“ This is such a lovely building and an historical gem, the likes of which will never be built again. It would be nothing short of vandalism to knock it down. It is on the Heritage list! What is Barnet Council playing at, it seems as though they want to destroy the area. Barnet is being filled with ugly new flats and houses of no architectural merit whatsoever, all of which are very ugly. Developers are only interested in the money and think nothing of the aesthetics. It is all rather depressing when you look at the wholesale destruction going on. Surely the house itself could be saved and, as suggested, sympathetically converted into grand flats rather than yet more ugly new flats. ”