I WORK in Southampton and eagerly await some improvement in the city to match the developmemts in recent years in Portsmouth.
Thus, I couldn't believe yet more sub-standard proposals for new buildings in Southampton as shown in the Daily Echo last week.
The July 19 edition showed an artist's impression of the medical centre proposed for the Sun Inn site, and yet another photograph shows the proposed new development on the site of The Saints pub.
After the cost and work involved a few years ago in putting pitched roofs on the previously flat-roofed flats at Millbrook/Redbridge, which improved the appearance of those buildings 100-fold, how can any developer now be proposing ugly and high-maintenance flat roofs for these new buildings mentioned above?
It seems like a huge step backwards for the city. Please give us some attractive architecture instead of the 60s-style concrete structures currently proposed.
S GODDEN, Salisbury.
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