City Hall questions
Dear Editor Sir – Has anyone seen a credible business plan for Perth’s City Hall?
Councillors should have scrutinised the estimates of the numbers of people likely to visit this proposed venue and backed up with robust evidence of other tourist attractions’ numbers.
How much will the operating costs and renewals cost our hard-pressed budgets?
We don’t need yet another drain on council budgets such as we suffer from our enormous Concert Hall.
The new and huge theatre we’ll be obliged to support will soon add to that £3miilion pa burden of the Concert Hall.
Can Perth and Kinross continue to add all these non-essential burdens? Shouldn’t our schools and care for the infirm be greater priorities?
Moreover, the City Hall represents the council’s fourth foray into commercial catering and retailing.
They each lose money whilst taking trade from taxpaying local businesses.
How much trade is our Council expecting to divert from local business and their employees?
Waste is an issue for council teams in Perth
Councillors don’t know the future liabilities they’ve apparently agreed to. Nor does anyone else. It’s time there was a thorough investigation and report on the financial and competitive implications of this re-development. Before any further commitments are made.
Andrew Dundas Perth
Dear Editor Re your article (Perthshire Advertiser, Friday, June 23, City Hall) - Am I the only one who thinks that none of the designs put forward are of any merit?
Most of these concepts have great swathes of glass taking up entrances or side walls of the building.
I fail to see what attraction there is in that, given that the Concert Hall and many other Perth buildings look like much the same.
All very generic, unfortunately.
When it comes to culture vultures like myself, we don’t judge a book by its cover. F Wighton by email Displays for the building concepts are now finished, but the designs are prompting questions