HERE we go again! Centros Miller are not going to be satisfied until they have flattened the Piano Building as part of the Kidderminster town centre redevelopment.
It remains the only unlisted Brintons building that the planners asked them to preserve and was grudgingly given a stay of execution.
After all it is much easier and cheaper to chuck up some steel-framed, brick clad "units" than re-use existing structures.
If you are re-developing half of the other town centres in the country, buy in bulk and never mind if they all look similar as long as the cash rolls in. This policy of "flatten anything worth saving as quickly as possible" is exemplified by their removal of the yarn store next to Slingfield Mill.
It wasn't in the way of current work. The planners asked them to save it and with imagination it could have been re-used.
What have they left? An ugly asbestos-clad warehouse which is in no danger of having anyone trying to save it. That can be flattened at leisure when it is eventually in the way.
NICK AND JANICE WILLCOX
Sutton Park Road
Kidderminster
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