MEMBERS of Durham County Council seem to be experts at destroying an historic city.
I wonder if the distinctly non-historic Gala complex, as well as other recent builds, will be pulled down in 30 years considering they’ve been built in the same modern vein as that monstrous money furnace known as County Hall ?
Why build a concrete jungle and follow a ridiculous business hub ideal? The traffic impact will be enormous regardless of the extra bypasses (most probably bus lanes) and, no doubt, the toll will be extended in the city centre, too.
Durham should be a small, quirky tourist-based city, playing on the cathedral it’s been blessed with. But that will never be, while County Hall wants to turn the place into a visionary ideal of an un-British, modern, European-styled city.
Why don’t they just go the whole hog and demolish the cathedral, replacing it with a huge statue of Tony Blair?
Tom Topper, Brandon.
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