Draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy for Barnet 2025 – 2035 consultation

Background

Barnet has a great collection of parks and open spaces, and these are an important part of the borough. Our greenspaces provide a range of benefits for residents, visitors and for those that work in the borough.

We have been working hard to improve the quality and provision of Barnet’s parks since we launched our last Parks and Open Spaces Strategy 2016 - 2026, and our parks are becoming increasingly popular with local people and community groups, many of which play an important role in shaping improvements and investments to their local parks.

A future challenge is to protect, maintain and improve these valuable assets to ensure they meet the current and future needs of our residents, whilst also delivering on some of the council's wider aspirations such as ensuring our biodiversity can respond to climate change.

In 2024 we worked with Community First Partnership Ltd (CFP) to gather views on what you thought about the parks and opens spaces across Barnet, how you use them and any barriers to use, how they could be improved and for any priority actions. You can read further information on this engagement and a summary of stakeholder and community engagement. This information has been used to develop the draft Parks and Open Spaces Strategy. Data has also been collected from all the parks and open spaces to inform the development of the draft strategy. This data is available to view on Barnet's Open Data portal.

There are six strategic aims in the draft strategy. For each aim we have set out the strategic commitments and actions for year 1 in Appendix A .

What we are proposing

We would like to know what you think about the six strategic aims in the draft strategy and the actions for year 1 associated with the six aims. 

How to have your say

Please complete the online questionnaire below. 

Submit Questionnaire

The draft strategy, draft action plan and report of the Summary of Stakeholder and Community Engagement will be available to view at Hendon Library and Chipping Barnet Library from Monday 24 November. Paper questionnaires will be available to complete and can be submitted into the red post box in each library.

To request a questionnaire in an alternative format, please email parks@barnet.gov.uk or telephone 020 8359 7404.

Alternatively, you can write to us at: parks@barnet.gov.uk or Greenspaces, London Borough of Barnet, 2 Bristol Avenue, Colindale, London, NW9 4EW.

What happens after the consultation closes?

The council will consider responses received, and if appropriate will make amendments to the draft strategy and the draft Year 1 action plan. The final approval will be by the Executive Director for Communities, Adults and Health, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment and Climate Change.

We will publish the results of the consultation and how we have acted on them, on this web page.

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Contact

Nicola Cross, Greenspaces Development Manager

Email: parks@barnet.gov.uk

Telephone: 020 8359 7404