Oppressive, inane and a commercial disaster

It was. We were discussing it half an hour later, on the way home.

To have opposed the arcade for five years implies that we are unlikely to be unprepared. I emphasise that we do not oppose for the sake of opposing, nor because we can think of nothing else to occupy our time. When Trilogy produced appropriate and imaginative plans for Ford’s Foundry they were supported.

The Clarendon Arcade is banal, cramped, grossly over-large, oppressive, environmentally inane and obviously set to be commercially disastrous, if not in itself (which I expect), then certainly for the rest of the town. - R.P. Taylor, St Mary’s Terrace, Leamington.