Helping and Informing Residents for over 30 Years
Brunswick Park Health Centre STILL Not Open:We have waited impatiently for nearly 3½ YEARS but still we can't get a date from the NHS for when the fully refurbished health centre will re-open. NHS England were asked to appear before Barnet Council's Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee meeting on 9th May 2013 but there were no real signs that this matter will be resolved urgently: More news as it becomes available.
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On Saturday 2nd March 2013 East Barnet Councillor Robert Rams posted this photo on Twitter. EBRA committee member Alan Kelley thinks the newspaper article is probably from around 1990 or 1991. |
Photo © Barnet Times |
We are delighted to report that the residents of Russell Lane and people who use the shops there, have succeeded in their struggle to prevent more of the historic green lane being paved over, and to prevent double yellow lines which would have severely affected the local traders' livelihoods. The EBRA distributed leaflets to the Russell Lane area to alert residents and businesses to the plans and encourage them to respond to the Council, when we realised that the Council's own consultation was very narrowly focused and most residents were completely unaware of the proposals.
At the Area Environment Sub-Committee meeting on 16th October 2012, the chairman Councillor Barry Evangeli said "We all value the input from the East Barnet Residents' Association who are integral to our area of our borough for their input and the sterling work that they do, so thank you very much."
The committee voted unanimously
to scrap the project.
Other recent successes for residents:
27 June 2012: Plans to rent out Oak Hill Park for "private events" were scrapped
17 May 2012: Plans to introduce parking charges in Brunswick Park Ward car parks were scrapped
11 May 2012: Plans to introduce parking charges in East Barnet Village car park were scrapped
9 December 2011: Plans to expand the park keepers' depot in Oak Hill Park were scrapped
The more members we have, the better we can represent residents in this part of the East Barnet and Brunswick Park wards.