[QUOTE=Neil;404398 I don't particularly like it now, it is too empty and definitely needs more seating. I suspect the lack of seating is by design to try and stop groups of kids/drunks handing around.[/QUOTE]
Exactly Neil, remember all the people that used to loiter on the planters and loitering is seen as 'anti-social' behaviour. Would suspect that the shop owners pressed the case for no benches to discourage the hoody brigade.
Also the possibility that benches are extra clutter on the street which might not have fitted with the original designers 'vision'. Another point could be that benches could prove difficult for near-sighted/blind people to negotiate and the new Disability Discrimination Act might be relevant here, but all these are just my assumptions.
Agree, is a shame that there aren't more, and when I can eventually afford to retire, would be lovely to loiter on the benches talking to other pensioners and whittle my time away watching the world go by .. in the sun one hopes ...
