Architects from Hawkins Brown are among more than 400 figures from the creative industries who have written to the government today warning the UK could become a “cultural wasteland” without urgent financial support.

David Bickle and Hazel York, partners at the practice, plus RIBA chief executive Alan Vallance have signed the letter organised by the Creative Industries Federation (CIF), along with household names such as Stephen Fry, PJ Harvey, Grayson Perry and Meera Syal as well as the directors of institutions from the Tate and Royal Northern College of Music to Penguin Books and Jerwood Arts.

Sarah Weir, chief executive of the Design Council, Design Museum director Tim Marlow, Harriet Forde, president of the British Institute of Interior Design, and Jasmine Whitbread, chief executive of London First, are also among the signatories.

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