Barnet Council Reviews 

Im not gonna waste my time and breath on this awful, useless council (if you can call it that.) a council should be a representation of its community and not a group of white people who are 80 years olds with money. So I will use 1 word to describe this council: trash

This Local authority is diabolical! they go to extremes to recover sums of money which they actually should be waiving and are so hard-headed that they won't even negotiate the repayment. Upon this, when they receive the money THEY LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH by saying they haven't received it.

I don't understand how such corrupt liars can get away with so much! They are not even real customer service, they're unprofessional, cowboy imposters who are not fit for purpose!

Barnet is the worst council I've ever come across. They are violent, abusive and treacherous to the people they are supposed should serve.

They get off of financially abusing people when they are down and out. If you are thinking of living under this authority, please AVOID AT ALL COST!, They will molest you, and then rob you out of any financial aid you are entitled to.

A bunch of hard-hearted, senseless jokers! Never Again.

Awful service across the phones, staff do not know why their phones line for gas safety checks either just rings or hangs up happening for the past two weeks and wonder why you ring another line. They arrange gas checks appointments then randomly change it to their liking and wonder why people ring upset. I took time off work for them to their check to add they spammed my inbox with this appointment 4 times in a row which i found unprofessional. Nobody seemed bothered that their lines for gas checks dont work also. They also randomly changed my gas check appointment for another date after wasting my time making me take time off work for this Friday for no reason and tell me they don't know why it was changed also seriously if they dont know who does?. Seem to know nothing i rarely contact them but when I do always a bad service with rude and patronising staff who seems to know nothing. nearly everyone who also lives in the borough say the same thing.

Completely unnecessary Council ! No work is being done ! Incompetent, lazy and illiterate people who are totally careless regarding their job! Completely useless to the community. It is better to fire them all and give their salaries to people in need.

Today we have tried to book to give Notice for a Civil Partnership. The Barnet Council website has been appalling at every single step of the way. Illiterate. Clunky. Incorrect. You can get halfway through a booking but then you hit a brick wall. I could go on and on. Booking the venue in Camden via the Camden Council website has been an absolute joy. There is no excuse for this incompetence.

Great at passing the buck. All working from home.
Roofer booked to go 3 times and never turned up.
Water coming in through the roof and nobody could care less.
The "TalkToUs" is NOT working.

Last year I made a complaint to Barnet Council about the care my brother was receiving in his last few months. The person I dealt with was Odeya Barr (Lead Practitioner, Multi Agency Safeguarding Team). I always had to remind them to answer me. In the end they accused me of lying, then in the same e-mail lied to me. When I replied I have just been ignored. Unbelievably rude behaviour. But after reading all the other reviews, it seems to be normal behaviour for Barnet Council.

Barnet homes is run by a bunch of clowns therefore they are officially a circus, none of them read each others reports and none care for peoples mental health in fact they disbelieve you even if you have evidence via doctors ect they are adamant they know best.

When i picture barnet homes i picture a tent with a bunch of red nosed clowns.
Stuck up staff who just doesnt care about anyone but themself.
Honest review given due to experience if your thinking barnet homes can help you with anything think again they will put you in temp accom and then try push you into private living due to the sheer fact that they can not be bothered!

A costly council website that is simply rubbish, it sends you round and round in loops with no real way of understanding what your codes are, or how to even pay things.
Their phone service has been an epic waste of time with no answer from anyone and leaving me listening to music then cutting me off.

Has to be the worst service I have ever encountered ...... Ever!

For a council this is starting to look like they are making it difficult so that we fall into arrears.
Scammers !

Barnet are a bunch of Liars, I have proved it time and time again.

No stars are appropriate

Everyone in Barnet Homes should be sacked for their poor attitude and lack of interest in actually providing the service they are paid to do. Sticking homeless people in overpriced temporary accommodation with mouldy mattresses, broken windows and non secure properties and then when property refused instruct UKSL (another cowboy operation) to chase for rent not owed. How they get away with it is mind blowing.

Barnet Council are are a bunch of lying fascist dictators. Having falsely accused me of not paying any council tax in a previous year, they conveniently hide any disclosure of who to report their false allegations to (they should have disclosed this earlier in the year of this incident), so that complaints against them are deliberately dropped. In fact, they are the ones that owe me money which they still have not paid out to me to this date. They have decided to not respond to any of my calls/emails following the mess they have made.

In future, I will not be giving the benefit of the doubt to Barnet Council when they make a blunder. They have taken advantage of the good nature of council tax payers that take the time to assist them to clear matters only to stab them in the back.

No telephone number to make contact. Links don't work regarding council tax. Delays in answering emails. What an earth are Barnet Council employees doing since the pandemic? We need a better service from the local council. Would give zero stars if I could!

Don’t expect any help from Labour Councillors

I contacted LABOUR Councillor Rishikesh Chakraborty, West Hendon Ward, Mobile: +447716092340, Twitter: @RishikeshChakr9, about the FRAUD committed against me, by the London Borough of Barnet (LBB)

I gave Chakroborty conclusive absolute documented evidence of Barnet Council’s criminal offences (FRAUD and PERVERTING the COURSE of JUSTICE). I thought, as a new Labour Councillor, Chakroborty might have at least a shred of honesty, but no.

Chakroborty sent a one-line email to LBB about this - unsurprisingly LBB said they’d deleted their files, and don’t want to discuss this any more.

Despite the absolute proof I had given Chakroborty, he evidently said to LBB “OK, thanks”.

THAT’S the sort of representation you can expect from the LABOUR Councillors. Even the TORY Councillors, duplicitous liars as they are, treated this matter a little bit more seriously. Even TORY MP Matthew Offord TORY tried to help a little bit (He was previously deputy Leader of LBB, so he can’t openly criticize his ex-colleagues.)

Chakroborty suggests, maybe I could make a formal complaint to Barnet Council - (Ha Ha Ha, I did that years ago) or write to the Local Government Ombudsman - (also did that years ago - they won’t get involved). And to cap it all, then Chakroborty says “I hope that this provides some closure on this long-running case”. No, It doesn't.

Barnet Council are Criminals and you can’t do anything about it !

That's it, Rishi ! Don't rock the Gravy Train !

My family have been mistreated and discriminated by Jorden Moffret, from Barnet Council, she or he illegally removed my son from a tenancy while he was at University so he or she could provide a dirty, filthy, unpainted, 2 bedroom property in Leighton, buzzard, away from family and friends. Barnet Council keep putting my family in debt, making a business enterprise while they deliberately create debt. Barnet Council are a disgusting and unprofessional council which should be shut down. The staff are rude and incompetent.

I would give 0, if possible.
The service was bad before but at least there was a slight chance of speaking with someone who was helpful.
Not anymore.
The phone service either disconnects or won't transfer to any department. The website is very slow, or crashes, and I couldn't access my account but could in the past.
The system seems designed to be unhelpful and make you not bother. The service was bad during Covid, which I could understand, but now seems even worse. Moving abroad anyway so will, hopefully, never deal with this council again.

Terrible service we tried calling no answer. We tried to appeal no response we spoke to cab they unfortunately can’t do anything so we will need to go to Barnet with our disabilities not that they care and we are going to make a huge fuss. Disgusting behaviour

This council is full of uneducated institutional backward thinking people, God help you !!! if you need their help!

Corrupt at every level, because they are run by ego not knowledge!

If you are one bit more knowledgeable, they try and shut you down!
Barnet is being led by the blind leading the blind!

My girlfriend had suddenly been admitted to A&E and I rushed out to meet her. Having not eaten all day, I stopped on a single yellow with my hazard lights on to pick her up some food. When I returned to the car two minutes later (I have a tracker which shows the length of time the car was stopped for), the warden had already printed the ticket. I appealed to Barnet Council with the above explanation and proof at the same time citing their codes that, whilst a warden does not have to, it is good practice to give a grace period of 5 minutes. The council replied refusing my appeal on the basis that, in spite of the circumstances, the rules are the rules and, although advised to by their own guidance notes, a warden does not have to grant a grace period and that they would give a ticket to a disabled person if they had done the same thing. This is not strictly correct as single yellows may be used to load and unload. I am new to Barnet and have been left with a very sour taste having experienced this unsympathetic behaviour for an extremely minor 'offence', if any.

No recycling collection for the second week in our road. Can't get hold of anyone, automatic phone system tells me to report it online, online it says that no-one at the council provided a collection day for it road in the system and I should call the number, which tells me... to report it online and again just hangs up.

Tried different council numbers, I never reach a person. Only the automated system. Ridiculous.