The North Area Committee meets four times per calendar year
and represents the following wards:
East Barnet
Barnet Vale
High Barnet
Underhill
Totteridge and Woodside
Mill Hill
Edgwarebury
Whetstone
The North Area Committee has the following
responsibilities:-
1) Provide an
opportunity for any resident to raise matters affecting the area
(except matters relating to licensing and planning
applications).
2) Responsibility
for all area specific matters relating to the street scene
including parking, road safety, transport,
allotments, parks and trees.
3) Consider area
specific matters as agreed with the Chair.
4) Consider
matters relating to Town Centre regeneration and designating
conservation areas.
5) Determine the
allocation of Community Infrastructure Levy funding within the area
subject to sufficient of the budget allocated to the committee
being unspent.
In addition to the above the North Area Committee can
also:
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Consider issues submitted by citizens on
local matters and determine how they are to be taken forward,
including instructing an Officer to provide an additional response
within 20 working days.
o To
submit a Resident Issue please use this link
o Issues must
be submitted to the Governance Service by 10am on the tenth working
day before the meeting.
- Consider
petitions which receive between 501 and 3000 signatures relating to
the functions and responsibilities of the Area Committee. Following
consideration of the petition, the Area Committee can determine how
the matter is taken forward. The Committee will decide
to:
• Take no action
• Refer the matter to the relevant Cabinet
Member or Committee Chair to provide a written respond to Lead
Petitioner within 20 working days; or
• Instruct an officer to prepare a report for a
future meeting of Cabinet or the Committee on the issue(s) raised
with a recommended course of action
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The link to the petitions site can be
found here -http://barnet.moderngov.co.uk/mgEPetitionListDisplay.aspx?bcr=1
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Detailed
responsibilities of North Area Committee, including a complete list
of the Committee’s powers and duties) can be found in the
Constitution under Part 2B Terms of
Reference of Committees and the Part 3C
- Committee
Procedure Rules
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Details on Petitions can be found in the
Constitution under Part 3F Petition
Scheme