Barnet Homes’ registered provider, Opendoor Homes, is well underway with its new build development plans for 320 affordable homes for rent in Barnet by 2020. Behind every development there’s a fascinating story for history enthusiasts…
Historical analysis of the Burnt Oak Registry Office site, set to become 30 new affordable homes for rent, has revealed that transformation is not a new concept for the area.
The former Registry Office is on a section of the Edgware Road which has been found to have originally been a Roman road, proving there has been a settlement in the area for millennia.
In the 1880s, Burnt Oak was provided with a tin hut for use as a church and an elementary school and with a few more shops a small thriving community began.
The area remained predominantly rural until the 1920s when the London Underground station opened and the London County Council bought land to build 4,000 homes.
By the 1930s, the population of the Burnt Oak ward had grown to 21,545 people.
In more recent times, the site was passed into the control of the Middlesex County Council, and was rebuilt as Edgware Community Hospital, later the Redhill Public Assistance Institution and then Redhill Hospital.
The former Redhill Hospital buildings have now been demolished and replaced with housing, and the former Barnet Register Office stands at the front of the site.
Burnt Oak Registry Office
- 30 affordable homes for rent
- 4 two-bedroom accessible flats
- 18 two-bedroom flats
- 8 one-bedroom flats
- Due to be completed Spring 2020