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Originally Posted by Gayle
I agree that there has never been an argument about the NEED for regeneration but what I'm asking you to do is look at the discussions from an outsiders perspective and it does seem negative. For instance - we agree that Broadway needs rejuvenating but everyone (including myself) is continually having a go at the way it's being done. Add that to the negativity about the Panopticon project and the discussions about project phoenix and you can see how people may get the wrong impression.
Now I can see that it's not the same people arguing against all of the projects but taking things as a whole there does give the appearance of a resistence to change and to regeneration.
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I think it's individual projects that are, and have been criticised, not regeneration in the area per se.
The Pantopican being the most visible and high profile, and the one that received the most public critisism.
Broadway?
Relatively expensive, shoddily designed and implemented. Very unimaganitive. New design can be good, this was just bad, as well as not having any bearing to it's locality. We, as tax payers have every right to critique it.
Clearing Victorian stone built terraced houses, which in more forward thinking areas of the country are being improved and renovated, and which are seen as an asset, being replaced with inferior new buildings, is in my mind shortsighted. As can be exampled by the demolition of the twenty year old houses at Church. Which coincidentally were built on the site of demolished Victorian terraced houses.