When the six councils in acute financial stress that were granted permission to increase council tax beyond this level ...

The local authority ... is part of the council’s long-term plan to establish Barnet as a borough of fun, with a thriving creative sector that puts it on London’s cultural map.

Barnet Council charges less for council tax than the average across England, new figures show. It comes as a think tank warned the "relentless rise" of council tax was "unsustainable", and called ...

Just three of the 33 London councils have opted to increase council tax by less than 4.99 per cent, Wandsworth, Kensington & Chelsea and Barnet (4.80%), while Newham ... are increasing council tax to ...

The totemic London councils of Wandsworth, Westminster and Barnet, as well as the bellwether council of Southampton, all fell from the Conservatives to Labour. They were among almost 40 councils ...

Barnet Council has ruled out hiking council ... further details emerged of the scale of the problems facing the local authority. The council was forced to raid its reserves to cut a £13.5 million ...

Despite widespread, fierce and well publicised local objection ... a £130m joint venture between Barnet and Capita to provide the majority of the council's visible services: planning ...

Most councils are set to increase council tax by the maximum amount of at least 4.99% from April. Government figures released on Wednesday show 85% of the 139 top-tier authorities in England that ...