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Barnet: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

London Borough of Barnet: London borough (unitary), England, London; part of the GLA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E09000003.

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The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

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Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Barnet for 2026–27: £1,622.09 of a £2,132.60 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

Garden Suburb Junior School (primary) — open, but proposed to close; reason recorded: result of amalgamation/merger; proposed date 31 December 2026

In the last twelve months: 1 opened (1 former independent), 1 closed (1 closure)

Barnet Hill Academy — closed; reason recorded: closure, 31 August 2026
Barnet Hill Academy (primary) — open; reason recorded: former independent, 1 September 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

The budget for each service, as Barnet reported it to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. The same headings, in the same order, for every council in England.

Barnet: budget by service, 2026 to 2027
Service	Budget
Education services	£325.6 million
Highways and transport services	£20.4 million
Children's social care	£111.2 million
Adult social care	£217.4 million
Public health	£24.4 million
Housing services (general fund only)	£34.8 million
Cultural and related services	£10.0 million
Environmental and regulatory services	£30.3 million
Planning and development services	£4.6 million
Police services	none budgeted
Fire and rescue services	none budgeted
Central services	£14.9 million
Other services	none budgeted
Total service expenditure	£793.5 million

Net current expenditure: net of sales, fees and charges; spending funded by the NHS, such as through the Better Care Fund, is excluded.A minus figure means the service’s income is budgeted to be more than its spending. “None budgeted” usually means another body runs that service here. Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Revenue Account Budget 2026 to 2027, individual local authority data (part 1), updated 11 June 2026 (Open Government Licence).

Life in Barnet: the official facts

Facts about the people who live here: their pay, homes, health and more, from official statistics. They describe the place, not you, and every council gets the same list. Each shows when it was measured.

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Showing: Barnet.

People living here: 408,087 people 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsAn official estimate of everyone who lives in the area, in the middle of the year.
Typical age: 38 years 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsHalf the people who live here are younger than this and half are older.
Money to live on, per person, per year: £38,184 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage household income per person after taxes, with benefits added: what people have to spend or save.
Typical weekly pay, before tax: £756 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsFor employees who live here: half earn more than this each week, half earn less.
Children growing up in poverty: 27.2% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsThe share of children under 16 in families on low incomes once housing costs are paid.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits: 5.1% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsThe share of people aged 16 to 64 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work.
Average price of a home: £592,892 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs: 12.1 times yearly pay 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsA typical home's price divided by the typical yearly pay of people who live here.
Years in good health: women: 61.7 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a girl born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Years in good health: men: 62.7 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a boy born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Greenhouse gases, per person: 2.7 tonnes per person 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroEmissions from the area in a year, shared out per resident, in tonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalent.
Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband: 80.2% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars: 288.1 per 100,000 people 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublic charging points at all speeds, for every 100,000 people.
Businesses trading here: 27,920 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Barnet from the ONS

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

This council’s area is covered by the Greater London Authority, with the Mayor of London.

63 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Conservative and Unionist 31, Labour Party 31, Green Party (E&W) 1.

Next scheduled council election: 2 May 2030.

All 63 councillors, by ward

David Longstaff (Conservative and Unionist) — Barnet Vale
Richard Barnes (Labour Party) — Barnet Vale
Sue Baker (Labour Party) — Barnet Vale
Lewis Preston-Kyrionymou (Conservative and Unionist) — Brunswick Park
Paul Roberts (Conservative and Unionist) — Brunswick Park
Suren Ramanakumar (Conservative and Unionist) — Brunswick Park
Charlotte Daus (Labour Party) — Burnt Oak
Kamal Gurung (Labour Party) — Burnt Oak
Sara Conway (Labour Party) — Burnt Oak
Adam Gheasuddin (Conservative and Unionist) — Childs Hill
Cory Turner (Conservative and Unionist) — Childs Hill
Jeremy Conway (Conservative and Unionist) — Childs Hill
Andreas Ioannidis (Labour Party) — Colindale North
Erin Sanders-McDonagh (Labour Party) — Colindale North
Gill Sargeant (Labour Party) — Colindale South
Humayune Khalick (Labour Party) — Colindale South
Nagus Narenthira (Labour Party) — Colindale South
Alan Schneiderman (Labour Party) — Cricklewood
Anne Clarke (Labour Party) — Cricklewood
David Allen (Conservative and Unionist) — East Barnet
Philip Cohen (Labour Party) — East Barnet
Simon Radford (Labour Party) — East Barnet
Ajith Menon (Labour Party) — East Finchley
Alison Moore (Labour Party) — East Finchley
Katy Minshall (Labour Party) — East Finchley
Lucy Wakeley (Conservative and Unionist) — Edgware
Nick Mearing-Smith (Conservative and Unionist) — Edgware
Shuey Gordon (Conservative and Unionist) — Edgware
Benjamin Goldberg (Conservative and Unionist) — Edgwarebury
Lachhya Gurung (Conservative and Unionist) — Edgwarebury
Jennifer Grocock (Conservative and Unionist) — Finchley Church End
Josh Mastin-Lee (Conservative and Unionist) — Finchley Church End
Sachin Rajput (Conservative and Unionist) — Finchley Church End
Barry Rawlings (Labour Party) — Friern Barnet
Beverley Kotey (Labour Party) — Friern Barnet
Pauline Webb (Labour Party) — Friern Barnet
Martha Levy (Conservative and Unionist) — Garden Suburb
Michael Mire (Conservative and Unionist) — Garden Suburb
Dean Cohen (Conservative and Unionist) — Golders Green
Peter Zinkin (Conservative and Unionist) — Golders Green
Alex Prager (Conservative and Unionist) — Hendon
Asher Bennett (Conservative and Unionist) — Hendon
Shimon Ryde (Conservative and Unionist) — Hendon
Emma Whysall (Labour Party) — High Barnet
James Esses (Conservative and Unionist) — High Barnet
Elliot Simberg (Conservative and Unionist) — Mill Hill
Nicole Ereira (Conservative and Unionist) — Mill Hill
Raffy Lachter (Conservative and Unionist) — Mill Hill
Alison Cornelius (Conservative and Unionist) — Totteridge & Woodside
Caroline Stock (Conservative and Unionist) — Totteridge & Woodside
Richard Cornelius (Conservative and Unionist) — Totteridge & Woodside
Josh Tapper (Labour Party) — Underhill
Zahra Beg (Labour Party) — Underhill
Danny Rich (Labour Party) — West Finchley
Kath McGuirk (Labour Party) — West Finchley
Ross Houston (Labour Party) — West Finchley
Andrea Bilbow (Labour Party) — West Hendon
Carrie Reiners (Labour Party) — West Hendon
Rishikesh Chakraborty (Labour Party) — West Hendon
Ezra Cohen (Labour Party) — Whetstone
Stephen Lewis (Conservative and Unionist) — Whetstone
Anne Hutton (Labour Party) — Woodhouse
Charli Thompson (Green Party (E&W)) — Woodhouse

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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