This is the new front page of the Barnet Society's website -- a long-planned upgrade of our online presence.

Barnet and Southgate College students on creative and media production courses can now gain hands-on experience in tv, sound and animation at the Studio, a new multi-media production facility at the college's Barnet campus.

High Barnet is at a crossroads over future developments. Members of the Barnet Society are about to get an opportunity to debate key issues and hear the views of the Chipping Barnet MP Dan Tomlinson.

If Transport for London gets the go ahead to build four high-rise blocks of flats alongside Barnet Hill, they will transform the approach to the town from Underhill.

Restoring the 140-year-old organ at Barnet parish church is proving a massive task -- well over 2,000 organ pipes are having to be individually cleaned and if necessary repaired before they can all be re-assembled.

Barnet Football Club has completed another stage in its attempt to gain approval from Barnet Council for the construction of a 7,000-seat stadium on playing fields at Underhill.

  1. Safeguarding great crested newts and bats now an issue at planning inquiry over possible travellers' caravan site in Mays Lane
  2. Tudor Hall to be kept for community use after successful bid to purchase High Barnet's "unique heritage asset"
  3. Shake-up in Barnet's arts scene as borough council prepares to launch a long-awaited arts and culture strategy
  4. Chipping Barnet MP keen to work with Barnet Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups on new community projects
  5. High Barnet drama group's new play highlights life of Mary, wife of explorer and Hadley Green resident Dr David Livingstone
  6. Bus lanes to be introduced on High Street approach to Barnet town centre -- only six objections
  7. Trust established by tv stars Sarah Parish and James Murray to fund drama therapy sessions at Noah's Ark Children's Hospice
  8. McMullen brewery says two Barnet pub closures are only a "temporary measure" and that the premises should re-open by the spring
  9. Likely demolition of industrial and repair workshops has prompted a lookback to days when laundry was all hand washed
  10. Barnet Council under pressure to do more to support low-income families by following the lead set by Chipping Barnet Foodbank
  11. Barnet Council planning £22 million in cuts and another significant hike in council tax to tackle spending crisis
  12. Primary and junior schools in Barnet are a welcome home for surplus, reconditioned computer laptops and chrome books
  13. Revised plan by Barnet FC proposes a 7,000-seat stadium well away from school playing field of Ark Pioneer Academy
  14. Longest-ever commission for mural artist wins prize for festive display in High Barnet's Christmas window competition
  15. Third generation of cafe proprietors celebrate 70th birthday of Dory's -- a High Barnet town centre institution
  16. Increases in Barnet Council parking charges, parking permits and visitor parking vouchers come into effect in New Year
  17. Barnet Medieval Festival is relocating to farmland off Galley Lane with more space for Wars of the Roses re-enactments and camp sites
  18. Wide range of events entertained visitors at annual Barnet Christmas fayre despite a drizzly Sunday
  19. Exhibition celebrating 50th anniversary of High Barnet nature reserve and environment centre opens at The Spires shopping centre
  20. Plans to develop site of workshops on A1000 between High Barnet and Whetstone with new facility for self storage
  21. Four blocks of flats and 300 homes for High Barnet tube station, but all 160 car park spaces would be lost
  22. Saving High Barnet's much-loved Tudor Hall for community use now a step nearer after "generous offer" of potential funding
  23. Local growth must be underpinned by co-ordinated transport planning
  24. The Spires developers must up their design game – and drop their building heights