As a Prestoner, born and bred, and with my father presiding over the previous application to redevelop the city centre (director of planning), which involved the building’s demolition, I can safely say I am against the demolition of Preston bus station (Debate December 14, 2012).
I agree it will be both costly and difficult to adapt and repair such a building, but the alternative loss is much worse to the historic context of Preston’s architecture.
There are relics covering the great tapestry of buildings — a church with one of the highest spires in the country, made from surplus stone railway sleepers, one of the last back-to-back terrace streets which had no outside toilets, a James Stirling housing prototype and the new Brockholes wetland centre. But there are also the atrocities you find in other towns.
Although costly, this building must be retained. But incidentally, it is quite impractical as a bus station — being at the opposite end of town from the train station.
Sarah Gay
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