th December 5pm – 7pm. There will be Carol singing, musicians and even Santa may turn up. Given the huge success of the Victorian day earlier in the year I’m hoping this event will be just as much fun.

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 …

My colleague Cllr Jack Cohen has posted the following on his Hendon Times blog.
The tories are in a real mess over this as they desperately avoid trying to admit what the Future shape programme is actually about.

Last night I attended the SPACE AGM. SPACES are a residents group that represent Sebright, Puller, Alston and Calvert Roads. They are one of the best organised and most active residents groups that I know of. The big issue last night was parking. The roads represented by SPACES are almost the last roads in High Barnet that are not in a controlled parking zone (CPZ). As a result they suffer from over spill parking as well as the fact that there is too little space to cope with residents parking …

It seems that the trust is closing because the two trustees are retiring and no replacements have been found. I hope more efforts will be made to find new trustees as losing the trust would be a very bad thing for Barnet.