OPEN SPACES.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16428, 23 January 1919, Page 2

OPEN SPACES.

TO THE EDITOR. OF "THE BBESS. Sir —The belief is almost forced upon us that, there are some people who really dislike to see open spaces and grass in the citv. If it is proposed to Id a Town Hall or any otiier public buildin", we immediately have letters m the papers suggesting some of these green places as sites—V ictoria square, Latimer square, and even the banks of the river Surely there are enough ramshackle buildings in Chr.stehurchthat could be pulled down to make sites tor all the suggested buildings, with grass sown round them, without destroying the few green spots we have. If we lose those we already possess, it is possible 1 hat, as the city grows, we mi"ht have to pull down buildings -n orcfer to make more. , ~ ... There is one other point I should like to meition. It must be evident to everybody that it is quite usdess to euseest that any monument should ue placed in Cathedral square lor any purpose, until the trams and everything pertaining to them have been cleared out of it. Can anyone suppose that there can ever be a.ny dignity or beauty in this Square under its present conditions?— Yours, etc., KEEP THE GOOD AND DESTROY THE EVIL. January 22nd, 1919.