offices in London, to Northampton. Whilst one of the conditions on the new tenants was that they would have to spend £1.5 million modernising the building, the Council granted a five-year rent-free period in exchange. In 1986, as the five-year period was coming to an end, Lummus announced plans to pull out of the UK and the offices once again became vacant. Barclaycard agreed to take the lease of the top floor of the building the same year, later taking on the whole three floors in 1987. A decade later, however, Barclaycard also left the building in a move which cost the Council an estimated £1,800,000 (1998 figures) in rental income. The office space remained empty until the building was closed on 2 March 2014. In 2007, the 300-space first floor car park was closed, albeit temporarily, over concerns that chemicals were leaking through the upper stories of the building and causing damage to vehicles parked in the car park below. The car park later reopened although closed for good a year later after the Council were unwilling to make the investment (reported at the time to be on the order of £250,000) to rectify the situation. Services The main operators at Greyfriars Bus Station were Stagecoach, Centrebus, Uno and Meridian Buses. There were some smaller operators who also used the facility. Buses ran from the bus station all around the town and went as far afield as Milton Keynes, Bedford, Peterborough, Leicester, Rugby and Bicester. National Express Coaches also operated to Northampton on routes serving many other parts of the country. Services included a travel centre, operated by Stagecoach, as well as a newsagent, public toilets, optician, hairdressers, barber shop and a large cafe. Closure As the bus station was below both Greyfriars House and the car park, only a small amount of natural light reached the concourse, which did not help the building's reputation. The building was listed in a survey carried out by The Guardian for Channel 4's Demolition series, as the third most hated building in Britain and dubbed "the mouth of Hell". In 2009, Northampton Borough Council announced plans to redevelop the bus station along with the neighbouring Grosvenor Centre. The plan proposed moving the bus station to a new site, and then extending the Grosvenor Centre on to the cleared land. In September 2011 it was announced that the site of the former Fish