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Barnet Started 876 Affordable Homes Last Year as London Beat Its Target
Barnet started 876 affordable homes in 2025-26, second only to Tower Hamlets, as London beat its target with 21,001 starts. City Hall figures, 10 November 2026.
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Barnet
Meeting Santa in Barnet: Hendon's Fair, a Pub Breakfast and the Free Fayre Grotto
Meet Father Christmas at St Mary's Hendon on 28 November, the Old White Lion on 5 December or the free Fayre grotto on 6 December. Updated November 2026.
Family
Soft Play and Rainy-Day Places Near Barnet
We checked 10 Barnet soft play venues, from free play at artsdepot to AeroPlay at the RAF Museum, for prices, ages and opening hours. Updated November 2026.
Colindale
Colindale Weather: 7-Day Forecast and Today's Hourly Outlook
Colindale weather today: overcast, 8°C by day and 3°C overnight, with a 0% chance of rain and winds up to 12 mph. Seven-day forecast, updated every morning.
Environment
Barnet Climate Action Week: Free Repair Record Bid Saturday
Free repairs for broken kettles, bikes and clothes at Cultivate Colindale on Saturday 10 October, 11am to 3pm, in a London record bid. 17 events to 18 October.
Council
Barnet Council's Colindale HQ needs 2 years of fire repairs
Barnet's 2019 Colindale offices have fire safety defects. Repairs run November 2026 to November 2028; Cabinet approved £770,136 of oversight on 12 October.
Barnet
RAF Museum London Christmas: Elf Cadets 5 to 13 December
Elf Cadets runs at the RAF Museum on 5, 6, 12 and 13 December, £7 a child, with candlelit Christmas jazz on 19 December. Entry is free, 10am to 5pm.
Housing
Grahame Park: 449 homes and a 21-storey tower, decision due
Barnet Lovell Regeneration has filed detailed plans for the first phase of Grahame Park North East: 449 homes replacing 156, half affordable by habitable room, in blocks of up to 21 storeys. Decision due by 17 December.
Council
Barnet ends Capita IT deal, takes service in-house 1 Oct
Barnet is running its own IT from 1 October after a £6.2m contract award was abandoned. Capita's whole IT workforce transfers to the council under TUPE.
Transport
Barnet EV Charging Bays: Five to Go, Object by 15 Oct
Five on-street charging bays would go and one would move, three on Grahame Park Way. Objections close 15 October; Barnet's charger total is already falling.
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.
Barnet
Barnet Half Term: Free Films, Pumpkins, Ghost Walks
Barnet half term is 26 to 30 October: free Spires pumpkin parties on 28 and 30 Oct, Brent Cross Town films and a dog parade, GROW pumpkins and ghost walks.
Arts
Waylamps of Barnet: where the four new lampposts are
Four sculptural lampposts now stand between Colindale Station and Tally Ho Corner, linked by the 125 bus. Here is where each one is, who it is named after, and where to get the free map.