“ You don’t have to be particularly bright to see what is effecting the High Street.
Poor footfall
High rents and
Enormous Business rates
Free parking for 1 hour will make a difference. Just do it for three months Barnet Council and monitor the changes.
The Spires car park owners must be shamed into reduce their charges too.
Greedy landlords also need to be named and exposed.
Barnet Council should provide Business Rate Tax relief for new businesses.
We should get behind this as a community to make these changes happen or suffer the consequences which will be the eventual demise of the High Street and Barnet - all of us. ”