Grotesque feature (From York Press)
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Grotesque feature
10:00am Friday 10th February 2012 in Letters
I AM so pleased to read of plans (Soapbox, February 6) to demolish the grotesque feature of the “splash palace”.
I quite agree with what Trevor Richardson has to say, in particular that planning permission should never have been granted for it is the wrong building in the wrong place.
It could be described as being a “temple of convenience”, which might have featured in Lady Lucinda Lambton’s book of that name. Although I hardly feel she would have praised the structure for it has proved difficult to maintain, is scruffy and mostly smells appallingly.
There always have been toilets in the area, but they were below ground level and discreet in their signage.
Perhaps a return could be made to such, leaving ground level for other features.
Barry Mercer, The House Designers, The Ropery, Pickering.
Comments(3)
sensationalism
says...
5:00pm Fri 10 Feb 12
We'll have over-amplified South American pan-pipes and their dreadful backing tracks spilling in every direction, instead of just Parliament St.
Brickyard
says...
4:31pm Sun 12 Feb 12
sensationalism wrote:Pan pipes, they fit in don't they, with a toilet.
One useful function of this building, that I think has not yet been commented upon, is in providing a sound barrier between the performance area on Parliament St where bands play, and the popular busking pitch on Ousegate.
We'll have over-amplified South American pan-pipes and their dreadful backing tracks spilling in every direction, instead of just Parliament St.
Hicarrumba says...
12:40pm Fri 10 Feb 12
What the hell is wrong with looking after it, its got a name, even tourists took photographs of it and still do thinking that its part of the furniture of York. Demolished and made into what, seating for Feral Youth to swear at tourists?
Yeah its a rant, I think the money could be well spent somewhere else.