I AM sure many Guardian readers will have done a double take at the bizarre CGI image on page two (Warrington Guardian, January 26).
It depicted the vision for the former pub turned eyesore, The Packet House. The question is, who allowed it?
The Packet House is indeed an eyesore at present, and it has cynically been allowed to deteriorate to its present condition.
What maintenance has been carried out since 1980? None.
I read your mystery columnist’s opinion that ‘Warrington has lost most of its crown jewels, including this one’.
The futuristic six-storey vision for the former Packet House is surely the stuff of nightmares and what King Charles would call a ‘monstrous carbuncle’ if he were still the Prince of Wales.
I am sure most Warrington residents would agree.
The columnist’s fondness for Noam Chomsky should perhaps be coupled by the words of Oscar Wilde, who defined a cynic as ‘one who knows the cost of everything and value of nothing’.
TIM CLEWORTH
Warrington
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