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I've written my thoughts on the YES front, but now my thoughts on the NO front:

The various heritage values of the building are so high that a young city, such as Preston, should want to plan things around this rather than the other way round, whether quickly or patiently.

However, whatever’s the council to think when it’s being misguided on the urban design front by a respectable masterplanner. So far the council has done so well to ditch the wider redevelopment plans. It must now surely ditch this venture and follow the thinking of a genuine [regional capital] city. The city should be actually revelling in having such an urbane feature. The bus station will be good for the county in the future should the government ever put roads on the map (on an even keel with rail), which may well happen yet, given the very steep upward graph of car ownership in the UK! The Preston bus station come car park would be a rather veritable UK Bus-Port given its centrality: a little like Perth is to Scotland, perhaps Preston can be to the rest of the UK, provided roads do ever take off...

If they do, in the future, if greed in rail can ever subside, what will the region’s grandchildren have to say when they’re compelled into rebuild such a necessary Goliath once again, having built one esteemed one once before?