Eddy Rhead
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Comment on: Robert Adam unveils Reading towers scheme
Louis Sullivan will be spinning in his grave.
Comment on: Government to sell off Planning Portal
This is sure to end well.
Comment on: Pathfinder II: Liverpool gives go-ahead to flatten 440 houses
How depressing.
Comment on: Robert Adam unveils 'traditional' village expansion
The Truman Show
Comment on: Critics hit out at Ian Simpson's St Peters Square office plans
The English Heritage statement is baffling. They are correct that St Peter's Square was envisaged as a grand civic space but that was a plan devised back in the 1930's and it included a large City Hall building - a public amenity. To use a unrealised idea from 80 years ago to justify a decision is just bonkers.
Beside that - this isnt creating a civic space and 'realising that ambition'. This is just another unnecessary commercial development and i think English Heritage, MCC and Simpson really dont understand what is meant by 'civic space'. I also fail to see what 'public benefits' there are to yet another commercial development in a city which has acres of unlet office space - much of it just yards from St Peters Square.
