“ The Spires certainly needs redeveloping. I have always thought that the natural stone of the spires sits badly with the modern brick of the rotunda whilst the hideous 'stained glass' of the latter is just tasteless. It would be great to retain the spires but I think that the more modern design more suggestive of a shopping centre and, after all, the original planners had no qualms about demolishing the rest of the Methodist church...
Of course there might be a need to re-think the name of the centre if the spires go and that could offer the opportunity to give it a name from Barnet's long history to replace the 'heritage' aspect of two Victorian stone turrets. ”