IN allowing yet another drinking establishment (the Trevor Osborne project), have the aesthetic consequences been considered?

Whatever time of night the bars disgorge their clientele, a major homeward route will be through Bournemouth’s beautiful Lower Gardens, once the town’s pride and still valiantly maintained by dedicated parks staff.

How long would the flower beds remain untrashed by drunken revellers, the bushes and greenery unsoiled by vomit and worse, and the general furniture and bandstand unvandalised?

The whole development’s a recipe for disaster.

As readers of the Daily Echo rage against the Imax obstructing mythical views, and wind farms obliterating the skyline, I have not read anyone complaining that this Ziggurat will be a similar blot on the landscape.

I am not normally over-critical of adventurous architecture, but this is in the wrong place.

The building may be likened to a Monty Pythonesque foot-slamming down derisively on the very heart of Bournemouth – the mouth of the Bourne Stream, and the reason why the town first came into existence 200 years ago.

As scheme after scheme trot out the unnecessary recipe of cafes, cinema screens and bars, all fail to materialise; one can only hope that this too will be buried.

Perhaps the current recession will yield one good thing – namely the abandonment of the whole project.

Would it not be far better to take this opportunity to dig up the car park and return the site into a spectacular extension to the Lower Gardens, enhancing the Listed Grade II Pavilion, giving a welcoming transitional landscape as visitors enter the beach environment?

It would cost far less than the prospect of continual maintenance and policing of the area because of the night time economy.

JOHN CRESSWELL St Catherine’s Road, Bournemouth