Barnet Liberal Democrats are calling for a complete rethink of planned changes to the 143 bus route.

Transport for London is planning to reroute the 143 bus so that it no longer goes through Highgate Village. It's a plan which benefits no one -- it's all about cutting costs to deal with the hole in TfL's finances.

The A1000 Cycle Lane must be kept for good, and should be properly funded, Barnet Lib Dems say today, as they bring a motion to Full Council in its support.

The group will use a motion amendment to force a simple "yes/no" vote on the future of the A1000 Cycle Lane, to encourage local councillors to get off the fence on the issue.

The Conservatives decision to suspend the "pensions triple lock" will impact 16,364 state pensioners in Finchley and Golders Green this winter, new figures from the Liberal Democrats show.

In Parliament on Monday, Conservatives - including Finchley's MP Mike Freer - voted to suspend the triple lock, a rule that means that state pensions must rise in line with whichever is highest of inflation, average earnings or 2.5%.

Barnet Liberal Democrats have attacked the decision to delay a decision on the Markaz in Golders Green as discriminatory, illiberal and unjust.

Local Conservatives pushed through the delay last night (19 July) in a surprise move at Barnet Council's Strategic Planning Committee.

The committee was considering whether to allow a change of use for the Hippodrome, Golders Green, from 'church' to 'place of worship', a decision which has already taken more than a year to reach committee stage.

Jonathan Davies sadly passed away after a serious illness lasting over one year. He was tragically only in his 50s.

Susette and I have known him as a friend and colleague for what seems a lifetime and is certainly very many years.

His work in the Liberal Democrats is legendary, and I doubt that we can, at this stage, do full justice to all his work:

We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Jonathan Davies, our friend and colleague, a devoted Liberal Democrat who held many roles within our local party and nationally.

A full tribute will be published here shortly.

Sean Hooker, a former councillor and East Barnet resident, has been selected to fight the East Barnet byelection for the Liberal Democrats on Thursday 6 May.

His primary focus for the area is to ensure that the development of the Victoria Quarter, which is proposed for the old gas works site, is done in a sensitive, sustainable and environmentally friendly way.

Barnet Liberal Democrats present

An evening with human rights barrister Adam Wagner

18 March 2021 • 20:00-21:30 • Via Zoom

Adam Wagner is a human rights barrister who has become Britain's go-to expert on the ever-changing lockdown rules. In the past week his work advising Reclaim These Streets has raised his profile still higher.