Performance venue needs infrastructure
ON reading Zena Hawley’s article about the new performance venue surely most of the residents of Derby, especially those of us who have had to travel to Nottingham for decades to get any standard of live performance, it is obvious that the Becketwell area is the wrong place (“The wrong building in the wrong location”, September 7).
So the city’s conservation area advisory committee and six architects agree. However, throughout the article not once was the surrounding infrastructure mentioned.
Large productions with big casts or very big stars have large convoys of kit. Where will all these lorries park? Where will bus trip coaches park? How long will those who come by car have to queue around Victoria Street or Macklin Street to park where?
This is the exact issue for the rebuilding of the Hippodrome. The area is not suitable without major changes to the roads in the area. You can not expect everyone to arrive and depart by bus.
Derby is desperate for some sort of quality live entertainment in a building that is fit for purpose; the Assembly Rooms were not. How we can be a City of Culture without such a venue is to me an embarrassment.
Chris Eddison, Mickleover