COMMENT & ANALYSIS - Protect our city; Letters to the Editor.

Byline: Ian Chadwick

THE post front page of January 26 proclaimed: "NML seeks deal to save museum plan". So what's new?

Hopefully not this load of new junk. We have had rescue attempts for the trams, for which I am in favour. There was the atrocious Cloud which sank without trace thankfully, and now some sad people in NML wish to save a proposed nuclear bunker on the beautiful Liverpool waterfront.

Take some photographs quick everyone, before it is all lost forever.

The article continues, "... Liverpool is in danger of damaging its reputation unless it finally delivers on a piece of world-class modern architecture."

Do we therefore assume from this statement, that no matter what, Liverpool must accept any so-called modern piece of architecture?

Dominic Wilkinson, regional chairman of the Royal Institute of British Architects, warns that the city will be sniggered at, if people thought it "couldn't get a decent piece of architecture".

Has he not noticed the Three Graces, or all the other fine and beautiful buildings in and around Liverpool, or over on the Wirral side of the Mersey? Be progressive and modern certainly, but respect the heritage adjacent to that which you wish to develop, do not destroy what is already there, with a carbuncle, enhance it, most especially so if it is of World Heritage Status.

Ian Chadwick, Halewood