“ Its not the building that stops shops / business being there and it is not the reason why more people don't shop there. This just seems like a waste of money and destruction of a beautiful historic building.
You need to work on encouraging business back to the spires, lower the rents, sort out the parking and work with local businesses. Changing how the building looks (especially to something that will stick out like a swore thumb against Barnet's beautiful historic buildings) will not do this.
Please re-think this and spend the money elsewhere. ”