[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Robin Smithett wrote: > > LANT do not have much choice about going for an "off the=20 > > shelf solution", as non-profit-making charity. If the people=20 > > of Evesham want more, they should help, not criticise.=20 > > Messages of support for the application from round the=20 > > country might also make the councillors think. > Nothing in the planning application, or in the discussion here, or in > the magazines suggests that this is the only affordable solution. > This is a highly visible location that deserves better than a > bog-standard chalet plonked down on a crude steel frame, and, unlike the > present structure, bearing no relationship to the sluice chamber below.
Without defending LANT's choice of design, a change from the the previous style has been forced on them by the need to raise the floor level a few feet to avoid the risk of it being flooded out again. Simply keeping the same A-frame shape but with higher floors would reduce the usable floor space by too much. That doesn't make their choice the 'only affordable solution' - but it does mean that objections based on decrying the change from the iconic 1970s structure might be unlikely to succeed. Martin
