I would love to agree with Owen Hatherley (Opinion August 2) that the British working class go to Benidorm because of the modernist architecture, but the reality is they put up with slab block hotels because they are affordable.

You don’t have to be Robert Adam to suggest that, given a larger pay packet, the majority of working men and women would prefer a mock traditional villa.

Simon Gill
London SW6

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