IN REPLY to Councillor Mike Snelling’s letter (£150m Regeneration Is Essential To Area, News Shopper, September 24), I appreciate the source of most people’s objections concern the proposed 32-storey tower block.
I would seriously question whether a scheme so radical and so costly should be going ahead at all in the current financial climate.
The whole idea needs a root and branch re-think as to what is now currently suitable.
Are we really being serious in the attempt to draw shoppers from Bluewater, with its excellent road connections and almost unlimited parking, back to the restricted facilities offered in the centre of Gravesend?
Do we really want more cafes and restaurants when so many new ventures have closed in the past few years? Now to the proposed new residential accommodation.
I am of the opinion this is currently already going on in places such as Phoenix Parc, Springhead, Canal Basin, Southfields and Eastern Quarry.
Just what is so essential about supplying 620, or whatever the number is, new accommodation units in the centre of Gravesend?
Perhaps Councillor Lee Croxton is the one who is taking the most realistic approach in the current climate.
Martin Wilson
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