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Site Proposals document
Representation ID: 15104
Received: 21/03/2018
Respondent: George Mahood
Ugly, failed schemes litter Norwich, blighting its landscape with corporate monoliths where public space should be: Riverside, Chapelfield, Castle Mall. This Anglia Square plan is no better. Not enough supporting infrastructure exists (doctors, parks, schools etc). Enforced gentrification and wealthy "urban professional" influxes will devastate Magdalen Street's small businesses and nearby music and culture. Anglia Square's unique 20th century brutalist architecture should be protected and renovated. Any redevelopment should revitalise through encouraging small shops and businesses, not by enriching developers at the expense of Norwich's social/cultural/artistic/psychic life, and displacing current Square users (including many poor, vulnerable people with few alternatives).
Ugly, failed schemes litter Norwich, blighting its landscape with corporate monoliths where public space should be: Riverside, Chapelfield, Castle Mall. This Anglia Square plan is no better. Not enough supporting infrastructure exists (doctors, parks, schools etc). Enforced gentrification and wealthy "urban professional" influxes will devastate Magdalen Street's small businesses and nearby music and culture. Anglia Square's unique 20th century brutalist architecture should be protected and renovated. Any redevelopment should revitalise through encouraging small shops and businesses, not by enriching developers at the expense of Norwich's social/cultural/artistic/psychic life, and displacing current Square users (including many poor, vulnerable people with few alternatives).