Town Hall Plans
Sir,—A library on the Civic Theatre site would be within three minutes of Cathedral
Square. It would also- be surrounded by ugly buildings in a gloomy, noisy street It is six minutes walk from Cathedral Square to the Kil-
more-Durham Street corner. A magnificent plan is sacrificed for three minutes. The new scheme creates a compressed site, dominated by the administration building, and, ultimately, ruled by traffic flowing along a revived Victoria Street This Is unacceptable. A road separating the civic buildings from Victoria Square destroys the balance and inter-relation-ship, between the two elements carefully established in Professor Stephenson’s plan. Problems require site changes, not mutiliation. The site proposed for the administration building (five minutes walk from the Square) may be suitable for the library. A truly complete civic centre needs the library, and completion of the project’s second stage. It does not need crass destruction of the original design.—Yours, etc., J. A. HOPKINS. October 22, 1969,
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32126, 23 October 1969, Page 14
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