PANELS
PANELS
BARNET QUALITY
REVIEW PANEL
Brent Cross Town Visitor Pavilion, Moxon Architects © Simon Kennedy
The London Borough of Barnet is characterised by lively town centres, high-quality residential development and green spaces. A large area of the borough – 38 per cent – is undeveloped, and there are 200 parks as well as open land, green belt, allotments and playing fields.
Barnet is proud to be home to a mix of communities, including London’s largest Jewish community, who play a significant role in the identity of an ethnically diverse borough. The Council aims to concentrate development in the borough’s town centres and around transport nodes, to consolidate growth and enable the building of sustainable communities.
Developments in the borough are wide ranging and include mixed use town centre projects, neighbourhood master planning, high rise towers, low rise town housing and public realm works. The Council is committed to high quality, context responsive design which improves the lives of its residents. It sees a Quality Review Panel as a key initiative to help facilitate this.
The Barnet Quality Review Panel is chaired by Russell Curtis, Founding Director at RCKa. Selina Mason, Director of Masterplanning at Lendlease, is the panel's vice chair.
The Henrietta Barnett School, Hopkins Architects © Richard Brine
Meeting dates
One Quality Review Panel meeting date is provisionally arranged for each month.
Exceptionally, additional meetings may be required to accommodate the number of schemes requiring a review and/or to meet key dates for specific schemes.
The following dates are currently set for Barnet Quality Review Panel meetings during 2025:
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8 January
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5 February
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5 March
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2 April
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7 May
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4 June
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2 July
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6 August
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3 September
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1 October
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5 November
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3 December
Grahame Park, Peter Barber Architects © Morley von Sternberg
Meeting fees
The charges for Barnet Quality Review Panel meetings are benchmarked against comparable panels providing design review services in London, such as design review panels in the London Boroughs of Greenwich, Newham and Waltham Forest, and the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation.
Current charges for Barnet Quality Review Panel meetings are:
• Full review £5,975 + VAT
• Chair’s review £3,275 + VAT
The cost of venue hire, if required, would be in addition to the charges above.
Where a scheduled review is subsequently cancelled or postponed by the applicant, an administrative charge will be applied:
• 50% of full cost: less than two weeks before
scheduled review
• £800 + VAT: between two and four weeks
before scheduled review
New Ground Cohousing, Pollard Thomas Edwards © Galit Seligmann
