SIR – Your front-page headline (T&A, September 9) indicates that the Forster Square Westfield site could have a companion at the junction of Thornton Road and Godwin Street.

So that may be another block of superfluous hotel rooms and vacant offices which won’t be built any time soon.

This now-moribund site could soon lie next to the heap of rubble which was once England’s last, provincial Art Deco super-cinema – the Odeon – whose demolition will proceed precisely because the people of this city want to see it preserved.

With the spreading encroachment of the totalitarian state, central and local governments must leave the people in no doubt as to who is the boss, by wilfully acting always against their wishes, especially where British history and heritage are concerned. Whatever happened to the plan to hack open City Hall and implant a glass, carbuncular outgrowth in the hole so created? Never mind, surely it is time to add another ‘artist’s impression’ to the long succession of those with which we have been regaled over the past few years.

However, to see future Bradford, I suggest an aerial photograph of Dresden, taken after the bombing and firestorm in 1945.

Noel A Shaw, Thornton Road, Thornton