WITH regard to the article on pages 2 & 3 of the Daily Echo dated March 14 referring to the new development at Woolston Riverside. I am querying why we need 1960s tower blocks (instant slums) when we have been trying to get rid of them elsewhere in the country. I realise that architects like them because there is less work involved i.e. design ground floor, 1st floor and roof and repeat other floors as 1st floor. Of course the design engineers have to design the frame and the foundations and floors for which they receive a very small fee compared to architects fees. If we must have high rise blocks of flats cannot we employ foreign architects say from Italy, they seem to have much more imagination in design.
RAE TILLY, Totton, Southampton.
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