I agree with you all... what a load of bollox!
Although I would like to add that we're all free to lodge our objections at the planning department where they shall endeavour to transcribe it onto thier pads, photocopy it and file it for future reference
The site as it is is atrocious I think! It's just a hing oot for all the alchy and junkie bastards of the day! Something should be done! I've got nothing against a piece of modern architecture being sited there, but not something thats been regurgetated so many times that it looks nothing more than architectural bile! The "glass box" concept has a lot to friggin answer for
Fossy... that design is class! The Crankees are a great touch!!
This is of the cross in the late 1850'6
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The Tolbooth was demolished in the 1920's, and the medievil steeple was only saved after it was agreed to curve the facade of the new building to ease the flow of traffic into High St... a theme I also would like to see continued on the other side.
I also remember a while back a proposal to build a high rise, luxury apartment development atop McChuills in High St, never heard anything more tho