SIR – I think the lottery money will be well spent refurbishing Gheluvelt Park, Worcester, and understand the delight of local people.
What I think is a sheer waste of money is the hideous Battle of Gheluvelt sculpture that is proposed. I vented my feelings on this score some time ago and hoped it would be a nightmare that would go away.
£33,000 for that! I don’t object to a sculpture, but surely someone could have come up with something more appealing.
Schoolchildren could have come up with something far better.
It will be used in the wrong way – mark my words. As it looks like a urinal that’s what it will be used for by the pranksters and far worse.
Who designed it? Colin Burdan is project leader but is he responsible for the resulting piece? A committee must have passed the plans. Were they all wearing rose coloured spectacles?
I think it’s a huge mistake, as it will prove.
Why couldn’t it have been a statue?
SHIRLEY MASTERMAN,
Worcester.
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