City development
Sir,—Deborah Peek (March 10) makes a very valid point when she says that handsome traditional buildings and environs, once destroyed, can never be replaced. I feel Christchurch has had a surfeit of new buildings recently and it is time developers turned to preserving and sympathetically modernising the old. However, this probably will not happen while it is more profitable to tear down an old building and erect a new tower. Perhaps the City Council can come up with some incentives to encourage the retention of older buildings? I believe this is the case in Australia and the United Kingdom where great cachet is attached to historic, well-con-structed buildings. Rather than build “Victoria Towers” and gondolas why not revitalise “old Christchurch”? — Yours, etc., JOCELYN DAVISON. March 13, 1989.
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