The council originally met at the board room of the Barnet Union Workhouse at 17 Wellhouse Lane in Barnet, holding its first meeting there on 3 January 1895, when John Osmond, a farmer from Totteridge, was appointed the council's first chairman.

[7] The council continued to meet at the workhouse (later Wellhouse Hospital) until 1929, when the board room and committee rooms were needed to provide extra space for the hospital.

[8] The council left Barnet and found new offices in Borehamwood, which was rapidly developing into a small town, associated with the growth of Elstree Studios there.

The council acquired a former Baptist Chapel at 1 Station Road, which had been built in 1894 and had briefly served as Borehamwood's first cinema, "The Gem", between 1914 and c. 1917.

The council's former offices at 84 Shenley Road were redeveloped shortly afterwards to become a Tesco supermarket, which in turn became a cinema and leisure complex in the late 1990s.