Finchley Lakeside offers the opportunity to:

• Create a unique, mixed-use neighbourhood with a focus for people and nature around the beautiful lakeside environment;
• Bring benefits to the surrounding community and connect with nearby amenities, including Finchley Central and local shops and restaurants;
• Provide high quality, energy efficient homes, with a mix of affordable and for sale apartments and houses in attractively landscaped settings of different characters;
• Provide for enterprise and leisure space including investigating the viability of repurposing the eastern office building with a vibrant mix of ground floor maker, community and cultural uses with lakeside café and homes above;
• Incorporate safe, new pedestrian and cycle routes through the site and a car club serving local residents.

 These are just some of the ideas to emerge at the Finchley Lakeside Community Co-design Event held on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 June 2025 at the former Pentland lakeside campus. The event, attended by around 500 people, was run by JTP on behalf of Pentland and gave the community the opportunity to share local knowledge and help co-create a new Vision for Finchley Lakeside.

“Finchley Lakeside could provide a stepping off point for lots of shared activities!”

 Following the public workshop days, the JTP-led team analysed and summarised the outcomes and drew up a Vision for Finchley Lakeside, including an illustrative masterplan. The Vision was reported back to the local community on the evening of Tuesday 1 July with an exhibition the following afternoon and evening, Wednesday 2 July. See Downloads for more information.

Following the report back of the Vision for Finchley Lakeside, the Pentland design team will continue to have ongoing discussions through the summer with Barnet Council and GLA on the masterplan proposal. In autumn 2025, the project will pause to enable Pentland to decide on the next steps. The local community will be provided with an update towards the end of this year or early in 2026.

In 2024, Pentland moved from its Lakeside Office Campus, Squires Lane to new offices in Central London. The former office campus now offers the opportunity to create a unique place for living, commercial, community and cultural activities, all within a beautiful lakeside setting, bringing positive benefits to the wider community.

Having been deeply rooted in the Finchley community since the mid-1980s, Pentland is committed to engaging with local neighbours and partners to shape the exciting next chapter for the site.

To ensure the community is fully and meaningfully involved, Pentland appointed architects and urban designers JTP to facilitate a community planning process. There have been a variety of ways to take part including the online JTP Engages online interactive map, the in-person Co-design Event in June 2025 and the Report Back Event in July 2025.

Following the report back of the Vision for Finchley Lakeside, the Pentland design team will continue to have ongoing discussions through the summer with Barnet Council and GLA on the masterplan proposal. In autumn 2025, the project will pause to enable Pentland to decide on the next steps. The local community will be provided with an update towards the end of this year or early in 2026.