WE are now to be treated to an ugly, brash thrusting faade on the corner of High Ousegate and Spurriergate in York - to sell mobile phones.
Take a stroll along Coney Street towards St Helen's Square and you will pass seven mobile phone emporiums. Ignoring the fact that other stores along the same, short street also sell phones (eg Boots), let alone the rest of York, the question demanding an answer is why?
The cynical reply, of course, will be that competition is promoted to the benefit of the consumer. The above clearly demonstrates the market place is already at saturation point - the argument is therefore redundant.
This is just another episode in the crass-minded sanctioning of inappropriate projects by wanton, incompetent officialdom - vandals to you and me.
We need businesses that add value to the city by virtue of variety and respect for being allowed amongst 2,000 years of wonderful history.
Fred C Commons,
Ancress Walk,
York.
Updated: 10:46 Friday, March 03, 2006
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