Crass and vulgar

How crass, how vulgar, and how ‘‘trumpian’’ , the front-page illustration of the proposed hotel on Worcester Boulevard, crouching as it does above that brave little brick (Georgian?) Worcester Chambers.

I do not necessarily always agree with heritage advocate Ross Gray but I do have huge admiration for his sincerity, his persistence and the persuasive arguments which he and his cohort have deployed to achieve outcomes later generations are going to thank him for.

And how patronising and demeaning of the wealthy Gough family to dismiss Gray and his supporters as the ‘‘antibrigade’’; I suppose they also label conservationists as ‘‘greenies’’ or ‘‘tree-huggers’’. How wonderfully out of touch with the zeitgeist.

Anton Coberger, Christchurch neighbours intriguing and energetic (will it be the best in New Zealand?).

The library will be part of our new routine to while away an hour or two. Naysayers will no doubt find the next thing to grizzle about . . . maybe about how consumers’ improved physical and psychological health, and cheerfulness, irritate their fixed view of our very small corner of the world. Tazmin Marriott, Cashmere

CECC’s immoral version of freedom, productivity and growth only extends to the big end of town. Vulnerable working people and their children are dehumanised as either economic units of skilled labour or demonised as unskilled welfare statistics. David Marra, Linwood

A concept plan for a hotel incorporating the little brick Worcester Chambers, described by a letter writer as ‘‘trumpian’’.