Another pipe dream? (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Another pipe dream?

8:34am Thursday 11th March 2010 in

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SIR – It was interesting to read of the suggested temporary landscaping of the now notorious Broadway/Forster Square development (T&A, March 5).

Moth-balled it may be, but the alternative put forward certainly conjures up the image of a beautiful park – the sort of thing this city desperately needs.

Of course, this again could turn out to be “pie in the sky” like the bomb-site it is meant to replace, and never take off at all.

However, if an attractive landscaped alternative can be produced and, as we have already witnessed in Bradford so many times before, “temporary” is allowed to become “permanent” thanks to the usual institutional negligence, then perhaps it should be allowed to remain just that – permanent.

The irony would be that Forster Square would merely revert to what it was not so long ago – a central leafy arbour where people could relax on a summer’s day – and the whole sorry Westfield saga would have been avoided – if the proposed development was ever necessary in the first place.

Also this would facilitate the much touted cross-city railway link-up.

Derek Mozley, Moorhead Terrace, Shipley